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Fearless
Video: 9/10
Audio(Mandarin): 9/10
Coming from a bootleg DVD off Ebay riddled with heavy compression artifacts, this is one hell of a step up. There is a slight softness in some scenes common of Chinese films, but for the most part the image is incredibly sharp and detailed. Sound is dead on as well.
The subtitles are a bit annoying, but thats expected. With Asian movies, there are two options, a literal translation, which while correct reads like badly formed sentences and dumb remarks, thats what we have here. The other is taking the meaning of what their saying and making it smoother and natural sounding, while loosing some of the literal meaning. I much prefer that, but even when they attempt to do that much of the original narrative is lost, unless done right, which is very rare.
Haven't watched the featurette yet, but I'm glad the deleted scene was cut.
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