Product: Mean Guns [VHS] (1997)
Rating: 4.0
Prozac, Valium & Ritalin...breakfast of champions.
With dialogue like that, how can you NOT take to this movie. Crisp, cool dialogue, a minimal plot, 100% action and performances from Halsey and Lambert taking the honours. The violence is bloodless, though brutal (perhaps budgetary restraints prevented Mr Pyun from spending on blood squibs...reminded me of Miami Vice...gunplay, but no blood). I'd love to see this one re-made with John woo directing. Bloodless violence aside (which takes the edge off the movie) the only thing that lets the DVD down is that the congenital cretins at Tri-Mark have seen fit in their infinite wisdom to present it as a Full Frame picture rather than the 2.35:1 aspect ratio it should have been. The picture quality of the disc suffers abominably when zoomed to full frame, and the action becomes confusing, the cropping at the sides being blatantly obvuious. Come on TriMark, let's have a Widescreen re-release of this one. One of Pyun's better efforts, on a par with Nemesis.