Reviled on release, who would have thought that Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir would go on to become so influential and retrospectively acclaimed?
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11/23/07
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)
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Reviews Counted:36
Fresh:34
Rotten:2
Average Rating:8.7/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Box Office: $1,209,101
Synopsis: Twenty-five years after the initial release of BLADE RUNNER, director Ridley Scott uses archival footage to re-create his original vision for the sci-fi classic. Based on a story by Philip K. Dick,... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah
Director: Ridley Scott
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Reviews for Blade Runner - The Final Cut
Scott has said, “Why watch a film seven times? Because someone’s done it right and transported you to its world.” This retooling makes the film worth an eighth trip, and more. Not a case of Blade Runner Redux, but Blade Runner Deluxe.
11/21/07
Beg, borrow or steal a ticket to see it on the biggest screen you can find.
10/06/07
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.
12/04/07
Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.
12/07/07
The film still represents the cutting edge of dark science fiction.
11/29/07
If the total cinema package does not hit one over the head, it nevertheless provides more food for thought this time around.
09/26/07
The film's noisy sound mix and congested pictorialism--as if it had been directed by a crazed, postmodern Von Sternberg--is a direct corollary to its moral ambiguity and sense of climactic human expiration (technological and social).
10/08/07
Blade Runner is so good, it doesn't even have to be changed. The dialogue is so fascinating you can always hear it.
10/05/07
Forget coherent story or developed characters. The picture was created for special effects and production design, succeeding handily in that regard.
11/03/07
The opportunity to see one of the milestone visual achievements in a big hall with a giant screen is not to be missed. And even if you saw Blade Runner in a theater in 1982, this will be an entirely new experience.
10/05/07
Top CriticIt may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .
03/19/08
The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie.
12/06/07
Scott's film may keep us at arm's length, but it holds us, too.
12/17/07
Stylistically, Blade Runner is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi movies.
12/18/07
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.
01/04/08
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.
04/02/08
Much of the film's erotic charge and moral and ideological ambiguity stem from the fact that these characters are very nearly the only ones we care about.
11/09/07
Top CriticProbably close to being on par with Fritz Lang's Metropolis in terms of grandeur -- although of a stunningly different and far more unsettling kind.
02/19/08
This "new" Blade Runner is still a science fiction classic.
11/30/07
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