Every Ridley Scott Movie Ranked Worst To Best

3. Blade Runner (1982)

There's a very good chance that Blade Runner will be the film that Ridley Scott is most remembered for when the end of his career eventually comes. And while it might not be his most entertaining, the artistic credentials and the creative bravery it showed - in addition to the legacy it has cut through film history - probably prove that that is exactly as it should be.

Blade Runner is an astonishing sci-fi achievement, visually dazzling and haunting in equal respect, and showing the swagger of a director who you'd think had been at the top of his game for decades. It almost feels like it belongs in its own genre - a sure-fire hint of a director's success with any project - meshing high-concept sci-fi with fantasy and a fat noir detective story.

The more intimate joy in the film comes from the characterisation of Harrison Ford's Deckard and Rutger Hauer's Batty, but what it should be remembered for more pertinently is Scott's world-building - something he has excelled in throughout his career even in smaller scale stories. His baked LA is visually stunning and the mark of a visionary, and it's no accident that it has been turned into a vocabulary for other film-makers to use elsewhere in the film's wake.

There are more enjoyable films in Scott's library, but there probably aren't any more bold.