I Will Use My Dying Breath To Argue the Unfair Rotten Tomatoes Score for This Ridley Scott and Tom Cruise Fantasy Flick

Ridley Scott has made multiple films that became reclaimed cult classics due to his director's cut adjustments. Films like Blade Runner and Kingdom of Heavengot muted initial responses when viewed in their original theatrical release forms, only to gain more notoriety when his full vision was finalized. Of all his films, the one that got the most drastic flip in perception courtesy of his alternate cut changes is Legend. A fantasy epic led by a pre-Top Gun Tom Cruiseand Tim Curryin top camp form, Legend was a box-office bomb that was trashed by initial critics, as reflected by its 43% Rotten Tomatoes score. It's a score that the film doesn't truly deserve anymore, since those reviews were directed at the mangled theatrical cut, while Scott's director's cut gave the film a massive glow-up that has since been fully christened as the "true" version. I'll just say it: the theatrical cut is a confusingly crammed mess, while the director's cut is a gloriously operatic fantasia.