Blade Runner
June 25, 1982 in theaters
In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe."
DID YOU KNOW?
Rutger Hauer improvised the entire 'tears in rain' monologue the night before filming.
THE VERDICT
Synthesized from published reviews
One of the defining works of science fiction cinema -- a film that understood the genre's capacity for philosophical inquiry and used it to ask questions about consciousness, memory, and what constitutes a life worth grieving. Ridley Scott's Los Angeles is one of film's great designed environments, and Rutger Hauer's final monologue remains one of science fiction cinema's most affecting character moments. The film has been revised several times; the Final Cut is the canonical version. Essential science fiction and essential cinema.
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