Review of Blade Runner (1982) by Michael H — 04 Jan 2015
**Director's Final Cut**.
Drenched in neon and endless rain, Ridley Scott's striking noir private-eye picture of a dystopian future L.A. landed with a damp thud when it arrived in theaters in 1982. All's well that ends well, though. The adaptation of the Philip K. Dick novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" has acquired a devoted following over the years, and is universally and rightly acknowledged as a classic today. Unforgivingly grim and brilliantly plotted, this is a look at a future in which bio-engineered robots called "replicants" are used for interplanetary work and are banned on Earth. Blade Runner follows the weary path of a runner named Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) who is lured out of retirement in 2019 to retire a small band of replicants hiding in Los Angeles. Blade runner has been immortalized by its followers and the film's eye-gouging symbolism and the script's struggle to determine what makes us human.
This review of Blade Runner (1982) was written by Michael H on 04 January 2015.
Blade Runner has generally received very positive reviews.
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