Michelle Yeoh stars as "The Stunt Woman", a part which she tackles with her usual trademark grit. It was not a role without serious consequences to her health either, as she reveals in an interview on the DVD.
You get a choice of watching the movie either in fullscreen English dub or in widescreen Cantonese with English subtitles. Aside from the fact that the dubbing destroys whatever moments of tension there are in the film, the image quality of the fullscreen version is markedly worse than the soft and occasionally bleary widescreen option.
The 2.0 sound mix sticks pretty much to the centre speaker, but it's clear enough and doesn't distort during the various moments of chaos that pepper the film.
As with the "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" DVD, Michelle Yeoh provides another informative interview for "The Stunt Woman" disc. Of prime interest are her comments on a stunt where she jumped off a bridge and landed on her face. Her injuries held up the movie for over a month. As with any seasoned film star in Hong Kong, Yeoh is more upset that the accident caused the movie to be delayed than any pain that she had to endure.
Along with trailers and production stills, this is a DVD well worth buying, especially for the insight into Hong Kong film-making, although don’t expect too much in terms of picture quality.
Chapters: 12
Region: 2
Ratio: 1.85:1 or 1.33:1 (fullscreen)
Sound: Dolby Digital 2.0
Extra Features: Scene selection, interview with Michelle Yeoh, production stills gallery, cast and crew biographies and filmographies, Hong Kong trailer, international trailer, choice of fullscreen dubbed version or Cantonese subtitled widescreen version, animated menus, multiple languages, subtitles.