Rating: 
Summary: It Deserves Better
Review: As with almost all Director's cuts (maybe with the exception of Das Boot and Brazil (Criterion edition)),the film is diminished from its original release. The theatre voiced-over ending was much superior to this one and the unicorn sequence, other than contributing to the speculation that Decker is also Nexus, adds nothing to the film. You would have thought that at least the alternative ending would be on the disk, but sadly there are few extras.Since there were so many possibilites for the DVD edition of the film it is disappointing that Scott and the Studio couldn't make a better product. Under the guise of artistic vision, Scott has taken what was an excellent film and turned it into one that is just ok. If you can find the original VHS tape anywhere grab it.
Rating:
Summary: What's wrong with the sound here?
Review: I am not about to argue the quality of the movie itself. It's brilliant, period. Much better than the original theatrical release. The lack of the dumbing down narration greatly improves the film. That said, this video is unwatchable. The sound is SO bad, it's like listening to an old 78rpm record. Snaps, crackles, hisses. It's just awful. One would assume that what with it being the Director's Cut, SOME attention would have been paid to the sound. One would have been wrong. I wish there was some way to rate both the film and the sound. If there were - 5 stars for movie, 0 stars for sound.
Rating: 
Summary: A masterpiece! sci-fi classic
Review: I look at this film with both a postive and a negative eye. Usually, I wouldn't say a bad thing about this movie, but when writting a review, I must look at both sides. Lets start with somthing simple, like pros and cons. Pros: Effects that still hold water today. Great acting. Deep and emotional plot. Very intense. Artistic value is unsurpassed. Cons: Hard to follow sometimes. Some of the scenes are a little slow paced at times. Overall it's just a little to wierd. Now that were passed that let's review the plot: Sometime in the not so distant future, we created Replicants or "Skin Jobs" to fight our wars, preform covert operations, and due our laundry(just kidding!). kind of like drones, to do our dirty work. of course, we created these miracle machines with far greated strength and acrobatic talents than we have. But replicants were made to copy humans in every way, exept their emotions, you see we made these machines to form their own emotions. But the scientist who created them feared these robot/clones would at some point rebel, So the they decided to creat and expiration date for all replicants, spanning a mear 4 years. Just as the scientist feared, these mechanical saviors turned into mechanical nightmares. The goverment decided to outlaw all replicants, skin jobs were offically outlawed and were shot on sight. We were able to contain most of them but quit a few still romed free, and they even created more. These robots blended quit nicely with the public. Remeber they were made to copy the human race in virtually every way.....................exept their emotions. We began having alot of trouble hunting these renagade bots down. Thus, an alite group of law enforcement officers call Blade Runner units were formed. And to go along with that, we created a test desinged to trick a replicant into giving his identity away by toying with it's emotions. Enter Deckard, a retired Blade Runner unit. Time passed, we got rid of all but four of the menacing clones. Deckards old chief offers him the assingment of killing these four in turn for......nothing? Dust though sense a plot hole? The movie centers on these four reps, and Deckards love interest, who may be a rep herself! Deckard searches, Deckard finds, Deckard shoots, happy ending right? Wrong, The ending is dark and depressing. I wont give it away to you! Do you think im a blabber mouth who doesent know when to shut up?! If you have read all this seemingly endless review.....your right! Overall: A great sci-fi classic, worth not only renting but investing 17 bucks to this fine website to own this masterpiece. (I wont say how much I was paid to say that:) Whoa amazon! Only kidding!
Rating:
Summary: What is human?
Review: A splendid film: Powerful, hypnotic and transcending both the Noir and Sci Fi genres. The visuals and the score by Vangelis are powerful, intense and sublime. The opening scene depicting a dark, futuristic and decadent vista of LA in 2019 is expecially strong, and this effect lingers upon subsequent viewings. The title score resonates through my being as if acquiring a tangible presence, and could almost be sniffed or tasted. Aesthetics aside, the central theme in this film, and to a lessor extent Philip K Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", is what defines human? The replicants in the film are treated like mere machinery, yet express a greater humanity than any "human" characters. It is a question that buries deeply into the viewer's mind and explodes like a stick of dynamite...
Rating:
Summary: 4 for a sound rating !??
Review: I just wanted to say that whoever gave this movie a score of four in the sound category (see above) needs to get with the program. This is one of the best Sci-Fi movies of all time and all it's given is a lousy Dolby 2.0 track instead of a nice Dolby 5.1. The picture quality is excellent but they need to release a new disc with an updated audio track in either 5.1 or DTS.
Rating: 
Summary: Bravo - the Director's Cut
Review: I'd seen the original several times, I'd read mixed review's of the director's cut, I thought I'd need to watch it a couple times at least to decide. Not so. I didn't miss the narration a bit. Killing that single-track voice-over of why Deckard is saved frees up the moment for a world of more interesting musings. The movie grows from a very good futuristic private-eye flick to so much more. Let's hear it for the Director's Cut.
Rating:
Summary: 2019 NOVEMBER : DON JUAN IN LOS ANGELES
Review: About this movie all has been written, in this site too, and in very interesting ways. I would like propose a personal reading. I start from afar : who is the most famous and loved Don Juan? That by Tirso da Molina? Not, he is often quoted but less known. That by Moliere? Not, he is acute too. On!, that by Mozart and Da Ponte! Here really, through "the most beautiful music in the world" and a libretto etched on our memory, we understand Don Juan became a modern hero, he is not the complacent cavalier and the philanderer, but the competing of prissiness and of the foregone life. And women? They are the battlefield of Don Juan! Sure, but attention, please: in the Mozart's opera Don Juan can't manage one performance. We cannot understand what has happened with Anna, and she will be anyway his fall; Elvira hates him; Zerlina, after an engagement, at last dodges...we ca know all the skill of Don Juan only by means of the Leporello's explanations, for the rest we see a hero even on the point of being dominated. 2019 in Los Angeles, captain Bryant explains us Deckard is the best hunter of androids: really he is a magician! But after who can we see? A tired hero, with the perplexed look of Harrison Ford; this character is in the movie less old and bruise than in the Dick's book, but in the movie he is more inconclusive and unawares vulnerable than in the book. Deckard has to erase six androids: Zora is on the point of strangling him but she is diverted by others; Leon is killing him, but Rachel saves Deckard; Pris has already won, but she want to kill him trough her favourite blow, the somersault , and let him the time to save himself; Roy ridicules him and with greatness pardons him. Deckard falls in love with Rachel (the wonderful SeanYoung), the fifth android, and so he solves the problem. (Yes , the androids have to be six...but this is the mystery of the movie: who is the sixth?) Both Don Juan the Cavalier had to hide himself, to flee, to disguise himself, and above all was so inept with women....and Deckard the Hunter takes hails of punches, loses his teeth, has two broken fingers...Both do not hunt, but they are hunted and have to run off. One goes at hell by choice, other change his life by love. The very simple story, the visions, the colours, the music and the last words ("tears in the rain") produces this movie one of the best in the world. I advise the "Director's cut"
Rating:
Summary: oh, the french *sigh*
Review: Great movie. However, does the french guy not realize the entire point of the movie? He toyed with some of the less important points yet failed to comment on the unicorn. *sigh*
Rating: 
Summary: No Narration? The DVD isn't all there.
Review: The directors cut is a nice "flavor" of the Blade Runner movie, but it's the narration that gives the character Deckard human qualities. And what's wrong with that? We can stand on a pedestal and preach how smart we are in watching a movie with no narration, but I personally like the human Deckard. I was disappointed that the "end all to Blade Runner movie" flavors left out the narration. If you were told that the narrated version was really the "Director's Cut", would it add less value to the present "Director's Cut"? The added goodies in the DVD are nice. The sound is great, though getting really digital does make it a little stale. One nice plus about the DVD, is you can pause it to get a look at Los Angeles 18 years from now.
Rating:
Summary: Why did it become so bad?
Review: (This is NOT about the story, characters or the plot) I bought it, saw it and almost hated it. For me, the primary setback is the greatly reduced quality of the film and of the music. In this, the directors cut, it seems the director/editor "forgot" that the music was written for the 'original' film. So for the directors cut it was greatly misplaced in some important places. Since Vangelis music does atleast one third of the movie, this is a disaster. The quality of the film, when displayed from a standard dvd to a standard tv-set is really bad. It looks worce than a bad vhs in the same configuration. Comparred to the LD version this is a total piece of *...(excuse the choice of words). I can not and will not accept this poor quality... And where is all the extras? I rated it a 4 because it still is in my "top 5 movie" list. But do not bye this dvd-version cause it is not worth it.
| 
