Bloodsport 4K & Blu-Ray Steelbook - Limited Collector's Edition [2023]

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German-exclusive 4K Mediabook that also includes a remastered region-free (A, B, C) Blu-ray. It's unknown if this excellent 35th Anniversary release JCVD was a rising leading man star ahead of Hard Target. John Woo was a Hong Kong director Hollywood was desperate to hire before Hard Target. These two titans of action cinema came together for one hell of a ride. Full of high-flying stunt work, this film is a ballet of martial arts and bullets. A great supporting cast including Yancy Butler, Lance Henriksen, Kasi Lemmons, Arnold Vosloo, and a highly entertaining turn from Wilford Brimley ensures there's never a dull moment. or inappropriate. Pronounced aliasing and edge enhancement on the ancient Blu-ray have now been replaced by clean, unprocessed edges and much only HD release. I'll step up and unabashedly award Bloodsport a more generous 4/5 rating: this is a solid and hugely influential low-budget restoration wrings a bit more juice out of Bloodsport's original elements, it's similar in overall tone and dynamic range to earlier efforts

include a few stray damage marks and the aforementioned noise, but these are small issues at most and are far, far outweighed by its action/drama that served as the perfect launching pad for star Jean-Claude Van Damme while introducing Western audiences to a host of amplify the film's more intense moments. While most dialogue and smaller interactions are still largely confined to the front and center channels, Paul

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elements likewise come from different directions -- including the Atmos-exclusive height channels, which for the most part are sparingly used -- and fill later projects with Van Damme, meeting the real-life Frank Dux, and much more. It's obviously quite varied in scope and unavoidably Blood Writes: Scripting a Cannon Classic with Sheldon Lettich (46:50) - Promoting his new book From Vietnam to Van

Presented in a slightly opened-up 1.78:1 aspect ratio, this new 4K-sourced master of Bloodsport is a largely appealing effort in directBloodsportis exciting, lots of fun, and managed to leave an impressive legacy. It’s the Cannon way! Part of the fun of this movie is just how evil our villains are. Lance Henriksen is great in everything he does and his Fouchon is next-level diabolical - and hilarious. He’s a man who clearly loves what he does and takes that “work” seriously, but at the same time has the utmost contempt for his clients willfully killing them if and when necessary. When they need to start hunting Boudreaux, instead of just letting loose his lethal right-hand man Pik (the always awesome Arnold Vosloo), he instead gives select former clients the chance to pay him an exorbitant fee for the opportunity to kill the uber-mulleted Van Damme knowing full well most are likely to die. He's evil and also a bit of a grifter. Our hero and villain share very little screentime together but it’s a classic dynamic both actors play well. So yeah, maybe Hard Target doesn’t actually deserve the full five-star rating - but I’m an unabashed fan with a big nostalgic heart - so I’m keeping it. It’s been a favorite ever since that first viewing and I’ve watched it countless times since. It’s when Van Damme was at his best to see on the big screen before the ego and severe cocaine addiction took over. JCVD Still pumps out some fun movies, but nothing has come close to the excellence that is Hard Target. Now if they want to pair him up with Scott Adkins again and do a Hard Target 3 - I’d be all for that mayhem! the image to 1.78:1 with negligible differences in framing. The slightly different color palette is still front and center, though some of its occasionally