OVERALL: Draw

The R1 "Director's Cut" has the edge over the R2 Scandinavia (Director's Edition) and R4 Australia 2-Disc editions since it includes a 5.1 track on both cuts of the film. With the R1 release, you can also watch the branched "Director's Cut" scenes separately.

Note that the R6 release offers a full bitrate DTS track but only on the Theatrical Cut and it is a vanilla release.

Also note that, while the Director's Cut features a longer 'Tool Shed' scene, the infamous shot of Matrix hitting one of the soldiers with the man's own arm (which Matrix cut off) is not present.

CUTS:

• R1 America- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Theatrical Cut
• R1 Director's Cut America- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts, Contains both the Theatrical (90:10 NTSC) and Director's Cut (91:46 NTSC) versions.
• R2 France- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Theatrical Cut
• R2 Germany- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Theatrical Cut (86:33 PAL).
• R2 Limited Cinedition Germany- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No cuts - Includes the Theatrical Cut (90:15) on Blu-ray and the Director's Cut on DVD (88:04 PAL)
• R2 Holland- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Theatrical Cut.
• R2 Portugal- Castello Lopes Multimédia - Yes, (85:32 PAL) same as the UK R2 cuts (approximately 56 secs)
• R2 Scandinavia- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - Yes, (85:34 PAL) same as the UK R2 cuts (56 secs).
• R2 Director's Cut Scandinavia- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cut's, contains both the Theatrical (86:31 PAL) and Director's Cut (88:04 PAL)
• R2 United Kingdom- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - Yes - (85:34 PAL) Approximately 56 seconds of missing footage in total:
  - 02:01 (4 sec.) Making sure the first target is dead by shooting him again.
  - 21:18 (5 sec.) John Matrix snapping Henriques's neck.
  - 45:31 (14 sec.) Close up of Cooke dying whilst impaled on a table leg.
  - 66:50 (1 sec.) John cutting guard's throat.
  - 67:09 (2 sec.) John cutting another guard's throat.
  - 67:18 (5 sec.) John killing two guards.
  - 68:35 (5 sec.) John shooting two guards.
  - 70:20 (4 sec.) John shooting more guards.
  - 71:36 (2 sec.) John stabbing a guard with a pitchfork in the chest.
  - 71:40 (6 sec.) John using an axe and a machete to dispatch two more guards.
  - 79:16 (2 sec.) Bennett gets a longer electric shock.
  - 79:50 (1 sec.) Pipe hitting Bennett.
  - 79:55 (5 sec.) Panning shot along the pipe protruding from Bennett's chest.
• R4 Definitive Edition Australia- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts, contains both Theatrical (86:31 PAL) and Director's Cut (88:04 PAL) versions.
• R4 Original Release Australia- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - Yes - (85:34 PAL) same as the UK R2 cuts (56 secs).
• R4 Re-Release Australia- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Theatrical Cut (86:34 PAL)
• R4 Brazil- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No Cuts - Theatrical Cut
• R5 Russia- Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment - No cuts - Theatrical Cut (86:34 PAL).
• R6 China- Excel Media - No Cuts - Theatrical cut (90:02 NTSC).

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Comparison added by Adrian_Busby on 22/01/02
Comparison last updated by Ain_Uussaar on 18/11/18

UPDATE LOG:

21/09/11: Added the Scandinavian release. Also, comparison cleanup.
25/09/11: Added Portuguese release.
10/03/13: Added R5 Russia.
08/04/18: Added Germany Cinedition.
18/11/18: Typo and consistency update.