Always worth revisiting

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2007)

The landmark science-fiction thriller gets a much-touted Blue-ray release, and for anyone who ever valued what this film did so brilliantly in the first place, deciding on a purchase should not be an issue. When re-watching the slow-paced, visually immersive yarn with superior video clarity it becomes even more apparent that Blade Runner, simply from a production standpoint, remains a high-water mark in visionary design and all but overshadows any technically superior fantasy worlds created thereafter.
Perhaps the lesson Blade Runner can still teach effects-heavy Hollywood is that CGI should rightfully be used to touch up things in post, since we realize how much more completely convincing and authentic things were when they actually had to be physically constructed and implemented. As technology has vastly improved over the past quarter-century, so the imaginations of our biggest and brightest cinematic storytellers shrunken. Never mind the many flaws within Blade Runner movie itself, they all fall by the wayside as we are continually reminded of a time that Hollywood put all of it's guts into sharing a vision with the world.