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Starring:
Harrison Ford (Rick Deckard), Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos.
"Los Angeles in the year 2020. Huge neon advertisements illuminate the night sky above the city's towering skyscrapers. The interiors, however, are murky and dark, the oppressive gloom occasionally relieved by beams of light from a roving spotlight. The majority of Earth's population has left for outer space with only the misfits and decadent sophisticates left behind to populate the planet. Infiltrating this strange, derelict society are four replicants, laboratory-created creatures who are practically indistinguishable from humans -- whose job it is to perform menial tasks in outer space, and who are forbidden, on pain of destruction, to set foot on Earth. These replicants have hi-jacked a space-shuttle by killing its crew and are now in Los Angeles passing themselves off as humans. It is up to super-cop Harrison Ford to seek them out and eliminate them before they can eliminate him..." [video blurb, UK edition, ©1989 Warner Home Video Ltd.]
"Supercop Ford is called out of retirement to exterminate a group of replicants who have illegally returned to Earth, but soon his situation is as desperate and uncertain as that of the androids themselves". --(from The Complete Guide to What's On Video, UK pbk, 1993).
"Ridley Scott created a masterpiece of cyberpunk, rich in detail, exuberant in atmosphere. Every frame is a perfection of cinematography.
"Although considered slow-going by the young MTV audience, it's not the action but the atmosphere that counts. Immerse yourself in the future.
"Highly recommended, especially in the director's cut". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
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