Blade Runner: The Final Cut
2007, R, 117 min.
D: Ridley Scott; with Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah.

Recut more times than a plastic-surgery junkie, Blade Runner: The Final Cut is exactly what its title promises: director Scott’s last word on the subject. Cops and androids fight it out in 21st century L.A. in this Philip K. Dick film adaptation with fabulous art direction. This remastered and subtly rejiggered print is most notable for its inclusion of the “scene with the unicorn” (which seemingly solves one of the film’s central mysteries, which we won’t spoil here). The film remains a landmark spectacle.

This article appears in November 9 • 2007.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.