| Mei Ah provides a surprisingly strong 1.85:1 letterboxed transfer. The beginning parts of the film suffer from some heavy print damage but the rest is clean. The strong brown of the cinematography gets a good treatment and blacks were surprisingly strong for a HK dvd and even a Mei Ah dvd!
As always Mei Ah provides a 5.1 and 2.0 Dolby Digital options for the cantonese and mandarin tracks. The cantonese Dolby Digital 2.0 track sounded ok but I would've liked something more spread out for this kind of movie. Still better than a terrible 5.1 remix.
The english subtitles are of good quality with hardly any errors to be found. Korean, malaysian, japanese, vietnamese, indonesian, thai, traditional chinese and simplified chinese subitles are also included.
Extras include the always useless Data Bank which consists of a plot synopsis plus a cast & crew listing. Trailers for Hard Boiled and The East Is Red are on the disc but strangely no trailer for Peace Hotel.
The remastered Mei Ah dvd represents the theatrical cut of the film. In other words, it's missing the hotel shoot out that was added for the laserdisc and the old dvd edition of the film. Have not confirmed myself if the Taiwan version contains this added scene. |