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DVD Review by Orlando Eastwood
Date Reviewed : 08/04/08
Site Where Published: Toho Gate

Forbidden Kingdom
Region 0

Studio: Lionsgate/TWC

Country: US

Format: NTSC

Year: 2008

Chapters: 13

Time: 101 minutes
Single Layer 4.35GB

Video: ***/*****

This video presentation is 16x9 anamorphic 1.78:1 widescreen. The film is cropped from its scope 2.35:1 image, which does not really cause any problems but it hurts the film since you are losing the sides, like a full frame movie. There are four removable subtitles on the disc; Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, and Japanese. Since I don’t know Chinese or Japanese I can probably assume like they are as the English subtitles, incomprehensible. I flipped the English subs on when Chinese was being spoken but it was just jumbled English.

 

Audio: ***/*****
There is two audio tracks present; English 5.1 and Cantonese 2-Ch. The English audio is very good quality. The Chinese audio is a different story. Since this is a Chinese bootleg that originated in China, the bootleggers synched a very horrible quality audio from a camcorder copy. And my guess is that some of the Boston scenes are edited because when you play the film the Chinese audio cuts back to English.

Special Features: */*****

There is only the US Theatrical Trailer on the disc. The trailer is 16x9 and is in scope which goes against the aspect ratio of the movie itself.

Overall: **½/*****

This bootleg is decent quality considering it came out almost a month after its theatrical release here in the US. The fact that it is missing a good 10 minutes of footage is kind of a let down. The packaging is for this is a paper slip out which has Blu-Ray logos, when it is clearly a DVD, all over the cover. The wrong audio, Thai, listed on the back and a crazy variety of subtitles listed.


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