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I did see the recent Blade Runner theatrical release (at the Ziegfield, no less). The graphics were cleaned up a lot, and Scott cut out about 5-10 seconds (one memorable line and a couple of snippets in...I think two scenes)(nothing that wrecks the film though). On balance, this is the Director's Cut (1990s-vintage), but one that looks a lot better. So yeah, naturally I like the latest version best.

Deckard being a replicant a) makes for a deeper story and b) is Ridley Scott's stated intention. Officially. He says that in interviews all the time (or did, when the film got released recently). I think he went a little too subtle in signalling this in the film itself, at least so far as "mainstream" audience is concerned, but from my perspective "it's all good..."

On topic - curiously enough, "Legend" did not strike me as being quite as deep as "28 Days" (the first one - I am yet to see the second one) - but then "28 Days" was done by the guy who did "Trainspotting", so you'd expect some social commentary on the side anyway. Other than that, and literally three "Hollywoodian" moments (e.g. they could have done the last 60-120 seconds of the movie completely differently)(yeah, there are also I think two instances where the "ammo count" bug pops up - meaning, more rounds are fired off a single clip than is physically possible - but whatever, no biggie), the film was fine. Actually, much better than what you'd usually expect Hollywood to do with this story, and, I think, Smith's finest work today (of course, it's not like he had a lot of films where he'd had the opportunity to act - lthough I was impressed by "I Am Robot" in this respect).