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Blade Runner (1982)

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Reviews Counted:101

Fresh:93

Rotten:8

Average Rating:8.5/10

Consensus: Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott's mysterious, noir-influenced Blade Runner has deepened with time. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece.

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Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence and brief nudity

Runtime: 1 hr. 57 min.

Genre: Drama, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Theatrical Release: Jun 25, 1982 Wide

Box Office: $1.2M

Synopsis: In the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed... In the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when five replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. [More]

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos

Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joe Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Morgan Paull, Kevin Thompson, John E. Allen, Hy Pyke, Charles Knapp, Robert Okazaki, Kimiko Hiroshige

Director: Ridley Scott

Director: Ridley Scott
Screenwriter: Hampton Fancher , David Peoples
Producer: Michael Deeley
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

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Oct 18, 2008
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...a hopelessly overrated piece of work.

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Oct 18, 2008
Jam! Movies

As a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers.

Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | comment Comment
Aug 22, 2008
Richard Corliss
Richard Corliss
TIME Magazine
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From the opening shot of a Los Angeles cityscape at night in the year 2019, it is clear that Scott has conjured up something special.

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Aug 22, 2008
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For all its armor of brutalizing urban dystopia (and, boy, is there a lot of that -- you could fund a war on terror with the fog- and rain-machine budgets alone), Blade Runner has a gooey center.

Full Review Source: Sacramento News & Review | comment Comment
Apr 2, 2008
Jonathan Kiefer
Jonathan Kiefer
Sacramento News & Review

It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .

Full Review Source: Sci-Fi Movie Page | comment Comment
Mar 19, 2008
James O'Ehley
James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page

Paradoxically, Scott's crowded, misty, neon streetscape seems even murkier; fuzz I chalked up to VHS tapes is production designer Lawrence G. Paull dumping ashtrays in the air.

Full Review Source: I.E. Weekly | comment 1 Comment
Feb 22, 2008
Amy Nicholson
Amy Nicholson
I.E. Weekly

Probably close to being on par with Fritz Lang's Metropolis in terms of grandeur -- although of a stunningly different and far more unsettling kind.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
Feb 19, 2008
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

The new version helped me see the soul because, ironically, this rendering is so much brighter. Noir or not, a film you can’t see properly is a film you can’t fully appreciate.

Full Review Source: Kansas City Star | comment Comment
Jan 4, 2008
John Mark Eberhart
John Mark Eberhart
Kansas City Star

Though it's a triumph of visual futurism and an ornament to sci-fi cinema as well as to cinema in general, I resist it on some level.

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Jan 1, 2008
Rob Gonsalves
Rob Gonsalves
eFilmCritic.com

It's an overwhelming, immersive experience, a total creation of a possible future so complete that you don't need exposition to know how we got from here to there (2019).

Full Review Source: MSN.com | comment Comment
Jan 1, 2008
Sean Axmaker
Sean Axmaker
MSN.com

Stylistically, Blade Runner is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi movies.

Full Review Source: DVDTown.com | comment Comment
Dec 18, 2007
John J. Puccio
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com

Scott's film may keep us at arm's length, but it holds us, too.

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Dec 17, 2007
Jesse Hassenger
Jesse Hassenger
Filmcritic.com

Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
Dec 7, 2007
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie.

Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
Dec 6, 2007
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid

Blade Runner has only gotten better with time. Do yourself a favor and pass over anything new in theaters and go for this old classic, it still has the power to dazzle and amaze.

Full Review Source: KPBS.org | comment Comment
Dec 4, 2007
Beth Accomando
Beth Accomando
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