Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
by Ridley Scott

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Actor: Harrison Ford
Director: Ridley Scott
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); German (Original Language); Hungarian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 117 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-12-18
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Warner Home Video

DVD Reviews of Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

DVD Review: A look at life, eleven years into the future...
Summary: 5 Stars

Remember that scene at the end of `The Silence of the Lambs' where Clarice is in the creepy old house and you just know that Wild Bill is lurking around every dusty corner? Remember how your heart all but stopped while the scene was running, how you gripped the arm rests in fear as you told yourself over and over again that it was all going to end well; that Clarice was going to get the bad guy and save the girl and whatever else you had to tell yourself in order to make it through?

Gather those feelings and relish in them, because that is precisely what every moment of `Blade Runner' feels like.

The film takes place in the near future (eleven years to be exact) in the year 2019. Man has created an equal to themselves, human clones known as replicants, who, equipped with fixed life-spans, can work in the colonies outside of Earth. When a bloody mutiny breaks out these replicants are labeled illegal. When a few of these clones escape their Off-World Colony by stealing a ship and make their way to Earth, an ex-Blade Runner (police officers dispatched to hunt down and terminate replicants) named Deckard is asked to come back into the game in order to get rid of them.

The kicker with the film, and really what makes it so much more than just a science fiction/action film is the fact that the replicants don't know that they are not human. They are practically human (except they are not programmed to express human emotion, although they have the capability to learn how to) and so they fear death just as much as you or I.

If one looks at `Blade Runner' simply as an action film or a science fiction masterpiece they are bound to be satisfied. As far as run of the mill blockbusters are concerned, Scott's visionary epic is at the top of the pack; by a long shot. It is beautifully shot, it is fast paced and thrilling. The acting is actually very good considering the genre and the usual messy performances that come with. But, if you take a minute to look at `Blade Runner' as something deeper than all that you come to experience an entirely different and ultimately more rewarding film. Yes, if you dissect the humanity captures within the films core you will find a very thought provoking film that gropes at our very feelings towards life and death.

I remember recalling Sean Penn's devastating words at the end of `Dean Man Walking', where he said that killing is never okay.

Instant chills.

`Blade Runner' has a style that is probably the films greatest focal point. To say that Ridley Scott (totally snubbed of an Oscar) is the star of the show is an understatement. The film is like a really gritty `Fifth Element' with enough horror and even a little noir thrown in for good measure. Scott effortlessly pans across a universe that seems strangely distant yet almost too real. We can see ourselves there even if we don't want to. My best friend told me that `Blade Runner' is his favorite film because it seems too probable.

Harrison Ford is brilliantly cast, lending the film his masculine charm. Rutger Haur is terrifying yet overtly sympathetic at the films end, and Sean Young is devastatingly powerful as Rachael, the `special' replicant who is coming to terms with her own reality. Daryl Hannah also turns in a great performance as Pris, a beautiful replicant who is as dangerous as she is intoxicating.

Everything about `Blade Runner' is stunning, from the set pieces to the actors who inhabit them, and to judge a film on pure surface value alone would place this picture towering above many; but when you add the satisfying substance that marks this films core you can see why `Blade Runner' is considered one of the greatest films of all time. It has everything, and it delivers everywhere.

DVD Review: AWESOME!
Summary: 5 Stars

This set is the best box set I have so far. With all the different versions, I have no idea where to start. Well I got mine in August. I still have yet to watch everything on the DVDs but I'm getting there. I'm not very good with reviews but I have to say the versions are not that different from each other but still worth watching.

DVD Review: Perfect!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is possibly the best box set I've seen yet. All five versions of the movie are presented in this set beautifully remastered and in 5.1 surround. I cannot complain about anything about this. The extras included also are in perfect form. It is definately worth the extra money to get this set especially since it includes the workprint version only available here and in the blueray edition.

DVD Review: Great box set!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Love the packaging for this great, ahead of it's time sci-fi masterpiece. Still like the original, rather than the re-issues.

DVD Review: Puting thought back into science fiction
Summary: 5 Stars

The film was finally released in 1982 starring Harrison Ford as a Blade Runner named Rick Deckard; a bounty hunter whose task was to track down and destroy Replicants; robots that resembled humans in just about every way, except for a typical lack of emotion. He is challenged by an incredibly human, in nature Replicant, named Roy Batty, who was played by the white haired Rutger Hauer, Roy later being one of the iconic roles of his long career.
Throughout the film humanity is questioned, as sometimes it seems as if Roy and his group of Replicants are more human than the one who hunts them. Often implying Deckard was a Replicant (an aspect never seen in Dick's book) was a way of asking ourselves if humanity truly was better than the machines they created. A compelling sci-fi epic, with beautiful set pieces Blade Runner received plenty of critical praise, but was overshadowed by John Carpenter's horror remake of The Thing and Steven Spielberg's heartwarming family adventure, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, which were also in theaters around the time of Blade Runner's release. The complex Blade Runner didn't stand a chance against these two mainstream, appealing sci-fi films and struggled in the box officer, only making an estimate of $33,000,000; a $5,000,000 profit.
Overlooked the year it was released Blade Runner would soon come to be one of the most beloved science fiction films of the `80s, managing to end up on many top film lists nationwide, and taking a firm place in cinema history. Director Ridley Scott, who thought he'd had too much cut from the original theatrical cut would later go back and release a Director's Cut in 1992; the film's tenth anniversary. Fifteen years later a dedicated Scott would return to the film again for its 25th Anniversary special edition DVD release, making what he entitled Blade Runner: the Final Cut. This final cut was soon accepted by the film's many fans as the definitive cut of the film.

Scott went all out on the Final Cut and all the 25th anniversary DVD sets. Blade Runner is a masterpiece.

Description of Blade Runner - The Final Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott's definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, muderous replicants - and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. This incredible 2-Disc Set features the definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott's legendary Sci-Fi classic and the in-depth feature length documentary "Dangerous Days" and features all new 5.1 Audio.

In celebration of Blade Runner's 25th anniversary, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version. Blade Runner: The Final Cut, spectacularly restored and remastered from original elements and scanned at 4K resolution, will contain never-before-seen added/extended scenes, added lines, new and improved special effects, director and filmmaker commentary, an all-new 5.1 Dolby? Digital audio track and more. Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young, and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the bonus material highlights is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film version.

Disc One
RIDLEY SCOTT'S ALL-NEW "FINAL CUT" VERSION OF THE FILM
Restored and remastered with added & extended scenes, added lines, new and cleaner special effects and all new 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio. Also includes:

Commentary by Ridley Scott
Commentary by executive producer/co-screenwriter Hampton Fancher and co-screenwriter David Peoples; producer Michael Deely and production executive Katherine Haber
Commentary by visual futurist Syd Mead; production designer Lawrence G. Paull, art director David L. Snyder and special photographic effects supervisors Douglas Trumbull, Richard Yuricich and David Dryer

Disc Two
DOCUMENTARY DANGEROUS DAYS: MAKING BLADE RUNNER
A feature-length authoritative documentary revealing all the elements that shaped this hugely influential cinema landmark. Cast, crew, critics and colleagues give a behind-the-scenes, in-depth look at the film -- from its literary roots and inception through casting, production, visuals and special effects to its controversial legacy and place in Hollywood history.

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