Mel (Mark Wahlberg) is a neurotic, overworked hit man working for two crime bosses--Cisco (Lou Diamond Phillips) and Paris (Avery Brooks). He has a demanding fiance (Christina Applegate) with parents he's trying to impress and a gold-digging mistress (Lela Rochon) to occupy his scarce free time. Cisco proposes that stressed-out Mel kidnap Keiko (China Chow), the young daughter of Jiro Nishi, a wealthy Japanese industrialist. Mel captures her, but unfortunately Cisco is unaware that she is the goddaughter of Paris, who promptly puts a separate crew out to find and destroy Keiko's captors---and Paris is unaware that Mel is the man they are looking for. This unique and violent blend of action and comedy was executive produced by John Woo
Blu-ray Disc Features:
Blue BD Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
PCM 5.1 - English, French
Subtitles - English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, Thai - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Commentaries - 1. Che-Kirk Wong - Director, Terence Chang - Executive Producer
2. Ben Ramsey - Screenwriter
Interactive Features:
"Seamless Menus"
Director of Photography
Dan Nowak: Diretor of Photography
Production Designer
Taavo Soodor: Production Designer, SAVE THE LAST DANCE 2 (2006)
Costume Designer
Margaret M. Mohr: Costume Designer
Review 1:
"...Stylishly efficient....The stunts whoosh by like a Roadrunner cartoon..." -- 3 out of 4 stars
Source: USA Today
p.4E 05/29/1998
Review 2:
"...It's like a hyped-up Bruce or Arnold thriller directed by the Coen brothers for Troma Films....It may be some sort of junk landmark: the first studio thriller that's all guilty pleasure."
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.51 05/08/1998