Blade Runner Reviews
CHUD
Projected in digital format with booming, all-encompassing sound, Blade Runner: The Final Cut is a marvel of technology and dedication. As a film it's still the same dead-eyed pretty girl who looks good on your arm but is a real bore over dinner.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Reel Film Reviews
...a hopelessly overrated piece of work.
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| Original Score: 2/4
I.E. Weekly
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.
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| Original Score: B-
Laramie Movie Scope
A visually stunning, but emotionally empty sci-fi classic.
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| Original Score: C
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
A very dark and far too long thriller with many dull moments that would serve the film better by moving along a bit faster.
Time Out
Top CriticThe android villains are neither menacing nor sympathetic, when ideally they should have been both. This leaves Scott's picturesque violence looking dull and exploitative.
Common Sense Media
A dark, philosophical sci-fi drama for older teens.
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| Original Score: 4/5
This is a seminal film, building on older classics like Metropolis or Things to Come, but establishing a pervasive view of the future that has influenced science fiction films ever since.
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| Original Score: 4/4
These days, it's almost impossible to find a gritty science fiction motion picture that doesn't owe at least a small debt to Blade Runner's visual style.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Ridley Scott created a triumph of retro-futuristic design over narrative or character richness.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
eFilmCritic.com
It's science-fiction. It's film noir. It's action. (It's awesome.)
| Original Score: 5/5
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Slant Magazine
The style-over-substance Scott's only substantive text.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Moviehole
The film that re-invented the Sci-Fi wheel
| Original Score: 3/5
Flipside Movie Emporium
As time goes by, it's increasingly apparent just how high this film towers.
| Original Score: 5/5
Mania.com
A motion picture masterpiece on the short list of Reasons Why This Medium is Worthwhile.
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| Original Score: A+
