An Overlooked Harrison Ford Movie Is Taking Off On Streaming
Making belated sequels to beloved movies is an increasingly popular trend, but one that yields somewhat mixed results. A better example of such,
Blade Runner 2049, is one of the most popular viewing choices on HBO Max this week and is also one of
Harrison Ford’s best films of recent years, despite being overlooked by general audiences upon its theatrical release in 2017.
Blade Runner is, of course, one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever made. Set in the far-flung future of, um, 2019, it sees Ford as the titular bounty hunter tasked with hunting down rogue replicants, bioengineered artificial humans designed for various undesirable tasks. Although on one level a basic neo-noir augmented by cyberpunk imagery, it posits numerous existential questions about the nature of identity, the truth and fallibility of memory, and what it means to be alive.