Blade Runner

The Movie Blade Runner was one of the better science fiction genre films I have seen. When Blade Runner was made in 1982, it was clear that it was ahead of its time. Taking place in the future of 2019 in Los Angeles with replicants of humans. Harrison Ford was the Blade Runner, a cop who was sent to terminate replicants who had excaped an off-earth colony and were threatening the city of Los Angeles. The effects of Blade Runner was what was ahead of its time. Computer Graphics were just beginning in the early 80s and really not that great. This film was definitely impressive. The cyberpunk story was also interesting. The connection that Harrison Ford's character, Rick, developed for the female replicant he had to test was a nice subplot to this film. The sophostication of the woman replicant and her ability to show feelings was also seen in the male replicant, Roy, at the end. When Rick was finishing off the last of the replicants he killed the girlfriend of Roy's which of course pissed Roy off and wanted to exact his revenge on Rick. Of course he was already planning on killing Rick, but it gave him more of a reason once he saw his love dead by a bullet. Roy had Rick off the edge of a building, but had an epiphany of the meaning of life and death at the very last second and saved Rick's life at the time of his own termination.
The growth of Roy's character was short lived, but Rick had the most development throughout the film. Rick begins as a retired Blade Runner who comes out of retirement to terminate these six replicants who escaped an off-earth colony who are dangerous. He starts off just as he would any other time he had to terminate replicants but it starts to become more personal when he develops feelings for the woman replica and when they start to come after him and he has many close calls with death. When he gets saved by Roy, he has become a changed Blade Runner. His new experiences have caused a change in his feelings towards his job.