Hard Target [4K Ultra HD] [1993] [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

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Whether that’s enough to liven up an otherwise routine JCVD action flick may depend on whether you come at the film from the perspective of a Van Damme fan excited to get a more competent than usual outing from the star, or a John Woo fan expecting more from the man who made The Killer and Hard-Boiled. The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.

John Woo’s first Hollywood film, being supervised by the awesome Sam ‘evil dead’ Raimi(as it was a secret that Raimi was helping overlook the movie’s production due to Universal being nervous as Woo didn’t speak much English and a Hollywood first timer. Now, John Woo had made numerous better movies in Hong Kong before Hard Target - but this is the movie that made him a household name in the US. Several cuts later and we had a film with considerably less violence and also more of a focus on Van Damme, at the expense of the other actors: reportedly even Van Damme himself sat down with the editors to deliver an alternative cut, which trimmed away the development of the antagonists in the film in favour of more of himself, allegedly because "audiences were paying to see Van Damme, not Lance Henriksen".

However, Hard Target has so many over-the-top action sequences that at times it feels like surround movement and oomph should be better. Black levels are much better resolved this time out - in this 4K disc and the remastered 1080p Blu-ray - giving the image a better feeling of three-dimensional depth. Consumer Products by Snow Commerce, which is soley responsible for the site's content and all aspects of your purchase.

com is an Introducer Appointed Representative of Pay4Later Limited, trading as Deko, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 728646). As it turns out, however, their last victim had a daughter named Nat (Yancy Butler) who arrives from out of town looking for her dad.To this day fans still yearn for a proper release of a bootleg workprint of one of Woo's earlier, longer cuts in favour of the least cut official version that is currently available (Kino themselves tried and failed to get it). and uses 10-bit video depth, High Dynamic Range in both HDR10 and Dolby Vision flavours and is encoded using the HEVC (H. As far as the bad guys go, Lance Henriksen is perfect here as the man in charge, chewing just enough scenery to create a memorable character while Arnold Vosloo is equally good and surprisingly intense as the strong, silent type. After a string of back-to-back-to-back successes earning higher and higher box office revenue and more favorable critical responses, he was in his element (hair notwithstanding).

Both copies were promoted at that time as being sourced from a “New 4K restoration of the unrated international cut of the film from the original camera negative. Almost thirty years on, and Hard Target remains a veritable action classic and one of the best movies of Jean-Claude Van Damme's career. Andrew Hernandez on Jake Gyllenhaal goes full on Jackie Chan in the Trailer for Doug Liman’s ‘Road House’ also starring Conor McGregor After climbing to the top of the Hong Kong film industry and earning international acclaim as one of the greatest action directors in the world, director John Woo made his Hollywood debut with 1993's Hard Target.It might be worth waiting until that's sorted out before purchasing, but once it is, you're left with a disc that gives the movie a really nice 4k presentation and extra features that are interesting and plentiful and which do a really nice job of covering the film's complicated history. Since 2001, we've brought you uncompromising, candid takes on the world of film, music, television, video games, theater, and more. In fact, barring the further audio issues, those without DV would have likely absolutely loved revisiting this action classic in 4K. Hard Target 2 Blu-Ray Bonus Disc - Gloss and Embossed Steelbook - Rigid slipcase with spot gloss detail - 40pp Production Notes book - 8x Lobby Cards - Double Sided Poster.

While it could be argued that 1994’s Time Cop was his last great movie, his pinnacle action star best is 1993’s Hard Target. Watch the Trailer for the Jordan Peele-produced ‘Monkey Man’ directed by and starring Dev Patel he dresses like Wick but this has a Tony jaa loves elephants vibe as well. Liv Tyler is set to reprise her role as Betty Ross in the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time in 15 years, in the next Captain America film.

Chance Boudreaux (Van Damme) is the target of an evil mercenary (Lance Henriksen, Aliens) who recruits combat veterans for the “amusement” of his clients—bored tycoons who will pay a half a million dollars to stalk and kill the most challenging prey of them all: Man.