Blade Runner (Remastered Directors Cut) (DVD)

I have seen some fairly unimpressive box set DVD's of late, but if there is one box set that cannot fall into this category it's the new Blade Runner: Final Cut box set, the most beautiful and feature packed box set that I have ever seen. With a sale price of between £17.99 to £24.99, which ever end of that price bracket you purchase the box set at it's worth your money. Blade Runner was first released in 1982, it was both a success and a failure. It failed to achieve the desired audience that the movie needed to be a box office success, but the movie generated a wealth of fans that kept the movie at the forefront of people's minds. It is a movie that has ...  Read the complete review

Science fiction movies are a crowded genre with a history filled with illustrious, seminal movies and those relegated to B-movie status due to their sub-standard production. Few ever make that rare, seminal status considered water shed in Sci-fi terms. Movies like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and “Star Wars” changed the face of science fiction on film forever but it was “Blade Runner”, released in 1982, that steered the genre in a whole new direction. The movie is directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay written by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples. Based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick, the story revolves around ...  Read the complete review

Blade Runner. 1982. Really? 26 years old! Ridley Scott at his best as a director (do get the director's cut). Based on a Philip. K. Dick novel, we see a very sullen and cynical Harrison Ford playing the part of a 'Blade runner' named Decker; basically a government backed assassin employed to kill deviant 'replicants', (androids). This is set some time in the future, 2019 to be precise, not so far now! I am certainly not a Harrison Ford fan, the closet he has come to any good has been in Star Wars and that was only a 5/10 performance. However in this he is made for the part and it is in my opinion his best ever role. He plays it like a 40's ...  Read the complete review

BLADE RUNNER Blighted by an arduous shoot that led to t-shirt wars between an unsympathetic American crew and its English director; a frosty relationship with Tandem pictures; a considerable misjudgement in releasing the film with a dour voice over narration and happy ending following mediocre preview sneaks in Denver and Dallas; and the fact it followed on the boot heels of Spielberg's wonderful ET, you would think it amazing that Blade Runner ever found a loving audience. Few films that flop ever go on to do much business, yet alone receive a re-release in the form of a director's cut at cinema screens 10 years later. However, Blade Runner isn't just any ...  Read the complete review

What you are immediately left with after watching this film, appropriately enough considering the films preoccupation with looking, are the striking visuals. Over the course of the film, an intricate urban landscape is built up, depicting a future that is at times beautiful and at times repellent, but always mesmerising. With the prominence of the visuals it is easy to dismiss the film as simply a glossy surface, with nothing of sustenance behind them, but this would be to do it a major injustice, as at its core lie several issues which are not only relevant to the society in which we live today, but will only grow in importance as we move ever closer to the time of the ...  Read the complete review