Blade Runner

Released: 1982
Sci-fi
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Young,  Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah
Rated: R
Running Time: 117 minutes

The breakdown:
A specialty detective hunts for android slaves that have a real mind of their own in 2019.


Based on the novel of Philip K. Dick, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" this movie can probably be interpreted in many different ways, but first the plot.
NOTE: I must say in what little research I've done to this point, there's at least seven versions of this movie floating around.  One is the director's cut, which has a lot of differences from the theatrical version.  I saw the version that was originally released to theaters with Harrison Ford's character narrating.
Harrison Ford plays a retired cop that is called back into service for one job, to kill six replicants.  Replicants are robots made to look and feel more human than humans, except for the fact that they are not supposed to have emotions.  They also were made to do things too dangerous for humans to do - colonize other worlds and they are strictly prohibited from being on Earth.  Visually indistinguishable and perfect in almost every way these robots also have a predetermined death date so as to not progress into dangerous territory of really thinking for themselves and wanting a true life of their own.  For the robots, death is not called death, it's merely called retirement.
So there's a group of six slave robots that are working "off world" on a ship when they kill all the people aboard and come back to Earth.
This is highly unusual behavior and they need to be exterminated.
Harrison Ford is reluctant to help, but does so and follows what little leads he has.
SPOILER!!!!!!!!!!
After this point I'm discussing the whole movie including the ending.
SO, Ford finds the robots and kills them except for one.  The one he does not kill is not a slave robot, but one that is basically homeless and could start thinking for itself if it is not "retired."  This one, played by Sean Young is special and at first, she doesn't realize she's not human.  They have implanted memories into her hardware and she genuinely believes herself to be a true woman.
Harrison Ford meets her early on in his lead gathering and is taken with her.
She escapes her home and looks for Ford's character.  Her home was with the creator and CEO of the company that produces these replicants called Tyrell Corporation.
After Ford's done killing almost all the robots (save one which Young kills for him when he's about to get whacked) he tracks down an abandoned building where the leader is still hiding.
Harrison Ford and Rutger Hauer fight it out until Ford is hanging by an exterior steel beam to the building and about to fall to his death.  Ford can't hold on anymore, but the robot grabs his hand and pulls him to safety at the last second, though, he never says why....considering he was trying to kill him a few moments ago.
Hauer's time is up and he knew it was coming so Ford just sits there in the rain, on a rooftop, and watches the robot die.
Ford goes back to his apartment and looks for Young's character.  She is still there (as Ford housed here there after she saved his life) and her time is not yet up.  When the CEO of Tyrell had spoken to Ford, he had said this one was special, she had no predetermined death date, so who knows how long she will go on.
Ford takes her and drives far north, far away from Los Angeles, and hopes that she will last a long time. 

Granted, I have left out A TON of stuff that happened, but it's a strange movie.  I knew it was beloved and nominated for several awards.
I can see how it was so well liked, but at the same time, I think I'm seriously missing something about it.  I must be missing a deeper meaning to things in the movie, because I can tell it was very avant-garde during the time frame it was released, and it was good, but I haven't had enough time to sit with it yet.  At the time of writing this review, I'm pressed for time and literally just finished it a few minutes ago.

Overall, I give it a 3 out of 5 for being intrigued, but a little confused by it to be honest.  I say, see it for yourself and give me your thoughts.