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

4/4

The film still represents the cutting edge of dark science fiction.

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11/29/07

4/4

Blade Runner: The Final Cut plays better now than ever.

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11/16/07

3.5/4

Open the champagne: Blade Runner is finally just the way Ridley Scott wanted it. And it only took 25 years.

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11/16/07

4/4

There are no plot-altering additions or subtractions. But the digitally spruced print is gorgeous to look at and listen to.

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11/09/07

N/A

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.

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11/09/07