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
Blade Runner - The Final Cut (1982)
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Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 33
Rotten:2
Average Rating: 8.6/10
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, the film is set in Los Angeles in 2019.... [More]
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah
Director: Ridley Scott
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Reviews for Blade Runner - The Final Cut
It may be a quarter of a century old, but Blade Runner still seems like the future . . .
03/19/08
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.
02/22/08
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.
02/19/08
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
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).
01/01/08
Blade Runner, which does not look one bit dated, envelops us so completely in its off-kilter, near-future world.
12/07/07
The changes are minor, but the overall effect is a much cleaner, more logical, and more organically flowing movie.
12/06/07
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, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless.
11/23/07
Top Critic Reviled on release, who would have thought that Ridley Scott's sci-fi noir would go on to become so influential and retrospectively acclaimed?
11/23/07
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.
11/23/07
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
Top Critic
Open the champagne: Blade Runner is finally just the way Ridley Scott wanted it. And it only took 25 years.
11/16/07
There are no plot-altering additions or subtractions. But the digitally spruced print is gorgeous to look at and listen to.
11/09/07
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