Sci-fi Blade Runner

I decided to watch Blade Runner for the Sci-Fi movie this week. I generally enjoy watching Sci-Fi movies because of their ability to captivate the viewer based a lot on the futuristic elements that can only appear real in Sci-Fi movies. I knew absolutely nothing going into this movie, so when I saw Harrison Ford's name come up on the screen I got excited. I mean who doesn't love Han Solo? The movie's opening sequence music really sets the stage for the movie as a whole, as it is creepy and a bit unsettling. We also start with a paragraph going up the screen giving us information about the world we are being exposed to. Hmm, this seems familiar. The scene changes are choppy especially with the music going from very soft to super loud. This could be on purpose to create a disjointed feeling among their world; that, or it's just bad transitional scene changes. Also, I think the music fits well with the movie, but I really hate the chimes sound they put at the end of every song before the dialogue starts. It is really annoying. I wasn't particularly loving this movie in the first hour, as it was a bit hard to follow and not greatly interesting. It did start growing on me though in the scene where Deckard shoots Zora. This scene is greatly portrayed through Ford's emotions on his face as you see the moral battle going on inside himself. Even though the Nexus-6's he is retiring are a threat to the human race, he is still murdering people that have developed human qualities. The worst part about this is that he has realized he will have to kill Rachel, the robot he has fallen for, and the robot who believes she is human. The movie poses a very interesting dilemma for the protagonist and audience member to figure out how to handle. As Deckard completes his mission, Gaff threatens him that Rachael will not make it to live with him. Deckard comes home to find his door open, and starts panicking but has a sigh of relief as he finds Rachael alive. They leave the hotel, as Deckard passes a little unicorn statue, a sign that Gaff was there, he goes off into the mountain resting uneasy never knowing how long he will have with Rachael. If I'm being completely honest I didn't really like this ending at all. Rachael technically should have died, and the fact that she didn't shows yet again how every movie ends in a happy love story. This one is different, of course, but Deckard never faced the moral dilemna of having to kill his love who is a robot.
It's funny when Sci-Fi movies are set in the future only to be a few years away from the present (example: Leon's birthday is today a year from now.) It seems so distant then when in actuality not much has changed.
I also watched the theatrical cut, so I don't know how that is different compared to the director's cut or the original version.
I give this movie a 7 out of 10. The first half wasn't very good, but I thouroughly enjoyed the second part on until the end.