Tejas Nair
Watching a man (Harrison Ford) investigate the whereabouts of robots in a snail-paced and lethargic fashion in director Ridley Scott's Blade Runner in 2018 is almost a torturous experience not because of how it is ahead of itself in retrofitting futurism in its hollow plot borrowed from a hollow story with, at best, two key takeaways but because of the emotionless narrative that puts emphasis only on the production setup and not on the proceedings which are as dull as the overall tepid writing and wooden performances. TN.
joe
This is easily one of the most overrated sci fi flicks ever. I challenge anyone to read the screenplay the whole way through without falling asleep. Yes, it's very visual and Vangelis did a good, appropriate (not amazing) soundtrack to give it that dark depressing "dystopia" bit....OK, fine...but that's it. No characters of even the tiniest interest to either love OR hate, a laughably bumbling love angle, and almost zero action except for one brief flurry around half-way through and another at the end. Speaking of which, a totally stupid ending...not Roy saving Decker, that was a great idea (and where it should have ended), but then Decker and Rachel hooking up and going....? where? And do we care? No. This movie was loaded with over-the-top pretentiousness and about zero believability, even given the premise. I saw it in the 80s and went "eh." I just saw it now for the first time since then, as I was interested in the new one and wanted this as a base, but found it's even worse than I remember. Read the review titled "So very very boring"....a bit harsh but sums it up fairly well (and is more entertaining than this entire film).
