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...elements that made the 1992 “Director’s Cut” a flawless film still exist. The plot remains the same: Rick Deckard (Ford) is an exhausted cop in the year 2019, where anyone with wealth or common sense has gone “off-world.” A corporation has developed genetically-engineered quasi-robots called “replicants” for work off-world, and they look, think, and feel exactly like humans—“more human than human,” according to the company?...
...Which is not to say that a deeper understanding is not worth pursuing. Nothing in this cut has altered the troubling notion that replicants, with their passions and loyalties, might actually be more human than human. Nothing, thankfully, has altered the question of whether Deckard himself is or is not a replicant (though Scott had insinuated in recent interviews that the Final Cut would give a definitive answer). Nothing has altered the mind-boggling idea of literally meeting one’s maker, and nothing has explained just what replicant leader Roy (Rutger Hauer) is trying...
...it’s back to the Esper. Deckard finds the clue he needs in his photograph, but we’ll never find exactly what we’re looking for. The true final cut, in which we can actually live inside Scott’s world, exists only in our mind?...
...RICK DECKARD BLADE RUNNER...
...futurist Philip Marlowe, Deckard (Harrison Ford) is assigned to round up some replicants--superrobots who can feel as well as think--in Ridley Scott's brilliant 1982 visualization of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Set in 2019, the film doesn't allow Deckard the brains or heroism of the traditional detective, but it does let him fall in love with a beautiful female robot (Sean Young). Neo-Nick, meet android Nora. --By Richard Corliss