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Blackjack [1993] [DVD]

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3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Japanese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Dubbed: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Manga Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 12 May 2003
  • Run Time: 90 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00008V6ZJ
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,187 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

Reviews

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The director and action-magician John Woo (Face/Off) can always be counted on to create spectacular violent set pieces, with bodies and broken glass gracefully airborne in slow motion. But everything else in this feature-length TV pilot is grindingly conventional. Woo managed to rise above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, but there's not much he can do with Dolph Lundgren's Jack Devlin, a kick-boxing former U.S. Marshall turned bodyguard, assigned to guard the body of a drug-addicted supermodel (Kam Heskin, from TV's Sunset Beach). Between shootouts, the elements of the future series are wheeled creakingly into place: a spacious Ikea deluxe apartment with a built-in armoury, a caustic eye-patched sidekick (Saul Rubinek), and even a precocious freckle-faced girl (Padraigin Murphy) who becomes Devlin's stepdaughter, when his best buddy is rubbed out. The gorgeous showdown scene between Devlin and the psycho-stalker bad guy (Phillip MacKenzie) takes place in a milk-bottling plant, with the white stuff splashing all over--but this is TV fare, so there's no red stuff mixed in. Action addicts are advised to stick with the world-class gunplay films of Woo's Hong Kong period, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled. --David Chute

Product Description

Black Jack is a mysterious surgeon with super-advanced skills who charges large sums of money for performing his operations before vanishing from the scene completely. When a number of Super Humans, with extraordinary mental and physical powers, come to prominence, Black Jack uncovers a conspiracy behind their phenomenon, and discovers that mankind has come under threat from a killer virus.


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS MOVIE! 23 Mar 2004
Format:DVD
After hearing very mixed reviews of this film I was unsure whether or not I should risk viewing it. After finally deciding that I should give it the benefit of the doubt I was pleasantly surprised to find how good it really was. Although there is little action until the movie's climax, it is gripping enough to keep you on the edge of your seat as Dr. Blackjack tries to solve the mysterious disease that effects the people who had once been reffered to as 'Superhumans'. Some of the scenes in Blackjack may be unsuitable to the more squeemish viewers as there is plently of cracked skulls, brain surgery and blood but it is a very thought provoking and interesting anime which explores very modern questions of what is ethical. The animation is also stunning and the English dub is passable so it is well worth watching.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting thriller... 19 Jan 2007
Format:DVD
I bought this DVD on a whim with a load of other anime stuff and I was pleasantly surprised by it. The film is set up pretty well, culminating in a great final half hour. The mystery of the illness that inflicts the 'superhumans' is a good basis for the story and the animation is superb, well up to par with other Production I.G. anime, I thought. The English dub was bearable too, but for the best experience I recommend the original Japanese voice actors with subs.

The only real letdown is the ATROCIOUS DVD transfer. I cannot believe that this is remastered - perhaps if the master original was VHS. It is not true widescreen either - a hideous letterbox 4:3 ratio. Thankfully, most dvd players will stretch or zoom it appropriately, but I expect better, although it didn't detract too much from my enjoyment of the film as soon as I had adjusted. But I shouldn't have to adjust, and I couldn't help but feel that if the picture had been sharper the great animation would have stood out even more.

Despite that, this DVD is highly recommended and any fan of anime should enjoy this.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars This is more up to your own taste 1 Aug 2003
Format:DVD
Doctor Blackjack is a brilliant, but uncertified surgeon who, for an immense fee, performs impossible surgery unofficially.
Two years ago, at the atlanta olympics, a whole string of world records was broken, and not by a bit. Soon these superhumans appear all over the world, nobodies at first, then suddenly performing tasks far beyond any normal person's ability.
The problem is, these people seem to get extremely ill after a few years, or months even: they rot away on the inside.
This is where doctor blackjack comes in: he's hired by a pharmaceutical company to find a cure... but finds himself intwined in a horrible conspiracy!
I personally like this film a lot, it's calmer than the average anime, everything in it is very precise, very 'surgical'. There's no humour in it, no action, its pure psychological suspense.
That added with the fascintating medical procedures you're shown ( ER doesn't even come close ) and class A animation makes this a worthwile DVD.
There are no dvd extra's, and the film itself is a bit slow, but besides that there's nothing really negative to say about this DVD.
It's no 'ghost in the shell', but certainly belongs in any respectable anime collection.
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