Storyline
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.
Directors
Cast
James Hong, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Joanna Cassidy, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Kevin Thompson, Alexis Rhee, Sean Young, Joe Turkel, Brion James, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Morgan Paull, John Edward Allen, Hy Pyke, Kimiko Hiroshige, Bob Okazaki, Carolyn DeMirjian, Ben Astar, Judith Burnett, Leo Gorcey Jr., Dawna Lee Heising, Sharon Hesky, Kelly Hine, Tom Hutchinson, Charles Knapp, Rose Mascari, Jirô Okazaki, Steve Pope, Robert Reiter
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Reviews
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. [11 Sept 1992]
100
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
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.
