Brian278
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The director's cut version right? 'cos I agree, the cinema version was poor - the DC version was deemed to be too long (to be fair it is almost 3 hours) so they cut out some quite key scenes, making the story seem very weird and non-sequential. I can see why some people don't like it - Orlando Bloom's hardly a heavyweight actor (tho I thought he was much more impressive here than in Pirates of the Caribbean) and it does have a bit of dramatic licence. But clearly Scott was trying to make a masterpiece, and send a message out to the modern world at the same time. Even if he didn't succeed (its not the best film of all time admittedly) I still think he did a pretty gd job
I did see the cinema version. And admittedly, I often have the sense when watching recent historical/fantasy epics that Peter Jackson raised the bar so high that it will be a few years before any of them are impressive to me again in the action department.