BLADE RUNNER (1982)
CAST
Harrison Ford .... Rick Deckard
Rutger Hauer .... Roy Batty
Sean Young .... Rachael
Edward James Olmos .... Gaff
M. Emmet Walsh .... Bryant
Daryl Hannah .... Pris
William Sanderson .... J.F. Sebastian
Brion James .... Leon Kowalski
Joe Turkel .... Eldon Tyrell
Joanna Cassidy .... Zhora
Directed by Ridley Scott
Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples
Based on the novel 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Philip K Dick
SYNOPSIS
Rick
Deckard (Harrison Ford), ex-cop, ex-bladerunner, ex-killer, is forced by the
police
boss to return to his former profession of Replicant Hunter.
He is assigned to eliminate four Replicants who fled the slavery of the colonies
and came to Earth. Before starting the job Deckard visits the Tyrell Corporation
where he meets Rachel, a Replicant girl created as an experiment, with whom he
will fall in love
REVIEW
I don't want to make any bones about this - Blade Runner is a work of genius, pure and simple. While it may take some liberties with Dick's original novel (and what film does not), the heart of the story and many of its questions about identity remain intact. Add to that, the fact that it is an engrossing mystery (SF noir at its best) with an intelligent script and well drawn characters.
Harrison Ford is as
reliable as ever, bringing a world weariness to Deckard that is essential to the
story while Sean Young is a mixture of sophistication and innocent bewilderment
as Rachel. Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy, Brion James and Rutger Hauer are
magnificent as
the replicants - swinging from childlike naïveté to astonishing
violence in seconds. 
Hauer, in particular, hold the entire film together.
His final scene has got to be one of the most moving ever caught on film and
never fails to bring a lump to my throat.
The production design is a faultless mixture of garish neon and decaying grandeur - you can really believe that this is how the cities of the future will look.
All in all, Blade Runner certainly deserves its position as one of the greatest SF films of all time, especially as it is a true SF film, not popcorn fodder like Armageddon or the new version of War of the Worlds. It deals with deep concepts and forces the viewer to ask questions other than 'when are we going to get the nest big explosion'.
10/10
LINKS
The Replicant Site
Blade Runner Resource
Blade Runner on-line