Cinematical anmelder Blade Runner The Final Cut. Visuelt skulle der ikke være noget at udsætte. Men der er også pillet ved plottet. Anmelderen – Ryan Stewart – skriver blandt andet:
“This final cut isn’t just a restoration of the visuals, though — it’s a plot restoration as well, and one that I find completely stupid and unnecessary. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then I don’t know where you’ve been for the last twenty years, so I have no compunction about spoiling it for you. Ridley Scott feels that Deckard, Harrison Ford’s Philip Marlowe of the future, is a replicant, just like the replicants he’s chasing. It was always his prerogative to think this, even though it doesn’t fit into the framework of the story, but now he’s made his interpretation of it the definitive one. Instead of the film ending with Deckard spiriting Sean Young to safety in the woodsy wherever, he now learns that a vision that had haunted his dreams, of a galloping unicorn, is known to his fellow Blade Runners. They know he’s a replicant, and they’ll be coming for him. As this realization dawns on Deckard at the end of the new cut, he grabs Sean Young and slams the door closed — smash cut to end titles.”
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