On the other hand, Richard Gere piles on the Oirish accent way too thick to the point where it sounds incomprehensible and makes him sound ridiculous and Sidney Poitier is the FBI man who stumbles from scene to scene reciting lines from the script as if he doesn't particularly care, but rolls his eyes around just enough to throw viewers off the scent. Diane Venora , as Major Valentina Koslova is worth a watch as the feisty Russian agent playing second-fiddle to Poitier. At least this does have an anamorphic transfer. The Dolby Digital 5.1 sound mix is nothing short of excellent. Of course, if we had been treated to the DTS 5.1 sound mix which comes on a separate Region 1 DVD then that would be all the better.
Dialogue is also available in Italian and Spanish, but both are surround sound-only.
The extras consist of several pages of Production Notes that you'll read once only and a Cast and Filmmakers section for the major actors and director, listing the films in which they've been involved, but only up to 1997 when this film came out. You can tell all of these extras from the second paragraph were taken directly from the NTSC laserdisc because of the headings between each section. The film is copiously chaptered with 31 spread throughout the two hours and the menus are static, but the main one contains music from the score. The subtitles come in 13 languages - English, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Portuguese, Greek, Turkish and Hungarian.