Blade Runner (Blu-ray, 2014)

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Blade Runner

Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah

Ridley Scott

Blu-ray

English

2014

30th Anniversary Special Edition\Ultra Violet Digital Copy

Sci-Fi & Fantasy, General

112 Mins

15

4

United States of America

Empire - This latest incarnation is better thought of as a meticulous and loving restoration rather than a new cut... After all, there really isn't much to fix, Washington Post - Grand enough in scale to carry its many Biblical and mythological references, BLADE RUNER never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing. It helps, too, that it works as pure entertainment., Entertainment Weekly - This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental., Time Out New York - This final edition is freshly remixed, deafeningly loud and totally immersive

Contains strong violence

It is 2019 and genetically made beings known as replicants exist as slaves and prostitutes in the off-planet colonies. Despite possessing such human traits as intelligence and virtual emotion, they are limited by a four-year life span which forces them to question their mortality. Four escaped replicants, led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer, THE HITCHER), arrive in Los Angeles to confront their designer, Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel). Hot on their trail is world-weary assassin--or 'blade runner'--Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford, INDIANA JONES), who has come out of retirement especially for this case. His objective is to hunt down and liquidate the four renegade androids before they have a chance to exact revenge on their cruel human oppressors. In the course of his search, Deckard becomes romantically entangled with Tyrell's lovely assistant Rachael (Sean Young)--who may not be all that she seems--and a dramatic face-off with Batty is inevitable. Director Ridley Scott's hauntingly prescient vision of the not-too-distant future is a stark revelation: a dark, polluted, overcrowded dystopia dominated by cloud-piercing buildings and looming neon billboards, the air dense with acid rain and flying traffic. Based on the novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K Dick, BLADE RUNNER boasts astonishingly rich art direction, juxtaposing ingenious technological gadgetry with yellowing photographs and fetishist objets d'art as it touches on questions of time, memory, identity, and mortality.

Blade Runner

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