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As expected, great editorial choices by Bobson here, from the use of trailer footage to craft a more fun, less creepy, title sequence, to the excision of that utterly out-of-place kiss at the end, and many other welcome tweaks throughout, this is a much more streamlined, not to mention cleaned-up, edition of this seminal film. (My lone complaint is the loss of Bob Balaban's "before I got paid to speak French..." line, which I always thought was a fun nod to his accidentally having been "abducted" himself into this mission, but that aside, this is easily my favourite version of one of the better "baby boomer existential crisis" Spielberg movies -- no offense, Hook fans.