Blade Runner
A blade runner must go after some replicants who escape to earth with a space ship.
10 January 1944, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
3 July 1912, Hilo, Hawaii, USA
15 July 1927, Brooklyn, New York, USA
20 November 1959, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
22 February 1929, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
22 March 1935, Ogdensburg, New York, USA
3 February 1902, Tokyo, Japan
23 January 1944, Breukelen, Utrecht, Netherlands
3 December 1960, Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 05, 2016
Like Nolan's INCEPTION and Kubrick's 2001, Scott's works are really shallow, action set pieces masquerading as profound science fiction.
August 02, 2015
A masterpiece of dystopian science fiction on film.
August 02, 2015
The contradictions that plague the movie are apparent from the outset.
June 25, 2012
A motion picture masterpiece on the short list of Reasons Why This Medium is Worthwhile.
August 22, 2008
As a display terminal for the wizardry of Designers Lawrence G. Paull, Douglas Trumbull and Syd Mead, the movie delivers.
August 02, 2015
Too bad the filmmakers didn't try to recapture the modest virtues of the Dick novel, which (despite many flaws of its own) has a humor and humanity that are nowhere felt in 'Blade Runner.
February 22, 2008
Paradoxically, Scott's crowded, misty, neon streetscape seems even murkier; fuzz I chalked up to VHS tapes is production designer Lawrence G. Paull dumping ashtrays in the air.
September 07, 2011
This is perhaps the only science-fiction film that can be called transcendental.
August 02, 2015
Even when over the top, Scott's uncompromisingly disorienting film is a singularly hallucinatory experience and nothing short of exhilarating.
June 11, 2012
It takes a particularly weird kind of sincerity to end a movie that has been for its entire running time an exploration of surfaces... with its most sublime and humane gesture.
August 02, 2015
Film noir cubed, science fiction a step beyond 2001.
August 05, 2013
They all plod along while sometimes dazzling, sometimes boring special effects whiz by and Ford's climactic confrontation with Hauer approaches. Instead of tension building, though, things are grinding to a halt, including Hauer's gears.
