Please, for the love of cinema, avoid the "Director's Cut"

Rating: 3/10 (30 January 2007)

Don't get me wrong: the Director's Cut is still an ... (searches for a charitable term) ... "interesting" film, but it really does attack much of what was interesting in the original. The idea of time travel only makes sense when you set reason aside, so, please, LEAVE IT ALONE! Back-filling with necessarily half-baked ideas is distracting. The book extracts read like some scripting artifact or plot out-lining device designed to 'set the mood' for actors and technicians; writing NOT designed for the AUDIENCE! ... Please, no one tell me that WAS the source of the prose .. that would simply be too sad ...
And the "PURGE! PURGE!" and 'eye' additions were, as others have noted, just ... plain stupid. My charity gland is spent ... please retract the Director's Cut!
Just don't watch it. Do yourself a favour and watch the original three times instead. No: seriously. The original is freaking awesome.
*** SPOILER WARNING *** My theory is the entire film is an exploration of the last fleeting moment of the main character's lonely life as the engine crashes through his roof: there was no bunny etc. It was all the 'best dream he'd ever had'. He realises that even IF he had a companion, death is inevitable, and everyone dies alone (and you'll not feel more lonely than if the person you're with dies). All his heroic acts were musings on missed opportunity. All you can do is laugh at the paradoxical absurdity of existence.