Blade Runner

4.18
    Blade Runner
    1982

    Synopsis

    In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

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    Cast

    • Harrison FordRick Deckard
    • Rutger HauerRoy Batty
    • Sean YoungRachael
    • Edward James OlmosGaff
    • M. Emmet WalshBryant
    • Daryl HannahPris
    • William SandersonJ.F. Sebastian
    • Brion JamesLeon Kowalski
    • Joe TurkelDr. Eldon Tyrell
    • Joanna CassidyZhora

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Chicago Reader

      The grafting of 40s hard-boiled detective story with SF thriller creates some dysfunctional overlaps, and the movie loses some force whenever violence takes over, yet this remains a truly extraordinary, densely imagined version of both the future and the present, with a look and taste all its own.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      Most important, several elements -- the film's tough, new ending; a sly, fleeting dissolve of a unicorn, not in the original; and a brilliant, trompe d'oeil flicker of life in a shot of a still photograph -- bring Deckard's existential dilemma into focus. [11 Sept 1992]
    • 100

      Los Angeles Times

      May be the best "new" American movie released this year.
    • 100

      Washington Post

      This movie is great in any version...I don't miss what has been cut from the new version. The overall effect is so beautifully wrought, a few details aren't going to bring things crashing down.
    • 100

      Washington Post

      Grand enough in scale to carry its many Biblical and mythological references, Blade Runner never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing. It helps, too, that it works as pure entertainment.
    • 91

      Entertainment Weekly

      This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
    • 88

      USA Today

      What remains is a great Vangelis score, astonishing production design, Hauer's career role -- and a movie that deserves its cult reputation despite an unloving heart. [11 Sept 1992]
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Today, Blade Runner works better than ever: Scott's version not only has more dramatic integrity, but its visual aesthetic and futuristic vision are more in sync with today's movie-goers. [11 Sept 1992]

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