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
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 4/5 |
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 |
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It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . . Full Review |
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 B- |
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 |
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4/5 |
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 |
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3.5/4 |
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 |
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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 |
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9/10 |
Stylistically, Blade Runner is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi movies. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Scott's film may keep us at arm's length, but it holds us, too. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie. Full Review |
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10/10 |
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 |
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B |
This "new" Blade Runner is still a science fiction classic. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The film still represents the cutting edge of dark science fiction. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Reviled on release, who would have thought that Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir would go on to become so influential and retrospectively acclaimed? Full Review |
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5/5 |
Twenty five years after its original release, the boldly titled and definitive-sounding Final Cut has arrived, and thankfully, it boasts editorial polishes and technical upheavals that'll have George Lucas dashing back to the cutting room. Full Review |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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4/4 |
Blade Runner: The Final Cut plays better now than ever. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Open the champagne: Blade Runner is finally just the way Ridley Scott wanted it. And it only took 25 years. Full Review |
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4/4 |
There are no plot-altering additions or subtractions. But the digitally spruced print is gorgeous to look at and listen to. Full Review |
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