Starring:	Tommy Lee Jones	126min
	Wesley Snipes
	Robert Downey Jr	1998
Screenplay:	John Pogue	Action
Director:	Stuart Baird	Colour

Region	2	Studio:	Warner Brothers
Format	Double Sided, Single Layer	Subtitles	English
	(movie on ONE side)		English Closed Captions
			Italian Closed Captions
Aspect ratio	16:9		French / Dutch / Italian
			Spanish / Portugese
Anamorphic	Yes		Arabic
Soundtracks	Dolby Digital 2.0	Extra Features	Documenataries:
	French Dolby Digital 5.1		"Anatomy of the Plane Crash"
	Italian Dolby Digital 5.1		Production Notes
			Biographies
Case type	Cardboard

The DVD * * *		The Movie * *
This disc will forever be known as Warner's great screw-up. No, the specs above are not a typo - there is no English 5.1 Dolby Digital mix here, whereas there is French and Italian. And we're stuck with it - Warner will not repress. Despite the Special Edition status bestowed on this, there is very little that is special at all. Picture quality is good if unexceptional, with plenty of close-up artifacts for anyone sitting far too close to the screen. The Dolby Surround mix is clean but likewise uninspired - there are better action showcases than this. Absurdly, the extras - such as they are - are on side 2. In total there is around 12 minutes of stuff here, split into around 8 different menu-driven clips, going through different aspects of the plane crash. Although welcome, there is a fair amount of padding even here, and why they didn't let us view them all sequentially is anyone's guess. The quality too is poor, with some of the sound out of phase and pictures (though 16:9 anamorphic) blurry and indistinct. Also missing from the region 1 version is a documentary on the lives of real-life US Marshals. This seems a rush job all round, with none of the quality and finesse that graces Contact or LA Confidential. All that said, there are extras here and the movie looks and sounds respectable enough. Just could have been so much better.		The Illinois prison service has severe problems in the transportation department. They can't seem to move prisoners five miles down the round without inflicting carnage and mayhem on the whole area - with the Fugitive, there was a coach and train wreck - here it's the untimely demise of a jet plane. On board is everybody's favourite, Marshal Gerard (Jones), along with a prisoner wanted for the murder of 2 other Marshals (Snipes). Freed from the wreckage, Snipes trots off to play mouse while the ol' boys get back together to don an enormous cat costume. Deja vu anyone? It gets worse - although no further plot revelations will be made, anyone who has seen the Fugitive will find things strangely familiar from beginning to end. Jones is very good as ever, and has a few choice moments which almost make the film worth seeing, while his henchmen are likewise engaging. But Snipes is laughable (one clunky seen of exposition in New York mid way through really is a hoot), as is his girlfriend, the respected French actress Irene Jacob. No-one is really trying too hard here, unsurprising given the shockingly unimaginative plot. Baird's direction is efficient, if lacklustre. All that said, it is watchable throughout. But after The Fugitive, one of the nineties very best action movies, that really ain't enough. Someone should apprehend this series before they try to make any more.