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Blade Runner (1982)

"Man has made his match... now it's his problem."
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👍 87%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 86%
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Runtime
1h 58m
Rated
R
Country
United States of America, Hong Kong, United Kingdom
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.9/10 (14,784 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
89%
Metacritic
84

Cast

Harrison Ford as Deckard · 75% avg
Rutger Hauer as Batty · 75% avg
Sean Young as Rachael · 71% avg
Edward James Olmos as Gaff · 75% avg
M. Emmet Walsh as Bryant · 72% avg
Daryl Hannah as Pris · 71% avg
William Sanderson as Sebastian · 74% avg
Brion James as Leon · 74% avg

Is Blade Runner good?

Yes. 87% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics agree, scoring it 86%.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#96 / 1040 · Science Fiction
Rank in its year
#9 / 38 · 1982
Rank among its director's films
#5 / 27 · Ridley Scott

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Blade Runner is a 1982 American science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Set in a dystopian Los Angeles in November 2019, the film follows Rick Deckard, a retired "blade runner" played by Harrison Ford, who is coerced back into service to hunt down and "retire" four escaped replicants — bioengineered beings virtually indistinguishable from humans — who have returned to Earth seeking a way to extend their artificially limited four-year lifespans. Led by the formidable Roy Batty, played by Rutger Hauer, the replicants' quest to confront their creator and extend their existence becomes a meditation on mortality, consciousness, and what it means to be human.

Blade Runner was a commercial disappointment upon its original release, earning $41 million against a $28 million budget, and received mixed reviews from critics who found its pace slow and its narrative opaque. Over the following decades, however, the film underwent one of cinema's most dramatic critical reappraisals, eventually being recognized as one of the greatest and most influential science fiction films ever made. The film exists in seven known versions, the most significant being the 1992 Director's Cut and the 2007 Final Cut, which removed the studio-mandated voiceover narration and happy ending that Scott had never wanted.

Rutger Hauer's dying monologue as Roy Batty — "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" — which the actor partly improvised on set, is considered one of the most poignant moments in cinema history. Vangelis's synthesizer score became iconic in its own right.

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