Blade Runner (1982)

[**** stars / *****]

Tyrell: 

You were made as well as we could make you.

Roy: 

But not to last.

Tyrell: 

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly, Roy. Look at you: you're the Prodigal Son; you're quite a prize!

Roy: 

I've done... questionable things.

Tyrell: 

Also extraordinary things; revel in your time.

Blade Runner is a sci-fi drama set in 2019, Los Angeles, where humans have spread their misery beyond Earth. 

There are space colonies, space wars, scarily human-like robots, flying cars, and an encompassing grimness. 

Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a 'blade runner', his immediate job involves tracking and killing four replicants (bio-engineered robots or humanoids with limited lifespan) who have illegally entered Earth.    

In a not so bright future, Blade Runner (1982) will probably be remembered as Ridley Scott's best movie, yes, above Alien (1979), Gladiator (2000) and Black Hawk Down (2001), for the sheer audacity and cinematic leap of the idea - human future that is sad and hollow, despite the premise that man has conquered more planets and has robots at his service.

Question everything  
What is it that differentiates man and machine? 

Does a machine with an expiry date and human-like awareness have the right to live a human life? Is man finally the cruel, calculating machine after all, with a metal heart?

A grim future 
Blade Runner is epic, unparalleled, beautifully brooding future-scape painting of a sci-fi movie, that still brings up questions on humanity, creation, life, listlessness, fear and brutal authority. 

A yet unraveling masterpiece of its genre.

There are reportedly eight different edited versions of this grim-some drama, one studio cut is supposed to be four hours long.

I recommend Blade Runner: The Final Cut, released in 2007, said to be the one where Ridley Scott had total artistic leeway to cut his version.