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Ridley + Indy + Sci-fi = Masterpiece

Advantages: All versions of the film, tons of special features, a brilliant film
Disadvantages: None

...Meanwhile Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner (special police squads with the specific purpose of eliminating Replicants) is dispatched to steel and gray jungle of the 21st century. His job? "Retire" Nexus 6. Their crime? Wanting to be more human. The brilliance of Blade Runner stems from the fact that it presents a film, really, without any baddies. Even Nexus 6 and Roy Batty are not evil, they just want to survive. This is illustrated when Batty saves ...
...film, proving that Replicants may have a spark of humanity in them after all. And with the ambivalent ending (Could Deckard be a Replicant himself?) we get two sides to a story that can never be fully wrapped up. Harrison Ford is great as Rick Deckard in probably the most un-realized role of his career. Though it is Rutger Hauer, as Replicant Roy Batty who utterly dominates the film. From ad-libbing a large portion of Batty's line's, to turning ...

mattb1983 31.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Blade Runner (Final Cut) (Ultimate Collector's Edition) (DVD)

1982 Blade Runner

Advantages: never fading, always new and gives you hope
Disadvantages: not good for under 16

...The fact that the Blade Runner(Rick Deckard) is forced back into killing the Nexus 6, made a turning point in the movie as he was now a target. The Nexus 6 which was just out to destroy the happily living humans was now being destroyed by the Deckard to 3 of them left and this was the hard target. I was so curious as to know how soon he was going to do this or if he was going to quit the job as he had initially wanted. When he(Deckard ) was almost ...
...this guy in the head, made things in the life of him. He was to kill this girl but after few shots of vodka, found that he loves this girl. I was like oh my God what is he doing? you are gonna get killed. But i was wrong because the whole thing changed. Furthermore, the fact that fact he was spared bye Roy Batty at the final end of the movie was just an evolution in life because he(Batty) realized that all humans are equal and there still remain ...

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Review of Blade Runner (Final Cut) (Blu-ray)

The Original And Still The Greatest

Advantages: Theres A Great Film In There
Disadvantages: Maybe more than you need

Blade runner- The Final Cut-Ultimate Collectors Edition (Five (yes five) Discs) "They don't advertise for killers in a newspaper". If that's not an arresting opening line in a movie then I don't know one. Strictly speaking its not the films opening line but the first words uttered by Rick Deckard in the original theatrical version of Blade Runner. Harrison Ford at night on a crowded street in the rain. A morally troubled former policeman introduces ...
..."That was my profession-ex-cop-ex Blade Runner-ex-killer" The film is set nominally in Los Angeles 2019, but feels like the indeterminate near-future, too close for comfort. Maybe just one scientific leap away. In this dystopian time every one who can afford to has migrated to an "off-world" colony. An introdutory scroll tells us the Tyrell corporation has advanced robot technology to the Nexus phase, fashioning organic/biological beings called ...

debmercury 08.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Blade Runner (Final Cut) (Ultimate Collector's Limited Edition) (DVD)

Man meets his match!

Advantages: Great cult film
Disadvantages: Drags if you're not concentrating

Blade Runner is a ground breaking cult film from celebrated director Ridley Scott and based on the novel by Philip K Dick. Set in the future, it tests the water of issues such as overpopulation, genetic modification and gives what is essentially an action thriller an artistic look and a great cast. It stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a Blade Runner, whose job it is to seek out replicants and destroy them, and features Deckard's tussle with the ...
...banned on Earth, and the Blade Runners are there to enforce the ban. Stellar performances from Rutger Hauer and M Emmet Walsh are backed up with a great script and some clever direction to make the film dark and moody whilst keeping the audience guessing all the way through. There are some really engaging moments between Ford and Sean Young, who stars as a woman Deckard suspects may be a replicant but can find no proof or signs. The film's futuristic ...

pmcds 16.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Blade Runner (Final Cut) (DVD)

Old Spice

Advantages: Epic Sci-Fi spectacular
Disadvantages: Poorly received, some naff special effects

...transform Frank Herbert's epic novel Dune into a movie. This grandiose movie looks as epic as Star Wars, but has something dirtier, menacing and almost sadomasochistic about it. Set in the year 10991 Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV (Jose Ferrer) feels threatened; one of his servant races (Atreides) is developing a power that can cripple simply by vocal ability. Choosing not to trust House Atreides he sends them to the planet Arrakis to mine for a rare ...
...first thing you notice about Dune is the way it looks, there is something very Russian about its design, not just in its uniform but in its impressive structures and settings. The House Atreides are the most traditionally dressed of all the races you encounter during the movie their uniforms all black, with coloured lapels and sashes to register their importance amongst their legion of soldiers; varying levels of the Atreides also have some very ...

sghawken 29.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Dune (Special Edition) (DVD)