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Deltamac presents the film in an aspect ratio of 2.35.1 approximately, with anamorphic enhancement. No complaints here as transfer is made from a clean print that maintains a high sense of detail and sharpness.

Audio options are Cantonese Dolby Digital EX, Cantonese DTS ES and Mandarin Dolby Digital EX but as I'm not equipped with such a system, my assessment of this disc aspect will be left off this review. The sections in Thai are intact on the Mandarin track.

The English subtitles contains one or two instances of slightly poor grammar but read very well on the whole otherwise. Traditional Chinese subtitles are also included.

The 2 disc set begins its tour into extras territory on the second platter. Same subtitle options as the feature are thankfully offered up. Teaser trailer and the cinema trailer starts things off but we next come to the obligatory Making Of (15 minutes, 15 seconds). A standard program as far as these things go, Derek Yee and the actors are all interviewed, preaching about the valid message of the film, touching upon their characters, their individual research and there's some production info concerning the choice to shoot in Thailand. Short Version is exactly that, a 4 minutes, 54 second edit of the same program except that it contains a few more revealing behind the scenes shots.

Star Interviews (4 minutes, 24 seconds) contains brief sit downs with Andy Lau, Daniel Wu, Zhang Jing-Chu, Anita Yuen and Louis Koo. Material is repeated as the sessions were done for the Making Of and its brief nature doesn't create any additional depth compared to said program. Only new bits come from Anita Yuen as she was not part of the Making of as such. Coincidentally, she has the best behind the scenes nugget to speak of as she relates to how her pregnancy affected her acting.

About Drugs (3 minutes, 3 seconds) is molded out of the making of structure and focuses extremely little on drugs. In fact, we get basically the same interviews experienced twice before already. An animated Photo Gallery (6 minutes) finishes the thin release.




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