Blast From the Past - Blade Runner : Review

A movie that came out one month after I was born and to this day still is considered the one movie that was made before its time. A Ridley Scott film based on the Philip K. Dick novel, Blade Runner is the ultimate futuristic Sci-Fi film.

In the near future man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones/robots with a limited life-span, used to serve in the colonies outside Earth. Rick Deckard is a cop who is assigned to terminate replicants, known as a Blade Runner. Deckard is called out of retirement when four replicants escape from the colonies to find their creator for the wish of eternal life.

Besides the Star Wars series, this is my favorite movie featuring Harrison Ford. I know what you might say "What about Indiana Jones?", well sure he will always be Indiana too but at least in this movie he wasn't named after the dog. Blade Runner is quite possible one of the best Sci-Fi films ever made. The special effects in the film still to this day dumb-found me and I usually can tell when something is fake. The film has one of the best lines ever at the end of the film, which makes you consider what life is all about. ( Hell, the special speaker at my high school graduation quoted it. )


"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die."

By Matt Alexander
5/14/2007