After the eye transplant scene, Peter Stormare's character repeatedly says to Tom Cruise, "If you take off the bandages before twelve hours, you'll go blind." He says it at least twice, and then, as Cruise is drifting to sleep, the line is repeated again as sort of an echoed memory. So the time comes when the spyders force the bandage from Cruise's left eye, and we as the audience, due to all the hints given to us, think to ourselves, "Oh my God, he's gonna go blind!" And then, they actually cut to a shot of the timer. "Oh no!," we say to ourselves, "Only six hours have passed! He is going to go blind!"...

And then.... nothing. No mention of it again, ever, throughout the rest of the movie. Why? Was this some plot point that was for some reason edited out of the final cut? Or are we simply to assume Cruise was blind in one eye, even though absolutely no mention of it is made? And attentive audience members will recall back to the scene in the dark alley, where the eyeless man says, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king." Well, that would be brilliant!… If only the filmmakers had followed through with what they began.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

I was under the impression that Anderton was blind in one eye after that scene...

Yes, blind in one eye (knowing he would lose sight if unbandaged early, he carefully uncovers only one eye) and then yes, the "one-eyed man is king".

[Johnny Carson] I did not know that [/Johnny Carson]

He was blind in one eye? I only saw it once so I don't remember that being referenced in the movie. Care to expand anyone?

I just watched it tonight... not sure if he was blind in one eye (I'm assuming he was). Also, one of his original eyes rolls down the sewer, but he saves his other one. Maybe we are to assume he has one "Mr. Sakamoto" eye (I think that was the name), and then one of his originals at the end?

I believe this is what's referred to as a "flub."

One of several in that movie, unfortunately.