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Celebrate some of the greatest action-sequences ever filmed with the star of Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon and The Tuxedo.
Join the greatest team in the history of action cinema (Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao) for an incredible, thrill-a-minute adventure where three madcap friends go head-to-head with Hong Kong s toughest crime syndicate.
Jam-packed with full-contact fight action, bone-crunching high-falls and acrobatic genius, Dragons Forever is a hi-octane treat that will thrill you to the bone! Jackie Chan s one-on-one climactic fight sequence with legendary undefeated kick-boxing champion, Benny The Jet Urquidez, will literally leave you breathless!
Special Features:
- Digitally re-mastered and restored 16:9 Anamorphic version enhanced for widescreen TVs
- DVD Transfer created from High Definition master
- Dual Language Format (English Dubbed and Cantonese with re-mastered English subtitles)
- Dolby Digital 5.1 audio tracks
- Fully animated Menus
- Dragons Remembered: The Making of Dragons Forever with host Bey Logan and stars Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Benny The Jet Urquidez, Crystal Kwok, Brett Ratner and Yuen Wah
- Thai Breaker featurette: Hong Kong celebrities join co-star and Thai boxing champion, Billy Chow, ringside for his latest exhibition bout in Hong Kong
- Stunts Unlimited: 3 exclusive action-packed featurettes showcasing the remarkable skills of three of the brightest talents (past and present) from Jackie Chan s world-famous stunt-team: Double Jeopardy with Brad Allen, Beyond Gravity with Joe Eigo, Kick-fighter with Andy Cheng
- 2 Deleted Scenes (Couch Potato and Mr Kinetic)
- Dragons Uncovered (A 12-minute music montage of never-before-seen out-takes)
- Trailer Gallery
- Original Cantonese mono audio track
- Exclusive feature-length audio-commentary with Hong Kong film expert, Bey Logan"
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The problem with the film comes in the form of logical story telling and any real emotions. Also the comedy is a bit hit and miss. During the slower periods of the film such as the romantic sequences or any real attempt at telling the story things become a bit of a bore. Unlike "Wheels on Meals" or Project A" where there was a perfect balance of successful comedy and action with good pacing, "Dragons forever" is more sparondic in terms of balance of action, comedy and romance.
HK action cinema fans will have a joy spotting the likes of Yuen Wah, Dick Wei, Yuen Cheung Yan, James Tien, Lau kar Wing and many regular faces of HK fight films. Though some appear to get punished by the likes of Chan and co. it is still a fun little distraction.
The picture quality is great and the wealth of extras on offer is a fantastic supplementary to the film. With interviews with Brad Allen, Andy Cheng and Joe Eigo. Each gives fascinating insight in there careers as stunt men. A Making of featurette with interviews with Benny "the Jet", Sammo Hung, Yuen Wah and for some reason Brett Ratner(WTF). with a few other extras that round of the package making it the definitive version to view.
Recommended for fight fans.
BUT...
This so called '2 disk special edition' is a BIG LETDOWN.
The main feature itself is a seriously cut version of the film. Having previously owned the VHS version i was surprised to see this dvd version has even more cuts than the old VHS with numerous scenes cut including most of yuen biao's comedy scenes and also at least 2 fight scenes of Jackie Chans.
The Special features disk does have a nice interview with jackie,samo & yuen (all filmed seperately) but the remaining special features are quite strange to say the least.. one with Bey Logan showing us around certain places in Hong Kong that were (get this) 'much like' the filming location of certain scenes in the movie but unfortunately they were not the locations at all(apart from 1 location in a car park..although the fight scene in this release was some 3 mins shorter than the original).
All in all, don't bother with this release as you may be able to find an import version which has not been shredded by Bey Logan/Hong Kong Legends.
I'm thankful to have picked up the original release in Hong Kong recently with no cuts and also featuring the original soundtrack with english subs and deleted scenes.
Avoid this release unless you have no other choice.
with regards to the film, i enjoyed it very much. as always, we get to see jackie put his life on the line as he almost effortlessly performs those daring stunts that he's known for.
hung and biao provide brilliant support, especially sammo hung who has a natural gift for comedy and slapstick.
the climax is a great one in the drugs factory, although it got a bit too nasty at times, in comparison with other chan pictures.
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