| Universe brings Wilson Yip's film to dvd finally but didn't bother to strike a new print, leaving us with a direct port from, what I assume is, the Laserdisc. The 1.85:1 transfer is fairly clean but soft throughout and muted in terms of colours. Scenes towards the end are very dark as well. This is only a few notches better than the vcd but only a few. Thank god Hong Kong imports are cheap but it's shameful to call something like this a dvd.
The Cantonese 2.0 mono track sounds as it should. Pretty flat but music and dialogue comes through in a decent manner. A Mandarin 2.0 dub is also included.
Subtitles are the original burned in Chinese/English ones. They feature little spelling errors but a number of strange translations. They become a bit faded at times and one scene briefly makes the subtitles unreadable (white on white). I've seen worse and there are a few hilariously subtitled lines from Anthony's character in this film.
There are no extras included. |