After a daring escape, Shaw sets out to find the assassin who left him holding the bag. THE ART OF WAR provides genre fans with plenty of action, chases, gunfire, explosions and solid martial arts fighting. The cast of THE ART OF WAR also includes Maury Chaykin, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Hong and Liliana Komorowska. Warner Home Video has done another absolutely first rate job with the DVD presentation of THE ART OF WAR . Like the transfer of any big budget new movie, the DVD delivers an image that is super sharp and beautifully detailed.
Colors are rich and fully saturated, while the flesh tones maintain a completely natural balance.
Strongly rendered primary colors stand out, yet there are no signs of distortion or bleeding. Blacks are pure, plus the image boasts excellent contrast and shadow detail, which shows off the film's terrific nighttime cinematography. Digital compression artifacts are completely tamed by solid authoring. THE ART OF WAR features a rock 'em, sock 'em action mix that makes excellent use of the discrete abilities of the Dolby Digital 5.1 channel format. Sound effects are aggressively deployed in the forward soundstage, as well as in the split surround channels.