| Quite a clean 1:85:1 print, VERY little grain, though there is a little colour bleed with the reds and some noticeable trails, but, taking into consideration what crap HK companies release, this is pretty good. I chose this disc over the Hong Kong Legends disc, basically becuase of the cuts. I wanted a good uncut version, and this was the only one. The BBFC cut the Sammo stealing the car scene (which is shown in the Sammo Hung animated biography on the Encounters Of The Spooky Kind HKL dvd) plus a line of dialogue involving a rape joke.
Cantonese and mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks are included. I didn't really listen to the Mandarin soundrack, so I can't really comment for all of you mandarin speakers, but the cantonese track is quite good. Dialogue is clear, sound effects brash and bold and the music is clear also, with no noticeable hissing.
English subtitles are included with the disc. As with many HK discs, the english subs have very noticeable grammar errors and spelling mistakes, and also don't explain the cantonese humour very well. They are the right size though and easy to read.. Overall, weak, but are ok for HK standards. Also included are simplified chinese, traditional chinese, japanese, korean, Malaysia, thai, indonesian and vietnamese subtitles.
As usual with HK discs, you get the Star's Files (Jackie, Yuen Biu and Sammo) in English and Chinese, plus trailers for The Young Master, Meals on Wheels and Dragons Forever. I'm very happy with the print & audio, but on the ok side for a HK disc, the extras & subtitles. |
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