117 mins |
Rated
R (Restricted to persons over 16 years of age unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.)
Directed by Ridley Scott
Starring Edward James Olmos, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Darryl Hannah
The setup is quick. The screen darkens, the credits play first, as they used to back in the day, the noir, ominous music a portending of what’s to come. 50 seconds of a scrolling-text-backstory later, we are thrust into the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner, its sky-high towers, flying cars, and video-call machines, these gizmos a mere reminder of the civilisation that once was. For much else is a complete shambles. Airships advertise hope from this world of grunge, “A new life… in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again…”
and the Guardian says....
" Who cares that the "final cut" of Blade Runner is virtually indistinguishable from the 1992 "director's cut", which was itself just a stripped-down modification of the original 1982 release? Ridley Scott's baroque spectacular still has plenty going for it, not least its half-cut vision of a 21st-century Los Angeles that boasts flying cars, clunky, breeze-block computers, extreme weather and a conspicuous absence of a smoking ban. Alien aside, it remains Scott's most ambitious, fully realised film. The replicants chased by Harrison Ford's cop come saddled with an inbuilt four-year lifespan. Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless... " Xan Brooks
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The setup is quick. The screen darkens, the credits play first, as they used to back in the day, the noir, ominous music a portending of what’s to come. 50 seconds of a scrolling-text-backstory later, we are thrust into the post-apocalyptic world of Blade Runner, its sky-high towers, flying cars, and video-call machines, these gizmos a mere reminder of the civilisation that once was. For much else is a complete shambles. Airships advertise hope from this world of grunge, “A new life… in the Off-world colonies. The chance to begin again…”
and the Guardian says....
" Who cares that the "final cut" of Blade Runner is virtually indistinguishable from the 1992 "director's cut", which was itself just a stripped-down modification of the original 1982 release? Ridley Scott's baroque spectacular still has plenty going for it, not least its half-cut vision of a 21st-century Los Angeles that boasts flying cars, clunky, breeze-block computers, extreme weather and a conspicuous absence of a smoking ban. Alien aside, it remains Scott's most ambitious, fully realised film. The replicants chased by Harrison Ford's cop come saddled with an inbuilt four-year lifespan. Blade Runner, in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless... " Xan Brooks