Finally, I just received one of my orders from Amazon US (Good Luck Chunk & Forgetting Sarah Marshall).    Shipped from US on 13 September 2009, arrived Customs Department, Sepang on 23 September 2009 and reached Customs Department, Kuching on 30 September 2009.

But, where is my Gladiator and Braveheart shipped on 31/08/2009 and another two orders shipped on 11/09/2009 and 13/09/2009 respectively from US?   

Movie:4.5/5
The storyline is the best among the OUATIC series. The fighting scenes are awesome and enjoying, eventhough not as good as OUATIC 2 (where the fighting scenes are designed and choreographed by Yuen Wo Ping, who choreographed the action scenes in Matrix). This in fact is one of the best movies directed by Tsui Hark which won him numerous awards including Best Director. Because of this movie, Hong Kong movie industry revived the martial art craze and started to produce tons of martial art movies. It's also the turning point for Jet Lee to become a renown international action superstar.

PQ: 2/5
This is the most disappointing part. Like I said, this is definitely not a DVD upscaled version. Fortune Star had done their part to make it a HD version. But the fact is it is a bad transfer, though not as bad as Tomb Raider. I don't know whether they do not have the technology or just being lazy to do a proper transfer, or the film stock itself is too bad in condition for restoration. It's very obvious DNR is heavily applied throughout the film, too heavy till you can see the colors and the shape of objects are distorted. For grain hater, you can hardly see any grain in the film, though you might still get to see some grainy effect in fast action scenes. The people face is waxed, but the effect is not natural. It looks like all those people are putting up a heavy make up.

AQ: 3.5/5
The Cantonese Track is in Dolby TrueHD 7.1. I don't have a 7.1 set-up, but even running at 5.1 the effect of the movie is considered good. The bass is not the biling balang type, but you still can feel the LFE on the punching scenes. The surround effect is also good, as you can hear the whistling sound of the ships coming from surround speakers.

I don't have the Remastered DVD version to do the comparison, but only the cheap speedo ayam version which is far worse. Overall it is still a good movie with a great in-depth storyline. The weakest link still lies on the PQ. If you don't mind the PQ, it's still worth for collection. Now I will wait for the release of 'Once Upon A Time In China 2' to see whether Fortune Star will make any improvement on PQ.

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Is Speedy selling this at their special price as well?

BTW, this is also interesting:


Maybe by the time it is released, it could be selling for less than US$20?   

But, this has already reached a very nice price!



Buy! Buy! Buy!