| The DVD from Mei Ah Entertainment is encoded in the NTSC format with no region coding and will function in any American DVD player. Be wary of reading the mangled-English story summary on the back of the case, which gives away too many plot spoilers. In fact, don't look very closely at the photos either.
Video:
The movie's photography is very slick and polished, and the anamorphically enhanced 1.78:1 video transfer replicates it well. The picture is sharp and detailed with no noticeable edge enhancement. All of the stylized and filtered colors are also vibrantly conveyed. Black level is deep and rich with fine shadow detail and excellent contrast range.
Surprisingly for such a new movie, random print flecks and dirt do show up on rare occasions. They aren't enough to be a serious distraction, fortunately. The digital compression quality is perfectly adequate overall, with just a few minor artifact occurrences.
Audio:
The original Cantonese language soundtrack is available in both Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 options. Both are extremely loud and bassy, with aggressive split-surround imaging. The opening credits montage in particular is a great show-off piece. The sound effects and score are crisply recorded and presented with great fidelity, especially the DTS track. My only note of complaint is that the dialogue sync is sometimes erratic, likely due to sloppy post-production ADR work.
A Mandarin dub track is also available in Dolby Digital 5.1. Subtitles have been provided in English and Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified). The subtitles do not translate the audio snippets during the opening montage. The English translation throughout the movie is simply awful. The garbled grammar and phrasing are barely coherent, and will force you to spend a great deal of the movie thinking through what the characters may have meant to say.
Extras:
Perhaps fittingly, the disc's bonus features are slim pickings indeed. All we get are an anamorphic theatrical trailer and a cast & crew list (just a list, not bios). The same text summary from the back of the case is also reprinted on one of the menu pages.
No ROM supplements have been included either.
Final Thoughts: The all-region DVD from Hong Kong has very good picture and sound, but lousy subtitles. Unfortunately, I don't foresee a better edition coming along any time soon. | 
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