Product ReviewsBlade Runner - The Directors Cut (DVD, 1997)

What's a tortoise?

This film got less than rave reviews when it was first released. I can only assume that the critics were unprepared for a heavily philosophical noir tale set in a future world ravaged by pollution and war. It's not a bright, shiny vision of a better tomorrow where the good guy always wins and everyone lives happily ever after. It is a grim, dystopian tragedy where the good guys are just as morally bankrupt as the bad guys and certainty is nigh nonexistent.

What this film does better than perhaps any other science fiction film before or since is to paint a future that is likely, if not in the fine details then in the oppressive setting. Humankind is on the wane, it's edifices and achievements crumbling inexorably into ruin. The days reveal a smog shrouded wasteland and the nights are inky nightmares only feebly pierced by the last neon lifesigns of a dying species.

With a treatment as dark as this you might wonder how anyone could find it entertaining. It is the burning house you can't look away from. It is the half eaten carcass of a lion's prey being circled by vultures. And ultimately, at the end of everything, it is a suggestion that humanity can be more than just human.Read full review...

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Blade Runner Review

Harrison ford is pretty young in this film. he looks good and plays and elusive futuristic cop, sent to "retire" a number of rogue robotic life forms that have gone haywire. a good story and some philosophical aspects. way ahead of it's time. good sound effects and musical score and amazing visuals and setting. this is a stape of futuristic sci-fi that no fan should ever miss! check this one out for sure! 4/5.

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BladeRunner

Despite the plethora of reviews of this brilliant movie I’ve decided to add mine as this is one of my favourite films. “Bladerunner” is one of those films that seems to have passed from being a mere film into something of a cultural icon. Under appreciated on its original release, it is now rightly considered to be a seminal work, hugely influential, not only one of the greatest science fiction films of all time, but one of the greatest films of all time.
I had the pleasure of seeing “Bladerunner” in the cinema on its original release and the outstanding visual impact of the film (Its miniature cityscapes still blow away any C.G.I. Of a similar nature) and its central themes of love and essentially what it is to be human were something I had never seen so poetically approached in cinema before. When the directors cut was released without the unnecessary voice-over and the tacked on happy ending (All originally inserted by a panicking studio) the film was improved. Prior to this it was a very ,very good film. Now it was a masterpiece.
Like all great sci-fi “Blade runner “says more about humanity than any number of romantic comedies and psychological thrillers. The replicants attempts to avert their shortened life-span is a very human reaction and Rachel’s gradual realisation of her replicant origins and the lie of her implanted family history is akin to someone being told they are adopted and have terminal cancer at the same time. These beings like us, indeed like any life form just want to live free of fear and supplication, as free sentient beings. Their struggle is one that resonates through human history but the story’s central premise that we have created a slave race to lord it over is chilling and horribly plausible.
The much debated unicorn dream of Deckard’s is interesting but is irrelevant to the movies narrative, after all no one in the film wants to die wether they are human or replicant.Though it is worth noting that if he is indeed a replicant it gives him a synchronicity with Rachel that could explain why they are drawn so irresistibly to each other.
I’ve watched this film more time than I’ve watched any other and it never fails to impress and fascinate. The acting is uniformly terrific and the casting is spot on, particularly Rutger Hauer as Roy who imbibes the part with a steely moral determination but in the sublime death scene endows him with a dignity and humanity beyond any other character in the film. The ending is now suitably ambiguous, leaving the lovers fate in the air and a further tantalising clue to Deckard’s origins. The Vangelis soundtrack is superb, it could have been a soulless clunking nightmare but like the film it looks beyond the sum of the machine to peer into the heart of the sentient being within and adds another layer of emotional resonance.
The films final message that all of us hold memories that are unique to us and that all life is precious is of universal relevance and resonates loudly down the years as the world continues to crackle with the tragedy of continuing conflict. A must see movie, a stunning DVD.Unmissable.Read full review...

Cool

No extras. It's a DVD copy of a video tape of an original 35mm print complete with dust and scratches... Yet, I'm totally happy with it for the price.

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maybe just me but love the narations by harrison ford

i love this movie and the old version just stick's in my head. You cant beat the graphic's for the city, even gloomy and raining all the time ,great for the time era for special effects.I remember them winning awards for the film,talking about the excelerated aging desease of the tech and how close to being real much less the exposure to the public about the desease.This movie was handled with class even though i think ford might have had issues with the movie. If you like sifi this is it.Read full review...

Somebody turn on the light...

Atmosphere throughout the film is very depressing...dark, wet...all the way through. Story is great but could have been produced much, much better. Cast did their part to pull it off, but...

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Great sci-fi, classic

A classic favorite the original theatrical release is my favorite though. Wish that one was available a great movie.

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BLADE RUNNER OR MORE HUMAN THAN HU MAN

THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THIS MOVIE THAT I CAN'T GET OUT OF MY HEAD . .

RUTGER HAUER, HARRISON FORD, THE DOVE,

THE DEATH SCENE . .

PERHAPS THERE IS A LESSON IN IT FOR ALL OF US. .

IF WE JUST OPEN OUR MINDS. .

ONE OF THE FINEST FUTURISTIC FILMS EVER MADE

WITH A CAST OF EXCELLENCE

IN A CLASS BY IT'SELF

MORE LATER, I GOTTA GO. .

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BLADE RUNNER -- Still GREAT after 25 years!

If you're a fan of the original Blade Runner or just hard-hitting, thought provoking Sci-Fi, I HIGHLY recommend this movie. Ridley Scott offers up an engaging vision of the future. Not some dark galactic empire filled with aliens and spaceships nor a Utopian Earth which is clean, pure, and at peace. It's the "world outside your window" as it may one day be.

Visually stunning, it still holds it's own with it's CGI-laden modern counterparts. And the story is, as all great stories, timeless. It forces us to take a deep look at who we truly are and what our place is in the world.

This Directors Cut DVD has a few added scenes which add more than just length to the movies running time. Most importantly, the narration by Harrison Ford is NOT included. Having seen both versions of this movie, I have to say that it was a lot easier to fully immerse yourself into the movie without the narration constantly taking you back out.Read full review...

Our Future will be much more complicated...

It is good stuff.
We need to think about a lot for our future.
I am hoping human can survive for another few thousands of years.
It is truly depend upon our behavior and mind set.

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