1 Crucial Detail Makes Blade Runner's Original Cut The Version You Should Watch First
Blade Runner's theatrical cut might be the worst version of the sci-fi classic, but one element redeems this infamous edit and makes it useful.
The original Blade Runner is a sci-fi neo-noir film set in 2019 in a dystopian cyber-punk society. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard as a Blade Runner for the LAPD, tasked with hunting rogue replicants, genetically engineered humans designed to tackle tasks that human beings cannot. When four replicants go rogue and begin killing humans, Deckard is forced out of retirement to hunt them down and stop them - but the truth isn't as simple as it seems. Deckard will have to reckon with the philosophical dilemma of what makes someone human.
Blade Runner's theatrical cut might be the worst version of the sci-fi classic, but one element redeems this infamous edit and makes it useful.
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