Blade Runner (1982)

• Year: 1982
• Released: 25 Jun 1982
• Country: United States
• Adwords: Nominated for 2 Oscars. 12 wins & 19 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Blade_Runner
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/blade-runner
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 2160p
• Language: Low German, English, German, Cantonese, Japanese, Hungarian, Arabic, Korean
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
• Runtime: 117 min
• Writer: Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Philip K. Dick
• Director: Ridley Scott
• Cast: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
• Keywords: based on novel or book, los angeles, california, cult film, dystopia, neo-noir,

	8.1/10
	84/100
	89% – Critics
	91% – Audience

Blade Runner Storyline

In the early twenty-first century, the Tyrell Corporation, during what was called the Nexus phase, developed robots, called “replicants”, that were supposed to aid society, the replicants which looked and acted like humans. When the superhuman generation Nexus 6 replicants, used for dangerous off-Earth endeavors, began a mutiny on an off-Earth colony, replicants became illegal on Earth. Police units, called “blade runners”, have the job of destroying – or in their parlance “retiring” – any replicant that makes its way back to or created on Earth, with anyone convicted of aiding or assisting a replicant being sentenced to death. It’s now November, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Rick Deckard, a former blade runner, is called out of retirement when four known replicants, most combat models, have made their way back to Earth, with their leader being Roy Batty. One, Leon Kowalski, tried to infiltrate his way into the Tyrell Corporation as an employee, but has since been able to escape. Beyond following Leon’s trail in hopes of finding and retiring them all, Deckard believes part of what will help him is figuring out what the replicants wanted with the Tyrell Corporation in trying to infiltrate it. The answer may lie with Tyrell’s fail-safe backup mechanism. Beyond tracking the four, Deckard faces a possible dilemma in encountering a fifth replicant: Rachael, who works as Tyrell’s assistant. The issue is that Dr. Elden Tyrell is experimenting with her, to provide her with fake memories so as to be able to better control her. With those memories, Rachael has no idea that she is not human. The problem is not only Rachael’s assistance to Deckard, but that he is beginning to develop feelings for her.

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Blade Runner Movie Reviews

An incredibly beautiful-looking film as one would expect with director Ridley Scott

But it’s almost like an art movie, the first science-fiction art film… It’s a futuristic film beautifully put together… It’s really impeccably made by one of the great visionary directors… And you really saw a future that looked very different from the future you had seen before… A future that looked very believable like the visual-effects shots of the flying car going over a futuristic city… The fight sequence doesn’t prepare you for the traumatic emotional side that there is in the film, it leaves you sort of broken…

There is a beautiful, delicate emotional great scene that I remember when I first saw the movie… I’m in the theater and I’m so drawn in what Rutger Hauer’s doing… I’m so drawn in by what the theme of the movie has brought us to… The magnificent moment where he is letting go of life… And in those last moments of letting go of life he’s really learned to appreciate life to the point where he spares Deckard’s life, and where he’s even holding a white dove because he just wants to have something that’s alive in his hands… It’s an amazing sort of crescendo that’s going and there’s Rutger saying: “I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. All these moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.” Hauer puts all the things that are so amazing about people: sense of poetry, sense of humor, sense of sexuality, sense of the kid, sense of soul…

Scott brought out the best qualities in his performers… He coaxed and very gently manipulated performances from his actors that in some instances I think they’ve rarely topped… You feel the story, you feel the emotions of the characters and you will be lost in the middle of this wild world, you know, it’s so rich and it’s painful… I mean it’s a very bluesy, dark story and told very compassionately…

The overpopulation, the sort of crowd scenes is so rich and varied and there’s such an extreme detail designing the magazine covers, designing the look of the punks, the Hare Krishnas, the biological salesman, everything is designed… You have just Piccadilly Circus punks walking by… You have a sense of layers in that society… That is one of those things that you see again and again… The city landscape with the big billboards à la Kyoto or Tokyo… Scott was able to create the look based on what goes on in various cities all over the world… Whether it is Tokyo, Kyoto or Beijing or Hong Kong or whatever, you’re right in “Blade Runner” country…

“Blade Runner,” to me, embodies the elegance, the power, and the uniqueness of a film experience… It’s the most classical, beautiful, purest movie-making writing and then the film-making itself is… The images and the sound and the music, it’s pure cinema… Ridley came out with an amazing, brilliantly executed future of an absolute dystopia… The intensity of his perfectionism on “Blade Runner” made the movie… This is a master at his best

I just don’t get it….

I admit right up front that I am perplexed by this film and my review will no doubt annoy a lot of fans of this film. Let’s face it, “Blade Runner” is a cult film–and those who like it usually don’t just like it–they adore it. I’ve known several people who insist rather rabidly that it’s one of the greatest films of all time. And, when I tell them that I don’t particularly like the film, they are confused—‘how could anyone not love the film?’ often say. In one case, the film lover insisted that I borrow his Director’s Cut (one of about 17 different Director’s Cuts or Special Editions, I think) because I must have been mistaken. Well, after my second viewing, I did enjoy and appreciate the film a bit more. But I still didn’t get the devotion to this film it often receives.

Here is what I liked and didn’t like about the film. It had great sets and was VERY other-worldly. While I think the print was a bit too dark, I understand this was done to fit the very dark mood of the film. However, I just felt the film was too dark–oppressively dark…even sadistically dark (such as the eye gouging scene). It completely depressed me–so much so that I found I just didn’t like or care about anyone. And, to top it off, the film ended very badly. The director’s original ending (where you learn that Harrison Ford’s character is also a replicant) would have been so much better. So, this is one case where the Director’s Cut is definitely better, as this original ending has been restored. Overall, the film looks impressive and is original–but these alone were not enough for me to give it a glowing endorsement. It’s good but that is all.

One of Ridley Scott’s best

Blade Runner is quite simply wonderful, and not only is it one of Ridley Scott’s best films, but also one of the best of the genre. For one thing, the visuals are superb. Not just in the special effects which are just mind-blowing but also in the cinematography, colours and sets. Another strong asset is the score, in fact Blade Runner is easily one of Vangelis’s best by how mysterious and haunting it all is.

The story is just great. True, it is the sort of film you need to see more than once to understand/appreciate it, but that is not a flaw in any way, quite the contrary. The story is very compelling, and also very deep thematically. Blade Runner is further advantaged by memorable dialogue, superb direction by Scott and good pacing. I can understand why some are underwhelmed by the ending, I was at first, but the more I saw the film the more the ending made sense to me. Finally the performances. Harrison Ford is perfectly cast, and Sean Young supports him admirably, but the real star of the cast is Rutgar Hauer who is outstanding in his role.

In conclusion, a brilliant film and something Scott should be proud of. 10/10 Bethany Cox