An extraordinary work; beautifully designed on a relatively low budget, ambiguous, and darkly poetic. It's more slowly paced than we would ever allow a movie to be today, but its pace is essential for sustaining the unique mood.
Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (1982)
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Fresh:41
Rotten:3
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Director Ridley Scott's hauntingly prescient vision of the not-too-distant future stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a retired police assassin, or "blade runner." The Los Angeles of 2019 is a... Director Ridley Scott's hauntingly prescient vision of the not-too-distant future stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a retired police assassin, or "blade runner." The Los Angeles of 2019 is a dark, polluted, overcrowded dystopia dominated by cloud-piercing buildings and looming neon billboards, the air dense with acid rain and flying traffic. World-weary Deckard has been called out of retirement to liquidate four escaped "replicants"--genetically derived androids of great strength, intelligence, and nearly-human emotion who serve as slaves and prostitutes in the off-planet colonies. Led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer), they've come to Los Angeles to confront their designer, Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), with their unhappiness about the brevity of their four-year life span. In the course of his search, Deckard becomes romantically entwined with Tyrell's lovely assistant, Rachael (Sean Young), and must eventually confront Batty in an unforgettable rain-soaked sequence. A highly influential fusion of the science fiction and noir genres based on the novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K. Dick, this postmodern film boasts astonishingly rich art direction, juxtaposing ingenious technological gadgetry with yellowing photographs and fetishistic objets d'art as it touches on questions of time, memory, identity, and mortality. Scott's 1992 director's cut edition contains notable alterations, including the absence of Ford's narration, which significantly heightens the ambiguity of key moments in this stunning cinematic landmark. [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, William Sanderson, Brion James, Joseph Turkel, Joanna Cassidy, James Hong, Kevin Thompson, Kao Thompson
Director: Ridley Scott
Director: Ridley Scott
Story: Philip K. Dick
Producer: Michael Deeley
Screenwriter: Hampton Fancher, David Peoples
Composer: Vangelis
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Reviews for Blade Runner - The Director's Cut
Actually the last movie that I had liked so much that I bothered to go to cinema for the second time. Never again I was so blown away by cinematic quality to buy tickets for repeated viewing.
A genre-defining science-fiction thriller with echoes of old-fashioned film noir
Blade Runner (1982), director Ridley Scott's follow-up to Alien (1979), is one of the most popular and influential science-fiction films of all time -
Blade Runner is a pretty good sci-fi thriller, and it's beyond me while Harrison Ford says it's his least favorite.
It looks fabulous, it uses special effects to create a new world of its own, but it is thin in its human story.
The special effects and production design remain astonishing and there are several supporting actors who have gone on to greater fame - Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos and Joanna Cassidy.
Blade Runner is a brilliant analysis of humankind, our development and evolution.
Even if this 1982 movie were made in 2007, it would be hailed for its special effects and production design.
It is, in fact, an amazingly sophisticated, sumptuously visionary treatise on the consequences of attaining god-hood.
A visually stunning, film, a truly influential masterpiece that has been copied time and time again. Unfortunately, it is also an emotionally vacant and ultimately unrewarding film experience.
Not only is Blade Runner a relevant masterpiece that asks poignant questions about what it means to be human, but it also looks like it could have been made today.
As intricately detailed as anything a science-fiction film has yet envisioned.
A rare masterpiece in both the sci-fi and film noir genres. Blade Runner makes you think, makes you question reality, and makes you return to watch it again and again.
It is a much improved film and if you haven’t seen either versions then this is the one to check out.
The most intelligent and terrifying vision of the future ever conceived for the screen ...
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