Based on Philip K. Dick's sci-fi classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Blade Runner is a dark film set in the not-too-distant future that asks the question: What does is mean to be alive?
Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner whose job it is to "retire" Replicants - robots built to look exactly like humans and perform less-than-desirable functions in society. The problem is, however, that sometimes the Replicants get a little too attached to existence and aren't willing to go without a fight. Rutger Hauer plays Roy Batty, a soldier Replicant who leads a mutiny that results in some human casualties prompting the Corporation to task Deckard with "retiring" Batty and his gang of rogue Replicants. In the course of the job Deckard must not only confront this formidable force but also his own self.
The film is beautifully shot and set in Los Angeles in 2019, a city whose street language is a combination of English, Spanish, and Japanese, and whose architecture is a nightmarish blend of Neo-Gothic, Bauhaus, and Modernism. It is not only an excellent adaptation of Dick's novel but also a masterpiece of film.
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