Blade Runner (The Director's Cut) (R, 1982)

Blade Runner is a timeless classic. The special effects were phenomenal for it's time and are up to today's standards. The story is both engaging and extremely thoughtful. This film creates a both realistic and believable look at the future and captures us into the movie. While not one of my favorites, this is a very well done film that I recommend, especially to sci-fi fans, but also, to any lover of good cinema. Parents should know that the atmosphere of this movie is very dark and there are some intense moment of violence. There is a scene where a man is shot twice and flies back in his chair very quickly, which will surprise many viewers. Other violent scenes include a man getting shot in the back of the head, with the front of his head bursting open, a mans face is crushed by another man, a woman is shot many times and breaks through many windows of glass in slow motion, another woman is shot and while yelling very loudly and writhing on the floor, she is shot again repeatedly, a man is bloodily beaten and has a couple of his fingers broken (with loud crunching sounds), and a man stabs himself in the hand with a nail. There is also a scene with a woman taking a shower where you see her bare breasts. As for language, in the final cut, there is one instance of the f-word, in other versions the language is PG.

This is an amazing movie. The scenery is just spectacular, same with the acting and special effects. Please note though, that the violence is pretty graphic, although there is not much of it. The sex is minimal, but the nudity in one scene is a little gratuitous. 15+ if you cry easily, but 13 or 14+ if you are really mature.

blade runner is a very violent sci fi classic that many films want to emulate but none ever will emulate a film that everyone who seen it will remember it forever and the director cut features long lost deleted scenes. and the extras are so in depth you learn lots of stuff that you wanted to konow and never wanted to know. overall A

Certainly the best science fiction film of the 1980s.

This film, from a deeply philosophical person, was beautiful, truly wonderful. It was questioning but not too soppy. It was a bit violent but not too bad although an android is shot and her body graphically convulsive and towards the end the head replicant causes himself harm to prove to himself that he is still alive. I put a good role model as towards the end Roy Batty shows remorse and gives the most hardfelt speech and saves the protaganist, then he releases a dove. YOU MUST WATCH THE DIRECTORS CUT as the original has the most evil and rediculous voice over that the makers put on fearing the americans may not understand the plot which was stupid as americans, I have found, are rather intelligent - they have NASA for pete's sake. All in all its a pretty awesome film.

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.)

The movie raises the question of at what point do robots stop being items and gain humanity. Backed up by the philosophical ideal of "I think therefore I am" the humanoids in this film do seem to think for themselves, so are they in fact their own person? This goes deeper by implying that the protagonist may in fact be humanoid or human but never really stating either as fact. Also at the end as one of the robots is killed he describes some of the beautiful things he has seen in his life he then releases a white bird. He dies or is "retired" as the white bird is shown flying to the sky, symbolic of his soul perhaps being set free. it is a very interesting masterpiece executed in a wonderful fashion, however I am sure none of you care about that because it shows some "naughty" parts that you would never let your child see, so you will post on this site complaining that it should be watered down so 9 year old Suzie will understand it and be able to watch it.

Classic sci-fi!