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Blade Runner

1982

Ridley Scott

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Daryl Hannah ...

8.1

137,590

Sci-Fi. Action Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a retired cop in Los Angeles in 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Deckard's former job in the police department was as a talented blade runner, a euphemism for detectives that hunt down and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"This is a seminal film, building on older classics like 'Metropolis' or 'Things to Come', but establishing a pervasive view of the future that has influenced science fiction films ever since. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"Ridley Scott created a triumph of retro-futuristic design over narrative or character richness. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of four)"
		Janet Maslin The New York Times	"Science-fiction devotees may find 'Blade Runner' a wonderfully meticulous movie and marvel at the comprehensiveness of its vision (...) It's also a mess, at least as far as its narrative is concerned"
		Variety	"A stylistically dazzling film noir set in November 2019 in a brilliantly imagined Los Angeles marked by both technological wonders and horrendous squalor."
		Robert Osborne The Hollywood Reporter	"Admittedly, it's a film that will turn off many, but it will also bulge eyeballs and cause talk"
		Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"'Blade Runner' never feels heavy or pretentious -- only more and more engrossing with each viewing."
		Xan Brooks The Guardian	"'Blade Runner', in all its various, shimmering incarnations, is deathless. (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Michael Wilmington Los Angeles Times	"One of the most spellbinding 'looks' of any modern movie. Its script (...) was unusual. But its vision was unique: film noir cubed, science fiction a step beyond '2001'."
		Gary Arnold The Washington Post	"The contradictions that plague the movie are apparent from the outset."
		Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"A singular and enthralling experience (...) This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental."
		Andrew Collins Empire	"The casual fan will glean enough pleasure just watching the film — any bloody version — and admiring its astonishing production values (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Martin Chilton Telegraph	"A masterpiece of dystopian science fiction on film (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"

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