I never saw Blade Runner prior to a day ago.
It was good. It takes place in a futuristic cyberpunk dystopia where a corporation has developed these entities called replicants, which are humans with their own set of genes and memories that are built to work for their corporation. They did not intend them to have emotions, but they ended up developing them anyway. Four of them escaped to Earth, which is not allowed, and a retired cop named Deckard was contracted to hunt them down by the police.
It’s not as unique in the modern age because the cyberpunk and speculative fiction genres took off, but it still holds up to the tastes of modern viewers. Some critics thought it was slow paced, but I thought the pacing was largely fine. If anything, I wish they cut out less content from the film.
I went into this movie fairly cold, and had no idea that there was a debate over whether Deckard was human or a replicant, which is funny; I speculated that they would end up revealing in a twist that he was a replicant, but they never did and left it ambigious as to whether he was or was not. I think him being a replicant makes more sense: it fits better with the ending, there are a few scenes where Decker should have died, and his backstory is possible to fake.
Nothing about how breathtakingly beautiful every shot is?
Do the sequel next