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A movie that has to be seen more than once to"get it"and I think I finally got it,thanks to the new battlestar galactic TV series.The cylons in that TV show that I love are based on the replicants from this movie and NOW I get it somewhat.There are many levels to this movie, all dark, and when it first came out in 1982 running 117 minutes,I couldn't see the story for the darkness.Now I believe I can. The cast is A+ starting with Harrison Ford but what woke me to Battlestar and the Cylons was the casting of Edward James Olmos as a cop in this movie.Talk about circle of life.My only problem with this story is the cynicism of the "bladerunner"works against the horror of the replicants,a problem I thought Battlestar handled poorly as well.Thats a tough issue to deal with when you have to face the demon you created yourself..That's the reason I took 1 star off.Trailer URL follows the pix and a IMDB summary below
In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk>
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