This director's cut takes a mediocre film and, in my opinion, makes it really good. The subplots added flesh out the secondary cast in fun and interesting ways, and the movie feels more like an actual story and less like a run-of-the-mill checklist of genre bullet points. Not quite in the league of the best superhero films of the soon two decades of ever-increasing superhero film output that followed since, but at its time this director's cut took a forgettable film and made it one of the best in its league. ( )