Some scenes are a few shades lighter though, which in turn reveals more of the lighting, shading and detail in a scene.

Regardless, outside of catching it in the cinema, this is as good as the film will ever look and sound (until we get 8K. All four discs are housed in a 2-disc black UHD case with an identical slip cover with two discs stacked on top of each other.Dubbed the "Enhancement Archive," platter four is filled with deleted footage, more featurettes and promotional materials. The old Dolby mixes of 'Blade Runner' were gimmicky, often bleeding select frequencies to the rear speakers in the most obvious ways possible (whenever a spinner would fly overhead -- whoosh!

I'd never seen him as a jaded detective/assassin assigned to hunt and kill these very human-looking robots. The graphic gore from the old 1982 International version (which was missing from the 1992 Director's Cut) has also been re-added. In the fall of 1992 after I'd turned 10 that summer, not long after the Director's Cut release on home video, my dad introduced me to Blade Runner. Then you meet Leon and his work clothes now have a notable crinkly plastic-like look like a cheap uniform on an old toy making him look even more artificial. Unfortunately, this isn't always the case and the events of Blade Runner revolve around a group of four renegade Replicants who make their way back to Earth and seek their creators within the giant Tyrell corporation.Even some of the older optical shots of models look surprisingly more realistic on this new transfer. It's because of this Director's Cut release on VHS that I learned what Blade Runner even was, let alone come to appreciate it as one of my favorite films. Like the video, the audio here is quite rough, but again, it's from a patched-together library of footage, and probably sounds as good as it ever could. For the rest of the bonus features found on Disc 2 and Disc 4, I will refer you back to our coverage of the previous 2007 Blu-ray release.