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Ridley Scott, in the years since his debut film 'Alien' in 1979, has remained in mostly necessary high profile, further unleashing high budget escapist spectacles, whether to a future disaster on Mars (2014's The Martian) or perhaps away from the field of Sci- fi and instead to ancient Rome (the classic 2000 Gladiator or 2014's floppy Exodus- Gods and Kings, tedious as it may sound). Wherever you may find him journeying, and where pray tell next, perhaps myself and the many cult fans would argue Scott had long since mastered one genre, and proved his true potential for a masterpiece all the way back in 1982, only three years after cinema seats worldwide were in need of good cleaning from the terrifically unsettling Alien.

This time around, its not so much an unsettling affair as a picturesque and at times overwhelmingly beautiful 117 minutes (I'd be concerned if you were not at all taken by the shadowy cinematography of the Tyrell Penthouse - where the main character first meets and tests Rachael).

On first watch, it's a little difficult to follow perhaps, but when the soundtrack remains as compelling, the graphics as wide and absorbing as this is, in many ways I simply could not care less.

Set in a futuristic world, this story you could say crosses both Utopian and also Dystopian fields, although the main concept here may prove the latter more vital. This slightly philosophical work of genius takes on the novel Why Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? with our main character, Deckard, played by Harrison Ford (already by this time muchly anticipated after his role in 1977's Star Wars) who is forced back into the police force in order to carry out a hunt for 'replicants' or 'cyborgs' for now, who are known to have illegally trespassed onto the futuristic Earth, why does he hunt them down? Well I'd be spoiling the main idea.

On watching this film one casual Wednesday afternoon, the ever gripping storyline and its astounding climax awoke me and kept safely secured within my head the remaining week. So looking back from this point, the graphics are clearly very dated, and were probably spectacular for those around in the 80s, but part of me believes that if this film were to have been put together any later, with any more advanced studio tech, it really wouldn't be the dazzlingly surreal and individual film that it is.

Prepare for beauty, tension, melancholy and action and an overall Science Fiction Classic.