it’s darker, grimier and altogether more cyberpunkier than the original versions. It’s one of the most immersive films I’ve ever seen and blew me away when I first saw it at the cinema all those years ago. Finally restored to its original structure and format, dumping the hideous voiceover and all the other gimmicky things used to make it easier to view, Bladerunner creates its own world and references lots of noir and expressionist films. Rachel is perhaps one of the saddest characters ever to grace a cinema screen as she realises that her whole identity is founded on a fiction.

This really is cinema as high art and should be viewed immediately if you have never seen it before, preferably on a huge screen with a kick ass sound system.