Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)

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.

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04/02/08

N/A

It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .

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03/19/08

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.

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02/19/08

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.

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01/04/08

N/A

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).

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01/01/08

9/10

Stylistically, Blade Runner is the Citizen Kane of sci-fi movies.

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12/18/07

4/5

Scott's film may keep us at arm's length, but it holds us, too.

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12/17/07

3.5/4

Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.

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12/07/07

4/4

The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie.

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12/06/07

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.

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12/04/07

B

This "new" Blade Runner is still a science fiction classic.

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11/30/07

5/5

Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless.

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11/23/07

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?

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11/23/07

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.

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11/23/07

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.

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11/21/07