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Ridley Scott is known for his dark films, and Blade Runner may be his darkest in terms of its cinematography. But I thought that the whole thing was an exersise in futility. The cop does his job, kills the replicants, and gets the girl. I must say that I really didn't feel any sympathy for the replicants, I felt the idea that Harrisson Ford's character might be a replicant was way underdeveloped, and the fact that they just let him keep the replicant in the end didn't make sense. I thought this film in general, and Harrison Ford's character in particular, as just not going anywhere. Some people say that it is a bleak insight to the future, but in that case, can't you give us a little insight into the characters of the replicants, instead of making them all typecast? And they all do so much despicable stuff, that you can't help but feel glad when they all die. I know that this film is considered a sci-fi classic, but I found Speilberg's Minority Report to be much more interesting.
4/10
Ridley Scott is known for his dark films, and Blade Runner may be his darkest in terms of its cinematography. But I thought that the whole thing was an exersise in futility. The cop does his job, kills the replicants, and gets the girl. I must say that I really didn't feel any sympathy for the replicants, I felt the idea that Harrisson Ford's character might be a replicant was way underdeveloped, and the fact that they just let him keep the replicant in the end didn't make sense. I thought this film in general, and Harrison Ford's character in particular, as just not going anywhere. Some people say that it is a bleak insight to the future, but in that case, can't you give us a little insight into the characters of the replicants, instead of making them all typecast? And they all do so much despicable stuff, that you can't help but feel glad when they all die. I know that this film is considered a sci-fi classic, but I found Speilberg's Minority Report to be much more interesting.
4/10