Review of Blade Runner (1982) by Nick E — 11 Mar 2013

One of my favorite films of all time. The visuals in blade Runner make today's high budget cgi movies look like a joke, which they are. This is a film noir story spliced with science fiction and the result is something that is unique and still is. A lot of films try so hard to be gritty and dark, and Blade Runner, in my opinion, achieves that in the highest caliber. With it's dystopian setting and bleak story, the movie is very dreamlike.

And what this movie achieves in doing is telling a very simple story, but with so much to say. Not a lot happens in the movie, but every scene is vital in progressing the story, without any unecessary moments of filler. When many films do so much and try so hard only to end up failing, Blade Runner easily succeeds by being very subtle.

What is very captivating to me is that Ridley Scott created a world that is one of a great imagination. Through the visuals, it has the looks of a world that is very different from our own, but one that is living and breathing, a world that feels run down and claustrophobic to give a feeling of urban alienation, one that exists within our society. While Blade Runner is a science fiction film, it hits the heart with its sense of humanity and to me, I think that is what it achieves in being such a sentimental film to me. Whenever I want to watch a film to escape, I will put on Blade Runner.