While Bruce Lee has passed on, Jackie Chan has now made a name for himself in Hollywood with recent films such as Rumble in the Bronx and Rush Hour, gracing the silver screen instead of going straight to video. Gary Daniels is still to make his name in this country, but Sammo Hung's Martial Law often gets an airing on Channel 5. Cynthia Rothrock also features as the first female Westerner to break into the box-office world of martial arts films.

There's a great number of film clips to illustrate the point whenever discussing a particular actor, but most of these are in a 4:3 pan-and-scan ratio.

The picture quality fares a bit better than Death By Misadventure. The interview clips are still blurry but at least not all of the film clips fall in the same boat and there's some nice carnage-creation as two-handed gun-toting madness takes precedence in some scenes.

Presented in a mostly fullscreen 4:3 ratio, the average bitrate is a respectable 8.5Mb/s.

The sound is Dolby Digital 2.0 which normally translates to Dolby Surround, but you'd be hard pushed to find much to excite your speakers here as it's all interviews and muffled clips from films so may as well be mono.

Extras :

Chapters :

16 chapters during the 89-minute feature, with one chapter per topic. Note that there's 17 chapters on the disc and those marked 1-16 on the card inside actually related to chapters 2-17, the first used for a logo.

Languages & Subtitles :

And there's more... :

Menu :

Overall :

FILM	 		: ***
PICTURE QUALITY 	: **
SOUND QUALITY		: *
EXTRAS			: ½
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OVERALL			: *½

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2000.

As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B 37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.

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