I finally got a chance to check this out and I’m glad I did. This is an excellent edit and now my preferred way to experience this story. The only thing I would add is I feel like the opening could use music. But I know that’s a stylistic choice and I respect it. Only real issue I had was that there was a lot of digital artifacting in dark scenes. Ben’s nightmare sequence toward the start of the film was probably the worst offender. I watched this on an OLED so I don’t know if that caused it to be more pronounced but it was quite distracting. But otherwise the picture was solid in bright scenes.

Outside of that this is an excellent truncation of the series. You can definitely tell it was originally written to be this length before being stretched out. Excising the bloat has done wonders.

Anyway, fantastic job! This is now my go to version from now on!