For one thing, I know Blade Runner pretty much backwards at this point, and I can go for a few years without watching it. Warner certainly rights past wrongs for 'The Final Cut' here, delivering a truly splendid new Dolby TrueHD 5.

Blade Runner is set in a dystopian future where synthetic humans, known as Replicants, are used as slave labor on off-Earth colonies.Blade Runner' finally sounds spatially alive and vibrant, with surrounds that now live and breathe -- just as it should be. This long-anticipated follow-up to Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic struggled to connect with viewers . Among the bonus features is Dangerous Days, a brand new, three-and-a-half-hour documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of the film: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy.

As such, the video quality boasts the same wonderful colors, jaw-dropping depth and excellent black levels. Blade Runner stands alongside Alien as one of Ridley Scott’s best films, and this 4K Blu-ray release is a fitting representation of his vision. For more about Blade Runner and the Blade Runner Blu-ray release, see Blade Runner Blu-ray Review published by Ben Williams on December 31, 2007 where this Blu-ray release scored 5. Blade Runner is present only in its Final Cut iteration on this Blu-ray disc, and is presented in 2. Similarly, as Deckard performs his question test on Rachael, her voice actually appears to be coming from the upper right quadrant of your screen - exactly where it’s supposed to.

To this day I can't watch one without thinking about the other and then weighing the idea of watching both movies together. If you’re expecting a film this old to look absolutely brand new, then you’re on a hiding to nothing. The original elements have clearly been rehabbed from the ground up, with a flawless print that has had all dirt and blemishes removed, (which is doubly impressive considering how many optical effects there are in the film). Clarity in the foreground is superb, in the background the image tends to fade into shadow, while dark detail and contrast varies from scene to scene.

I've seen the film at least 50 times over the years (seriously), and was absolutely floored by how many visual elements I'd simply never seen before. This is backed up to some extent by the fact that the ‘fizziest’ scenes tend to be those in fairly dark interior settings. Blade Runner follows Harrison Ford’s Rick Deckard, an ex-cop in Los Angeles, 2019, who’s brought back into the fold to find and 'retire' (i. All four discs are housed in a 2-disc black UHD case with an identical slip cover with two discs stacked on top of each other.

The bonus features package is a huge missed opportunity as it merely recycles previous discs with most of those bonus features appearing only in SD on DVDs. That is a goof up that should be fixed for all retail copies come release day so the average consumer will only get the 4K disc, The Final Cut Blu-ray, and Disc 2 and Disc 4 of the 2007 set. Ultimately, Blade Runner on Blu-ray looks amazing and is, most likely, the best the film is ever going to look. This is also one of the few discs that my Blu-ray player remembers even after it is ejected, so I can stop the film halfway through and come back to it the next day.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut on Ultra HD Blu-ray arrives in pristine condition, although the lack of substantial extras is a disappointment (you'll want the Special Edition (! anniversary version, originally released in 2008, of the iconic sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner, director Ridley Scott has gone back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive new version.In my review for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, I opened by discussing the difficulties of discussing a classic piece of cinema.