Blade Runner 1982 Final Cut Review

Score Rating – 9/10
Original Release Date – ‎June 25, 1982
Final Cut Release Date – September 5, 2017 on Blu-Ray
Pros – Fantastic Cinematography, Deep Narrative, Cult Classic
Cons – Some Tedious Parts

SUMMARY – In the early twenty-first century, the Tyrell Corporation, during what was called the Nexus phase, developed robots, called replicants, that were supposed to aid society, the replicants which looked and acted like humans. When the superhuman generation Nexus 6 replicants, used for dangerous off-Earth endeavors, began a mutiny on an off-Earth colony, replicants became illegal on Earth. Police units called blade runners have the job of destroying – or in their parlance retiring – any replicant that makes its way back to or created on Earth, with anyone convicted of aiding or assisting a replicant being sentenced to death. It’s now November, 2019 in Los Angeles. Rick Deckard, a former blade runner, is called out of retirement when four known replicants, most combat models, have made their way back to Earth, with their leader being Roy Batty. One, Leon, tried to infiltrate his way into the Tyrell Corporation as an employee, but has since been able to escape. Beyond following Leon’s trail in hopes of finding and retiring them all, Deckard believes part of what will help him is figuring out what the replicants wanted with the Tyrell Corporation in trying to infiltrate it. The answer may lie with Tyrell’s fail-safe backup mechanism. Beyond tracking the four, Deckard faces a possible dilemma in encountering a fifth replicant: Rachael, who works as Tyrell’s assistant. The issue is that Tyrell is experimenting with her, to provide her with fake memories so as to be able to better control her. With those memories, Rachael has no idea that she is not human. The problem is not only Rachael’s assistance to Deckard, but that he is beginning to develop feelings for her.

REVIEW – It is a cinematic masterpiece, it developed a cult following after its initial release, the original release was met with somewhat mixed reviews because of cringey writing and studio interference, that ultimately destroyed the director’s vision of the movie, the original release was also over the budget. But after the initial release it was one of the most influential movies of all time, it influenced classics like The Matrix, Ghost In The Shell(1998), Akira(1988) and many other classics. The subgenre of cybperpunk-neo noir was at an all time in the late 90s and 80s. When I watched it for the first time, it was very confusing because of my lack of attention when I watched it, but I was still intrigued by what happened, so I gave it another watch and another and slowly but surely I fell in love with it, The question that the movie presents on “What Makes Us Human?”, It was such an intriguing take on that particular subject, the movie presented it well, I was so amazed by it. And the movie had one of the most beautifully tragic soliloquy of all time and the character of Roy Batty played by Rutger Hauer was so well portrayed and the tragedy that followed the replicants throughout the whole movie was so heart-wrenchingly sad, that the main antagonist outshined the arc of the main protagonist, The character Rick Deckard played by was somewhat bland but I feel like he was a character that was needed to be there in order to see the world in a new lens. It is the reason why this is one of my favorite films of all time, Whenever I watch it again I never get tired of it, I always see little details of the movie. This movie ain’t for everyone because it can be very boring at some times and slow paced just so you could immerse yourself with a particular scene, the acting is also weirdly good, the way they speak in certain speak almost dream like in some scenes. This movie is a special one and I highly recommend you watch it with no expectations whatsoever and watch it multiple times if you wanna see the full picture. Watch the final cut it is the best version for me. That will be all…..

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