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Bookmark this pageBlade Runner (1982)
Director: Ridley Scott
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From Time Out Film Guide
An ambitious and expensive adaptation of one of Philip K Dick's best novels (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), with Ford as the cop in 2019 Los Angeles whose job is hunting mutinous androids that have escaped from the off-world colonies. The script has some superb scenes, notably between Ford and the (android) femme fatale Young, while Scott succeeds beautifully in portraying the LA of the future as a cross between a Hong Kong street-market and a decaying 200-storey Metropolis. But something has gone badly wrong with the dramatic structure: the hero's voice-over and the ending feel as if they've strayed in from another movie, and the android villains are neither menacing nor sympathetic, when ideally they should have been both. This leaves Scott's picturesque violence looking dull and exploitative.Author: DP
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- aaron said...
- Posted on May 30 2008 12:35 I don't know whar film you were watching but menacing AND sypathetic were exactly what Rutger Hauer was, as he was the most intelligent replicant he could transcend the survival mode the others were in, realise the value of life, empathise with Ford as another soul struggling to survive and save Ford's life
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- terry said...
- Posted on Sep 28 2007 19:04 This film is my forever favorite. The music is also still the best soundtrack.
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Cast & crew
Director: Ridley Scott
Producer: Michael Deeley
Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah full cast
Genre(s): Science Fiction
Duration: 117 mins
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