Really good. I actually saw Final Cut, so it might be slightly different... Highly provocative and philisophical, but also extremely violent and gory. Brief nudity in a strip club (breasts). The last 30 minutes of the movie are extremely intense and creepy. Definately not for anybody younger than 14. (This movie was based on the book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. If you like this movie/book, read Fahrenheit 451 or 1984.)
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Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
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A dark, philosophical sci-fi drama. Older teens +.
updated 07.04.08
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for Ages 15–17
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About Blade Runner (The Director's Cut)
Parents need to know that BLADE RUNNER is at times a very violent film with graphic and slow-motion depictions of people being shot in the head and chest multiple times. The last 20 minutes of the film are particularly violent. There are two instances where sex is implied. The main character witnesses (implied) bestiality in a strip club. There is brief nudity when one of the strippers showers. Drug and alcohol use is at a minimum; however, there is some drinking and smoking by the principal characters.
Read our full review by Afsheen Nomai and Marjorie Kase
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Lives in CaliforniaI rate this title iffy for age 15 and give itMy concerns are:- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Lives in FloridaI rate this title iffy for age 14 and give itMy concerns are:
- Excessive violence
- Inappropriate sexual content
- Lives in PennsylvaniaI rate this title on for age 16 and give it
Certainly the best science fiction film of the 1980s.
- Lives in New YorkI rate this title on for age 2 and give it
This movie surprised me!
I decided to just buy this movie based on a couple reviews on blu-ray. It surprised me because the video quality looked like it could've been made 6 months ago. I liked the film, but I thought that it could've expanded a bit more.
- Lives in IndianaI rate this title on for age 2 and give it
Provocative
This classic is a moving and powerful vision of the future, not to mention a symbolic film with great characters. Sure, there's commercialism, but it adds to the bleakness of the vision.
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