Product Description

While in Malaysia, Sunny and a few of his circus performer friends go for a treasure hunt, stumbling upon barrels of bio-chemicals left from the war. Upon returning, some of the members are mutating due to inhaling the bio-chemicals but Sunny seems fine from the exposure. They gain extraordinary superhuman powers. The leader of the entertainment outfit Chang Tai Chu decides to use this newfound strength to do evil. As there is an increase of crime in the city, the media and the police get involved.

City Under Siege is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of FUNimation Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.34:1. Though the film was evidently shot in Super 35, what appears to be fairly extensive tweaking at the DI stage gives this film the flat, shiny look of high definition video a lot of the time. Many scenes have been artificially filtered, and in a couple of cases blacks are pushed to levels where they become posterized and purplish (look for this tendency in the big "three ring circus" showdown between Sunny and Brother Cho). Otherwise, though, this presentation offers excellent sharpness and clarity, with very good fine detail and solid and consistent black levels. Contrast has been intentionally played with and so may or may not be everyone's cup of tea depending on their personal tastes. While a lot of the CGI elements look quite good, some (especially an explosion and some escaping gas early in the film) look fairly cut rate.

From virtually the first moment of the film, City Under Siege's boisterous lossless Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mixes (in the original Cantonese and an English dub) get off to blistering starts, with some awesome LFE, extremely well placed discrete channel effects and an involving sense of immersion. Though I sampled it, I personally couldn't stomach the English dub for very long and stuck with the original Cantonese track for the bulk of the film, and it offers a precise and clear reproduction of the soundtrack, with very well prioritized dialogue and effects. The film's major action set pieces really kick this mix into high gear, with some really fantastic panning effects, especially since Chan repeatedly uses the trope of various weapons being flung at the screen (evidently a 3D version of the film was released overseas), with attendant effects clearly panning from front to rear. A number of inventive crashes, thwacks and blade sounds also populate the surrounds, and the sonic experience here is fairly over the top virtually all of the way through the film. To the film's credit, when it does briefly slow down for quieter dialogue scenes, dynamic range is quite expressive in these more laid back elements as well.

3D Blu-ray DVD Movies Disc - City Under Siege Features

Video
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.34:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

Audio

Cantonese: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1

Cantonese: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (less)

Subtitles

English, Chinese

Discs
50GB Blu-ray Disc
 

Package Content

3D Blu-ray DVD Movies Disc(50GB) - 3D Blu-ray DVD Movies Disc - City Under Siege  x 1