Harrison Ford is not good in this...

Harrison Ford isn't good in anything.

I love Ford's performance as Deckard. If you ask me, he fit the role perfectly.

Besides the character being burnt out and not interested in returning to his old job, I thought it was appropriate that the good guy, an "arguably" real human, was remarkably stolid compared to the non-humans he was made to hunt down. It's rather thought-provoking.


You want something corny? You got it!

Maybe it has to do with the fact he and Ridley Scott hated each other???

I thought Ford was fantastic in this, and only slightly less fantastic that Hauer.

Time wounds all heels.

Agreed. Very limited range. Seems to be more about his looks than anything else.

It’s almost as if he’s acting stiff and robotic.... like a robot.

I thought he did a great job. The screenwriter Hampton Fancher wrote Deckard as a passionless bureaucrat who regains his soul after his experiences with the replicants. The "passionless bureaucrat" side of him is really evident in his first conversation with Rachel. "Replicants are like any other machine, they're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem". Plus the way he retires Zhora by shooting her in the back. Despite being sentient he saw them as little more than walking hair dryers. Rachel softens him and his experience with Roy changes him and makes him appreciate all forms of life, human or machine, which leads him to flee with Rachel at the end of the movie. So yeah, for the majority of the film he's meant to be cold, heartless and apathetic, and sadly a lot of viewers miss that and put it down to lazy acting.

Ford is legendary for his smile. He doesn’t smile once in this, except maybe when he’s pretending to be that goofball Trust & Safety official to snoop around the stripper replicant’s pad.

If he’d played Deckard as that guy he’d be a lot more entertaining.

Ridley has always been a fantastic world-builder but a poor director of actors, people just aren’t his thing, he doesn’t know how to draw an audience into the internal life of a character. Ripley was always much more soulful and nuanced in Aliens than in Ridley’s Alien.