4.5/10
I don’t think that this movie deserves to be on the Top 100 list. I didn’t find it entertaining, and I want to add an “...except for” there but I can’t think of anything to say.
I get that this movie was important for the sci-fi genre, and that it probably was pretty revolutionary with its predictions of 2019 life from 1982, but I also can’t really imagine audiences caring about what they saw in this movie then or now. It reminded me a lot of Wall-E, but in my opinion that is a much better movie. What is it trying to say? That even in a futuristic society (like in The Hunger Games) there are people who are below everyone else? And Deckard (Harrison Ford), the main character, is sent to kill these “replicants” and we are supposed to be on his side, for some reason? I don’t think this film gives a good enough reason for us to believe the replicants are bad—I mean, didn’t they come to Earth (yes, illegally) to escape slavery on another planet’s colony? So we are supposed to be against immigrants seeking asylum from an unjust colonial system? Hmm...
I found that Harrison Ford, who I generally love, had almost no expression throughout the whole movie… but, as some film historians have noted, director Ridley Scott may have done this intentionally: is Deckard human or a replicant? Several clues point to the possibility of him being a replicant, like his lack of emotion, his never having taken the test before, and the fact that apparently 6 replicants escaped but we only ever meet 5. So, that part, I guess I do like, but that is all up to interpretation.
In terms of the story, I didn’t care about what happened to the characters at all. There are no human women in this film, but I guess it’s up for debate that there are no human men either. I just find the female characters to be pretty fembot-ish, which is a joke in Austin Powers but is pretty serious here. I probably felt indifferent because of the lack of emotion, but it seemed that the movie was all about the “mood” and “ambience” of a futuristic Los Angeles and less about an actual narrative. I could predict a lot of the plot, and didn’t get what the message was supposed to be overall. I like the film noir genre; that’s not the problem. After 2 hours of the movie, I am still just thinking… eh.
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