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Blade Runner (1982) Certificate 15

Blade Runner
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Rated 4.0 stars
Average rating
(76%)
 
Starring: Harrison Ford | Rutger Hauer | Edward James Olmos | Sean Young | M. Emmet Walsh | Daryl Hannah
Director: Ridley Scott
Studio: WARNER HOME VIDEO
Genres: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Languages: English
Hearing-impaired: English, Italian
Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
Released: August 12, 2002

Four illegal humanoids, led by Rutger Hauer, have infiltrated 21st Century Los Angeles. Blade Runner hitman Harrison Ford, is recruited to eliminate the convincing android beings before they cause any damage or create unrest in the paranoid hi-tech urban society.

Rating of 5 stars out of 5
Radio Times

A super Philip K Dick story about a superdick searching for rebellious replicants translates here into a violent visual eye-popper, based in a futuristic Los Angeles, which set the acid rain/neon-drenched metropolis design standard for eighties sci-fi. As influential as 2001: a Space Odyssey and Star Wars, and as thought-provoking as the former Kubrick classic, Ridley Scott's atmospheric downer is a compelling noir thriller that pleads for harmony between man and machine. Harrison Ford stars as the former cop assigned to track down android Rutger Hauer and his three associates. Hauer gives an exceptional performance as the blond humanoid who, like the others, has been implanted with memories of a nonexistent youth. This Director's Cut, which drops Ford's voice-over, actually adds more depth to the 1982 original, so the full masterpiece can shine through. A masterpiece of recent cinema.

Rating of 3 stars out of 5
Halliwell's Film Guide

A cult film par excellence, and notable for its exceptional production design of a future Los Angeles, which has become a mix of high tech buildings surrounded by seedy street life under lowering clouds and incessant acid rain.

Highest rated reviews

36 out of 37 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
The Greatest Sci Fi Film Ever Made

sassyschoolmarm from Avon, 8th December, 2003

"Bladerunner" is a film that shaped the way I think. There are not many films you can say that about. Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick called 'Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?', the film explores a dystopic future where the unwanted members of humanity live in polluted, murky and grossly overcrowded megacities. The golden children are whipped away from Earth to the planetary colonies to escape the degradation. Above the filth, the Tyrell Corporation churns out androids to cater to the whims of humans. What happens when a group of androids (that are very difficult to tell apart from humans) decide they are destined for something better and go on a murderous rampage? Easy, you hire a bounty hunter to wipe them out. In a startlingly intelligent examination of humanity's treatment towards what are considered lower lifeforms, you will find yourself rooting for both the bounty hunter and the androids - weird.
Harrison Ford is good as Deckard but the standout is Rutger Hauer as Roy Battey, the android leader. If you have dry eyes in his last scene, well, you're not human! Beautiful model work and a scorching soundtrack by Vangelis ensure the elevation of this film in to the ranks of the divine and holy!

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24 out of 28 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 1.0 stars
Not Really That Good

A Customer from Wigan, 3rd December, 2007

I can see why people enjoyed this movie when it was first released but i have to say that it is so outdated and not very good at all really. I endured this movie for about 70mins before heading for another selection as i found it to be very very poor. I'm sure it'ss liked by some but even Harrison Ford let himself down in this one... What Happened Han???

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19 out of 20 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars

TMR#1 from LONDON, 29th January, 2004

Quite possibly my favourite film of all time. A young Harisson Ford, directed by a young
Ridley Scott bring us one of the tightest sci-fi films of all time. The film's ability to actually
transport you to another place and time - somewhere in the futre - are a testament to the
director, screenwriter and cast. No silver suits, no flashy spaceships, just the same
amount of grunge that we have in large inner-cities today - only with a bunch of psychotic
cyborgs that need to be erradicated. There are, intertwined within all of this, a series of
wonderfully complex sub-plots and twists that leave you asking how / what / who / wha....
Essential viewing - no doubt.

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16 out of 17 people found the following review helpful:

Rated 5.0 stars
It still rocks

Alethea1 from London, 21st December, 2004

I've loved this film since I first saw it about 14 years ago. My boyfriend hadn't seen it so I thought I'd get it out again for his benefit. I was a bit worried after singing its praises so highly that it might have dated a bit since I last saw it but it is still a fantastic film.

Dark and moody and very sexy. It's incredibly poetic too, but most of all its just a great stylish thriller.

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Rated 5.0 stars
BLADE RUNNER

LENSER from , 28th February, 2010

This film, made before the sophisticated CGI equipment around today, is a tribute to the suberb Cinematographer Jordan Cronenworth. Some of the best night interiers and exteriers, add to the great direction and performances of this great movie. All students of film should watch this and learn from 2 of the great craftsmen of the cinema,, and the music by Vangelis , for me , gives the film 10/10

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Rated 0.0 stars
Five words: complete utter Rubbish

A Customer from London UK, 15th February, 2010

Did you notice that I said five words? This is as much time as you should ever give to this pile of poo. No mind altering substance or gun to the head could shift my stance. crap-o-rama. Dry like a biscuit but with none of the flavour. I wasted my sunday watching this and my other half wanted to watch x-men. Again. I wish i had watched that instead. And I hated x-men.

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Rated 0.0 stars
Incorrect labelling in listing

Jimbo987 from , 11th February, 2010

BEWARE - Initially this title appears in a search as the 1982 OV [original version]. In fact, it is the later, directors cut where they've sadly removed Harrison Ford's narrative - a crime to such a good film. I think it was better with that; made it more personal, his own viewpoint. Removing that, changed the perspective drastically.

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Rated 5.0 stars
Why don't they make sci-fi like this any more?

BeccyMalloi from , 21st October, 2009

Bloody brilliant- always seen bits of this film on telly but never sat down to wtach the whole thing- loved it!

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