I've just upgraded my 7 rating for this movie to a 10 having seen the excellent 2.1 cut, much better than the original.

Its amazing what sacrifices a studio is prepared to make all for the sake of shaving off a few minutes from a movie. With those moments restored this movie has gone up immeasurably in my estimation.

That's not to say the original was bad, its just that this is so much better.

All the characters seem 'fuller' and the story telling is greatly assisted, the movie fires on all cylinders and forms a much more cohesive whole, I always thought that, in the original, the human story was very good but the whole super hero/villain thing was tacked on ... not so now, the comic book stuff now complements and forms part of the bigger story.

Great stuff and definitely worth watching if you haven't seen it already.