Blade Runner (English - 1982)

Blade Runner is a 1982 Sci-Fi moive directed by Ridley Scott starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Haeur and Sean Young in the leading roles. The plot happens in 2019, when there are the offworld colonies where genetically engineered androids (Replicants) are employed in hazardous enviornments. Tyrell Corporation, a leading genetic engineering firm develops a superior version of androids called Nexus 6 which have better emotions and intelligence. But their lifetime is kept as 4 years as a safety measure to avoid emotional developments leading to any sort of uprising. But the inevitable happens, and they were declared illegal and were ordered to be officially terminated. This process known as "Retirement" was carried out by a special group of police personnels named "Blade Runners".



Harrison Ford plays the role of a retired Blade Runner brought back to trace down and retire a group of some dangerous Nexus-6 Replicants. Following the information that these Replicants may try to attack Tyrell Corporation, he visits the company and meets Sean Young. She is another Replicant, but a better one which had undergone memory implants and she strongly believes she is a human. Based on the clues available, Ford starts chasing the Replicants and hunts down them one by one. Once he was saved by Sean after which both of them enter into a relationship. Rutger Haeur plays the role of the lead Nexus Replicant and both him and Ford will have a fierce fight towards the end of the movie. Ford was brutally attacked and when he attempted to jump from one building to another, he falls down but manages to hold on a slippery pipe. As he was about to fall down, the Nexus saves him and tells him about the plight of being a slave. This shows the level of intelligents the replicant has. And by the end of that conversation, the replicant's life is over and it retires. Ford then comes back to his place worried about Sean Young, but she is alive and both of them leave the place to a safer location.

My Rating : Good (***)