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Blade Runner Review ~ Mark Kermode
Seeing how hard Ridley Scott tried to create a new world for watchers to get lost in you would've thought he would spend more time on the actual story line for his main character. Harrison Ford has often been reluctant to answer why 'Blade Runner' is such an iconic film and this is probably due to the fact that his character, Rick Deckard, is incredibly stupid. Throughout the whole film we are led to believe that Deckard is human yet there are many minute details that could lead us to believe he is a Replicant, however that's moving on from the point of the story. The film opens with a simple paragraph explaining what is going on and we are introduced to these human replica robots inventively called 'replicant'. They are used in the slave labour and to explore new worlds however when it turns out that these robots are capable of murder at their own will the creators decide it is best to kill every replicant there is. But alas it is not that simple, since the