Blade Runner: Final Cut

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer
Genre: Sci-Fi
Year: 1982
Release: UK Ultimate Collectors tin box

Ridley Scott's vision of a future that's cluttered, somewhat decayed, and seemingly permanently dark and wet, is a thing of beauty indeed. The whole environment looks jury-rigged, and created on the fly. Only very loosely based on Philip K Dick's novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, this is mainly the vision of Scott. In case you don't know, a group of latest generation, Nexus 6, 'replicants' (they're not androids, as such), have escaped, and are loose on Earth. Ford is the Blade Runner, cops who specialise in hunting them, called out of retirement, to catch them. Very philosophical in it's approach, this film is very dark, and full of deep, meaningful (and very quoteable) snippets and monlogues. Hauer gives the performance of his career, as the leader of the group. Ford is great as Decker, slightly vunerable, and not the invincible supercop that let this kind of film down so often. This version, the Final Cut, is the second re-do, of the film that more or less invented the Directors Cut. The DC is better than the theatrical release, imho. This is, basically, just the DC, with the violence cuts re-instated, and a load of continuity errors fixed. This release, however, has all 3, plus workprints, so, even if you're one of those weirdo's that prefer the theatrical release, it's in there.
Required viewing.