| Joy Sales presents the film in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, with anamorphic enhancement. The transfer is clean, colourful and sufficiently detailed.
The audio options are Cantonese/Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1, Cantonese/Mandarin DTS 5.1 and Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 but as I'm not equipped with such a system, my assessment of this disc aspect will be left off this review.
The English subtitles contains minor grammar errors but read well on the whole. Traditional and simplified Chinese subtitles are also included.
Extras include a 21 minute, 45 second deleted scenes-reel that can either be played as a supplement or branched into the feature stream. Presented in non-anamorphic widescreen and Cantonese/Mandarin Dolby Digital 2.0 audio (Huo Siyan has not been dubbed here), the scenes aren't edited to exclude clapperboards and director Lau yelling action or cut so to have them connected to the feature makes the flow disappear. Blessed with the same subtitle options as the feature therefore, 14 clips (with a handful containing multiple scenes within each) of various deletions/extensions are offered up but little is of crucial use. Among those that are, Lau Ching-Wan does an uninterrupted acting show in front of a mirror and his physical relationship with Candice Yu's QiQi is elaborated on a little bit more. Perhaps the most interesting narrative-wise is a whole subplot concerning Poon's suicidal thoughts, leading to a fantasy sequence that has Ekin Cheng dishing out advice.
The Making Of (15 minutes, 17 seconds) is virtually unwatchable with English subtitles as Joy Sales has made them transparent with a vague outline (the program appears in letterbox format with one line of subs on the image and the other in the black bar). Re-authoring the program so that it includes white subs, it's revealed that it's still a standard program with little standouts. Cast talks story, characters and views on acting while the filmmakers are given little time to express anything valuable. The program is good for an insight into the confusion of shooting movies within movies but it's still a one time viewing experience. Trailers for My Name Is Fame and Dog Bite Dog concludes the extras. |