If You Loved Blade Runner, Watch These 8 Next

You finished Blade Runner, stared at the rain for a while, and now you need more. Eight picks with real scores. One will start a fight.

Number one has zero robots, and it's still the closest match.

1. 8
   Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)7.5

   Caesar is basically a replicant with better posture.

   An engineered being outgrows the lab that made him. 7.5 movie.guru score, $481.8M worldwide. Franco's the weak link, Lithgow does the heavy lifting.
2. 7
   V for Vendetta (2005)7.2

   Dystopia in a mask, monologues included.

   Dark authoritarian future, a masked outsider, big speeches. Critics gave it 73% on RT, IMDb voters gave it 8.1 from 1.26 million votes. The crowd is right.
3. 6
   Predestination (2014)7.5

   Tiny budget, huge identity crisis. Very Blade Runner.

   Reported $5M budget, $68,372 domestic, and almost nobody saw it. Same question Blade Runner asks: who are you, really? Sarah Snook carries the whole thing.
4. 5
   The Martian (2015)9.0

   Ridley Scott sci-fi with the gloom switched off.

   Same director, opposite mood: sunny, jokey, potato-powered. 9.0 movie.guru score and $630.6M worldwide. Less noir, same craft. Fans of the dread will miss it.
5. 4
   Looper (2012)7.7

   Best future-noir hitman movie of its decade.

   A hired gun in a grimy future, hunting the one target that talks back. 93% on RT off a reported $30M budget. CinemaScore B, which is frankly rude.
6. 3
   Snowpiercer (2013)7.9

   The best class-war dystopia nobody paid to see.

   Tail of the train versus the front, like Blade Runner's streets versus the towers. 94% on RT, only $4.56M domestic. Tilda Swinton steals every car she walks into.
7. 2
   Logan (2017)8.7

   The best Blade Runner follow-up isn't a Blade Runner movie.

   Tired hunter, dusty near-future, a kid built in a lab. 8.7 movie.guru score, Guru's Take 9.1. It's a superhero movie only on paper.
8. 1
   Gladiator (2000)8.3

   Gladiator is Blade Runner in sandals. Fight me.

   Same director, same doomed fighter raging at the empire that owns him. 8.3 movie.guru score, IMDb 8.5 from 1.89 million votes. Zero robots. Pure replicant energy.

$739.42 says somebody in the comments types 'but where's Alien' within the first hour.

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