Blade Runner: The Final Cut – Film Review

Ridley Scott's vision of a drizzly dystopian metropolis remains completely intoxicating

Released in 2007 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary and now back in cinemas after the announcement of a sequel, Blade Runner: The Final Cut is the only version over which director Ridley Scott had total artistic control. With the clunky voiceover and studio-inserted “happy ending” that marred the 1982 original removed, the haunting story based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? is allowed to unfold with fascinating ambiguity. It follows special agent Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) as he hunts four replicants (androids) in a futuristic LA. Scott’s vision of a drizzly dystopian metropolis remains intoxicating and Deckard’s final encounter with replicant leader Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) is stunning.

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