| Hong Kong Legends remastering process wasn't really needed extensively on this movie since it's a fairly recent effort. It's presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen and looks excellent all throughout. The different colours in the cinematography are presented nicely and the clean print looks very natural.
The audio options are Cantonese Dolby Digital 5.1 and an english dubbed 5.1 track as well. It kicked in very nicely during some of the action scenes but remained calm and centeredexcept for ambient sounds in the surround channels at times. I didn't screen the english track.
The disc comes with a nice selection of supplements starting with the audio commentary by Hong Kong Cinema Expert and HKL commentary regular Bey Logan, who is this time joined by the co director of Beast Cops: Gordon Chan. It's a very nice and relaxed discussion about most aspects of the movie. Bey knows what questions to ask and Gordon elaborates further on subjects like casting, behind the scenes-stories, shooting movies in Hong Kong and there's even a discussion about the huge piracy market in Hong Kong. It doesn't have the depth of Beys solo commentaries but we still get a very good insight into the making of this movie.
Three interviews, especially filmed for this dvd, are also included. The first one has Gordon Chan talking about some of his intentions with the movie, his long working relationship with co-director Dante Lam and the failure at the box office among other topics. There are some things here that are also told in the commentary but I thought there was still a lot of new and frank information in here. The interview runs for 15 minutes.
Next up is a much thinner Anthony Wong who honestly doesn't seem too interested in doing this interview. In the beginning his answers are short and unengaging but he opens up a little bit as the interview go on. There are some interesting topics discussed though, like his fairly unknown kung fu-skills, filming Beast Cops and his perception of Hong Kong cinema today. This piece lasts 19 minutes.
The final interview comes from supporting actress Stephanie Che who talk about her experinces making her first movie, what it felt like to get nominated and her favourite Hong Kong action movie of all time. Stephanie looks great and is more than willing to talk in great lengths about her participation in Beast Cops. Her interview runs for 15 minutes.
All of the above interviews are presented in anamorphic widerscreen and they're all in english.
Other extras include a pretty useless 32 page, photo gallery, HKL's promotional trailer for this movie and also the original theatrical trailer. In the Further Attractions-section you'll find HKL-trailers for Miracles, Game Of Death, Iron Fisted Monk, In The Line Of Duty, Eastern Condors, Magnificient Butcher, Hong Kong 1941, Once Upon A Time In China 3, Purple Storm & Game Of Death 2. |