Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #459 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-12-03
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
• Formats: Box set, PAL, Special Edition
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 113 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
To call this cut of Blade Runner `long awaited' would be a heavy, heavy understatement. It's taken 25 years since the first release of one of the science-fiction genre's flagship films to get this far, and understandably, Blade Runner: The Final Cut has proved to be one of the most eagerly awaited DVD releases of all time.

And it's been well worth the wait. Director Ridley Scott's decision to head back to the edit suite and cut together one last version of his flat-out classic film has been heavily rewarded, with a genuinely definitive version of an iconic, visually stunning and downright intelligent piece of cinema. Make no mistake: this is by distance the best version of Blade Runner. And it's never looked better, either.

The core of Blade Runner, of course, remains the same, with Harrison Ford's Deckard (the Blade Runner of the title) on the trail of four `replicants', cloned humans that are now illegal. And he does so across an amazing cityscape that's proven to be well ahead of its time, with astounding visuals that defied the supposed limits of special effects back in 1982.

Backed up with a staggering extra features package that varies depending on which version of this Blade Runner release you opt for (two-, four- and five-disc versions are available), the highlight nonetheless remains the stunning film itself. Remastered and restored, it remains a testament to a number of creative people whose thinking was simply a country mile in advance of that of their contemporaries. An unmissable purchase. --Jon Foster

DVD Description
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of iconic sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner, the 5-Disc Ultimate Collectors' Edition is the definitive Blade Runner collection. Packaged in a lenticular collectible tin with art cards and even a letter from director Ridley Scott, the Collectors' Edition brings together for the first time all five versions of the film, including Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which saw Ridley Scott go back into post production to create the long-awaited definitive version of the classic film.

The 5-Disc Ultimate Collectors' Edition also includes an entire disc with hours of enhanced content, including new featurettes and galleries devoted to more than 45 minutes of deleted and alternate scenes recently discovered in deep storage and approved by Ridley Scott. There is also background on author Philip K. Dick, script development, abandoned sequences, conceptual design, anaylsis of the overall impact of the film and how it lead to the birth of cyberpunk.

Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Edward James Olmos, Joanna Cassidy, Sean Young and Daryl Hannah are among some 80 stars, filmmakers and others who participate in the extensive bonus features. Among the highlights is "Dangerous Days", a brand new, feature-length documentary by award-winning DVD producer Charles de Lauzirika, with an extensive look into every aspect of Blade Runner: its literary genesis, its challenging production and its controversial legacy. The definitive documentary to accompany the definitive film collection.

Also being released at the same time:
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2-Disc Special Edition)
Blade Runner: The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
Blade Runner: The Final Cut [HD DVD]

Synopsis
It is 2019 and genetically made beings known as replicants exist as slaves and prostitutes in the off-planet colonies. Despite possessing such human traits as intelligence and virtual emotion, they are limited by a four-year life span which forces them to question their mortality. Four escaped replicants, led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer, THE HITCHER), arrive in Los Angeles to confront their designer, Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel). Hot on their trail is world-weary assassin--or 'blade runner'--Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford, INDIANA JONES), who has come out of retirement especially for this case. His objective is to hunt down and liquidate the four renegade androids before they have a chance to exact revenge on their cruel human oppressors. In the course of his search, Deckard becomes romantically entangled with Tyrell's lovely assistant Rachael (Sean Young)--who may not be all that she seems--and a dramatic face-off with Batty is inevitable. Director Ridley Scott's hauntingly prescient vision of the not-too-distant future is a stark revelation: a dark, polluted, overcrowded dystopia dominated by cloud-piercing buildings and looming neon billboards, the air dense with acid rain and flying traffic. Based on the novel DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? by Philip K Dick, BLADE RUNNER boasts astonishingly rich art direction, juxtaposing ingenious technological gadgetry with yellowing photographs and fetishist objets d'art as it touches on questions of time, memory, identity, and mortality.

Customer Reviews

THE 'FINAL CUT' / 'DIRECTOR'S CUT' LOSES EVERYTHING THAT IS TRULY GREAT ABOUT BLADE RUNNER ---- ITS HUMANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Blade runner's 1982, 'Theatrical Cut', is a deeply human film. So: do what I do: put up with the unsubtle voice-over and end the film when Rachael and Deckard enter the elevator to escape: press STOP, then, and end it.
This 1982 version - viewed like this, in my humble opinion - is a truly amazing film: brimming with humanity in a desolate, nightmare world that is sadly becoming more and more of a reality - for all of us - here on the real, awful Planet Earth, 2008.
I feel - very, very strongly - that Director Ridley Scott had the future of the world in his hands . . . but . . . NOW . . . with 'The Final Cut'. . . he has ruined it for all of us!!!!!!!

Blade Runner: From Script to 2007 Final Cut - Master Work!
I have not finished watching all five discs yet. I am, however, stunned and delighted by the 2007 cut. The gaffs I thought were there are now very cleverly disguised, or simply not extant in the final cut. My pet gaffe was a scene where Deckert takes a look down at the street with a drink in his hand after retiring one of the Replicants. Earlier cuts made him look like one of those toys which dunk into your cocktail, and bob back up ad tedium. With clever colour timing and tinting, this is far from evident. Also, a major obstacle to buying an ultimate collector's version of this film down here in Australia is that they seem to insist in using a negative, or master, which has the vast opening scene of Hades Canyon (2019 Los Angeles)scratched with white flecks which ran through ALL editions I've seen in Region 4 on DVD, VCR, or in cinema. I'm delighted to see that problem is a regional one, because there's no such problem in these pressings. They were on EVERY pressing or copy I'd previously bought here in Australia. The detail, the memories, the interviews all contribute to a deep perspective to what an achievement "Blade Runner" was to modern Cinema both then, and now. It was the "last analog Sci Fi movie ever made" - and as such, set an astonishing benchmark for ALL films in the Sci Fi genre which followed it. If you really loved the movie, this is the version to buy. If you just want to see the difference between the 92 and the 2007 cut, then the double is for you. I would, however, strongly suggest you would end up appreciating what a masterpiece this film is if you made the stretch, and bought the five DVD tin package set. I thought I would regret my largesse, but I honestly do not. There's nothing extraneous in this product. This is not only every cut of Blade Runner going, but a deep and revealing perspective into the making of one of the most innovative, and well-loved cult movies ever made. Extraordinary stuff!

Does it get any better than this?
Great stuff and a fabulous boxset. Can only reiterate all the excellent reviews already given.

On the downside, I had to buy it via ebay as the cowboys based in Jersey that Amazon should really drop (preferably from a great height) recently sent us an email stating that it was undeliverable. What utter nonsense!

And what a palaver trying to get through to the dreadful Amazon call centre to report the fact that we were still awaiting delivery. We were virtually called liars and grudgingly accepted a refund.

The result is that we ended up paying nearly £10 more than originally, we have lost total faith in Amazon and the idiots at Jersey really couldn't organise the proverbial pi$$-up in a brewery!

If you see the words Indigo Starfish when you are buying via Amazon, then don't go there. They give a whole new meaning to the word incompetent.