Blade Runner Final Cut 4K UHD BD

Seldom does a movie come around that is as popular or more popular than it was decades ago. Blade Runner was a Box Office flop when it originally debuted in 1982. Although the film quickly gained a cultish following of hardcore fans that enjoyed it as an epic Sci-fi classic. Now in 2007 the movie can once again be enjoyed by it's masses. A newly remastered collection of five discs has made it's way to hi-def world. So how does it look and play all these years later. Extremely well. I am probably one of the few to buy this movie who has actually only watched it once before. I was a child when this movie first came out and it was hard to understand how good of a movie this is until now as an adult. The story takes place in a futuristic world set in 2017. From the first moment on you can realize the epic scale this movie was put on. A corporation has created these cyber humans called replicants. Nearly identical to real people they were created to do slave labor. Although the replicants are very human like and that causes problems. Thus brings in Blade Runners. These bounty hunters go searching for rogue replicants. The replicants have been banned from Earth which means the Blade Runner must find any that find there way here. Harrison Ford plays one of the Blade Runner by the name of Rick Deckard. Fresh from his first Indiana Jones movie he shows why he is a action/sci-fi star. Four replicants free themselves from a planet and have come to Earth to search for their maker. From the first moment on this movie begins to raise philosophical questions. Right or wrong and should all replicants be retired(killed) for just being a replicant. Especially when these replicants become so human like. This becomes evident in the character played by Sean Young named Rachael. So human like and yet created by science. Most of the movie appears dark in many scenes, night seems to be when people live in this futuristic world. Despite the darkness much of the color is illuminated in a light blue color which is fascinating to the eyes. The music sets the tone thru the movie in which it can be rather pleasant to sometimes eery. The Blu-ray version of this film is quite a feat. The sheer beauty of it in high definition is the clear vision that Ridley Scott intended. From the first scene to the last you can tell this movie went thru more than a once over. The sound is excellent and really brings out the film. Blade Runner is without a doubt another classic. Although a sci-fi movie the story delves much deeper than that. This is a movie that should be seen by everyone. Any fan of sci-fi or just a good plot will love this movie. Age has only made it better. Without a doubt this is one collection that should be in any Blu-ray movie owners collection. Read more

Blade Runner: The Final Cut [Blu-ray] is a top-notch movie transfer from the masters to Blu-ray, as I can not see any artifacts or grain except in extremely rare places in this movie. I want to say I can also see some "problems" at the beginning in the opening sequence with all the special effects in Los Angeles' futuristic landscape, but the detail is so amazing and the transfer so crisp, that I was hard-pressed to find anything wrong with it. All colors, lines, detail and special effects were pretty much immaculate and very crisp. No annoying blocky dark patches, no fuzzy effects overlaid over the film's original background, nothing. Like I said: I was really trying hard to see any visual problems and I think I just "convinced" myself I could see some in very few places. Whew! The Final Cut is finally here, and I have to say, of all the versions I've seen, this is my favorite. I have owned this movie on VHS, DVD, and now Blu-ray, and I am completely amazed at how good this movie looks on the Blu-ray transfer. I was hesitant to get it. I get tired of all the various versions that keep coming out for movies (and I just see it as a money-making excuse for the production companies to cash-in on a movie, rather than provide anything substantial for fans; yeah, I know, I'm cynical that way). But, I'm a huge Harrison Ford fan...Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Hunt for Red October, Regarding Henry...he's made a lot, but those are my favorites...and I had to have Blade Runner on Blu-ray. I've not seen the other Blu-ray versions, so I can't really comment on their qualities, but I have to say this version of the movie is my favorite. It had been awhile since I'd seen it, and this Blu-ray version and transfer are proud members of my collection now. You want a review of the movie? It's good. Not great, but it's good. It's a dark and brooding glimpse of the underbelly of the future, although I can't see (and hope it doesn't) look like this in the future, 8 years from now. Harrison Ford's job is to terminate ("retire") synthetic human-looking robots that are too human and have been deemed illegal on Earth. Rutger Hauer is in true form as the deranged, psychopathic leader of the replicants that come back to Earth to meet their creator face-to-face and demand that they be given a chance to LIVE! They've been preprogrammed and hardwired for a 4 year lifespan, and they don't like it. Harrison Ford finds himself coming out of pseudo-retirement to bring down these highly dangerous, very lifelike enemies, and soon realizes he has feelings for another replicant...and things get "complicated". This movie is stylistically and artistically a visual treat to watch. Every scene just drips with detail and dark ambiance, whether it's the gorgeous futurerealistic cityscapes, or the dark underbelly of the city in even its rundown environs...it just has a visual style that is interesting to watch. Read more