Blade Runner (1982)
Average Rating: 8.4/10
Reviews Counted: 96
Fresh: 87 | Rotten: 9
Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott's mysterious, neo-noir Blade Runner has deepened with time. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece.
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 1
Misunderstood when it first hit theaters, the influence of Ridley Scott's mysterious, neo-noir Blade Runner has deepened with time. A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece.
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A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition, but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film gained a significant cult following that increased its stature. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a retired cop in Los Angeles circa 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as
Jun 25, 1982 Wide
Aug 27, 1997
$1.2M
Warner Bros. Pictures
Cast
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Harrison Ford
Rick Deckard -
Rutger Hauer
Roy Batty -
Sean Young
Rachael -
Edward James Olmos
Gaff -
M. Emmet Walsh
Harry Bryant -
Daryl Hannah
Pris -
William Sanderson
J.F. Sebastian -
Brion James
Leon -
Joe Turkel
Tyrell -
Joanna Cassidy
Zhora -
James Hong
Chew -
Morgan Paull
Holden -
Kevin Thompson
Bear -
John E. Allen
Kaiser -
Hy Pyke
Taffey Lewis -
Charles Knapp
Bartender -
Robert Okazaki
Sushi Master -
Kimiko Hiroshige
Cambodian Woman
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All Critics (96) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (9) | DVD (30)
This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
Top CriticAs a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers.
This definitive print should be the last little push that "Blade Runner" needs to complete its 25-year journey from box office failure to cult favorite to full-blown classic.
The film still represents the cutting edge of dark science fiction.
Blade Runner: The Final Cut plays better now than ever.
Open the champagne: Blade Runner is finally just the way Ridley Scott wanted it. And it only took 25 years.
They all plod along while sometimes dazzling, sometimes boring special effects whiz by and Ford's climactic confrontation with Hauer approaches. Instead of tension building, though, things are grinding to a halt, including Hauer's gears.
A motion picture masterpiece on the short list of Reasons Why This Medium is Worthwhile.
It takes a particularly weird kind of sincerity to end a movie that has been for its entire running time an exploration of surfaces... with its most sublime and humane gesture.
[VIDEO] Blade Runner is one of the most enigmatic yet problematic science fiction films ever made.
A quintessential film noir of the 1980s, much underestimated at the time of release.
A dark, philosophical sci-fi drama for older teens.
...a hopelessly overrated piece of work.
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.
It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Stylistically, Blade Runner is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi movies.
Scott's film may keep us at arm's length, but it holds us, too.
Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.
The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie.
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- Roy Batty: I've done questionable things.
- Tyrell: Also extraordinary things. Revel in your time.
- Roy Batty: Nothing the God of bio-mechanics wouldn't let you in heaven for.
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- Roy Batty: Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled round their shores. Burning with the fires of Orc.
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- Gaff: It's a shame that she won't live, but then again, who does?
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- Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
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- Gaff: It's a shame she won't live - but then again, who does?
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