Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 4 “skin jobs”, a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.

Blade Runner (1982)
  • Rating: (242,715 votes)
  • Taglines:A Futuristic Vision Perfected [2007 Final Cut] » Man Has Made His Match... Now It's His Problem »
  • Runtime:117 minutes
  • Director: Ridley Scott
  • Countries:USA, Hong Kong
  • Actors:
    Rick Deckard
    Harrison Ford
    Roy Batty
    Rutger Hauer
    Rachael
    Sean Young
    Gaff
    Edward James Olmos
    Bryant
    M. Emmet Walsh
    Pris
    Daryl Hannah
    J.F. Sebastian
    William Sanderson
    Leon Kowalski
    Brion James
    Dr. Eldon Tyrell
    Joe Turkel
    Zhora
    Joanna Cassidy
  • Genres:Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
  • Producers:
    Charles de Lauzirika
    producer (2007 Final Cut version)  
    Michael Deeley
    producer  
    Hampton Fancher
    executive producer  
    Brian Kelly
    executive producer  
    Ivor Powell
    associate producer  
    Paul Prischman
    associate producer (2007 Final Cut version)  
    Jerry Perenchio
    co-executive producer (uncredited)  
    Ridley Scott
    co-producer (uncredited)  
    Run Run Shaw
    co-executive producer (uncredited)  
    Bud Yorkin
    co-executive producer (uncredited)  
  • Plots: In a cyberpunk vision of the future, man has developed the technology to create replicants, human clones used to serve in the colonies outside Earth but with fixed lifespans. In Los Angeles, 2019, Deckard is a Blade Runner, a cop who specialises in terminating replicants. Originally in retirement, he is forced to re-enter the force when six replicants escape from an offworld colony to Earth. Written by Graeme Roy <gsr@cbmamiga.demon.co.uk>
Blade Runner
  • User's comment:New Blu-Ray Disc Made Me A Blade Runner Fan by ccthemovieman-1

    Sometimes you just need to give a film a second chance, even if it is 20 years later! Only some rave reviews about the picture quality of this new 5-disc "Complete Collector's Edition" enticed me to watch this again. Wow, I am glad; this was a very entertaining and a tremendous visual and audio treat.

    I actually appreciated the audio best because, even in this new Blu-Ray era, one doesn't often find a film with very active surround speakers. However, this "restored" version did and the sound is, at the point, the best I've heard on a Blu-Ray disc....or any DVD, for that matter. The visuals? Well, fans of Blade Runner know all about them. They are fantastic. Scene-after-scene reminded me of a Stanley Kubrick film or another bizarre 1980s movie called "Jacob's Ladder."

    Because there are so many things to see and hear, and the story is different, one filled with strange characters, I can see where people would watch this film multiple times and enjoy it very much each time. The "Collector's Edition" has the best picture ever, according to director Ridley Scott, and "is the version I'm most pleased with." It has added scenes one didn't see in earlier versions. The rest of the DVD has those earlier versions. Apparently, there are several including those with Harrison Ford doing narration, like out of a late '40s film noir.

    Speaking of the latter, that's what this film looked like: a combination film noir (or neo-noir) and sci-fi movie. It has many dark images, fantastic night-time scenes, wonderful closeups and an always-interesting color palette. Sci-fi films usually get dated in a hurry, thanks to ever-increasing special-effects progress in the movie industry, but this still looks very good. Despite being made over 25 years ago, Blade Runner still looks very much state-of-the-art.

    Scott says this is the best version and the best his film has ever looked and sounded. Since it's his movie, who am I to argue. So, if you're like me and never gave this movie a chance (I lost interest halfway through with my VHS look at it), give this a second look on this Blu-Ray edition....and you will be blown away. This is, indeed, an amazing film.


  • Quotes: Batty: Proud of yourself, little man? Batty: This is for Zhora! Batty: This is for Pris!
  • Also known as: Blade Runner (Argentina), Blade Runner (Canada - French title), Blade Runner (Denmark), Blade Runner (Finland), Blade Runner (France), Blade Runner (Greece - reissue title), Blade Runner (Japan - English title), Blade Runner (Mexico - imdb display title), Blade Runner (Spain), Istrebljivac (Croatia - imdb display title), Istrebljivac (Serbia - imdb display title), аЕЦСЫХИ ОН КЕГБХЧ (Soviet Union - Russian title), Ölüm takibi (Turkey - restored version, Turkish title), Blade Runner - Metropolis 2020 (Finland), Blade Runner - O Caçador de Andróides (Brazil), Blade Runner - Perigo Iminente (Portugal - imdb display title), Blade Runner: The Final Cut (International - recut version, English title), Blade runner - Omades exontoseos (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Dangerous Days (USA - original script title), Der Blade Runner (West Germany), El cazador implacable (Venezuela), Iztrebljevalec (Slovenia - director's cut), Lowca androidów (Poland), Mahserin fedaisi (Turkey - pre-release title, Turkish title), Perigo Iminente (Portugal), Szárnyas fejvadász (Hungary), Vânatorul de recompense (Romania),

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