A triple set containing some of the best action adventure films available. Contains: CHARLIE'S ANGELS, VERTICAL LIMIT and Ang Lee's SPIDER-MAN (single disc version). See... more...individual titles for details, subtitles etc.
SPIDER-MANPeter Parker (Tobey Maguire) is an ordinary guy who lives with his beloved aunt ... more
and uncle and quietly pines for the girl next door, Mary Jane (Kirsten Dunst). But when a genetically-modified 'super-spider' bites him while on a school trip, Pe...
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
Action/Adventure - Director: Peter Jackson - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Liv Tyler, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Andy Serkis
Action/Adventure - Director: The Wachowski Brothers - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, Monica Bellucci, Jada Pinkett
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Advantages: Nice special effects! Disadvantages: Dull script - boring!
I saw VerticalLimit because of the trailers and adverts. It really did look like an excellent film, I went into my local Odeon (a few months ago) with high hopes and I left disappointed. Sure the fancy special effects dazzled me but the script didn’t. The first hour of the film are very impressive, however it goes down hill from there. The film begins in the same location that Mission Impossible 2 was shot.
For those that don’t know the film is about a group of climbers who daringly climb K2. A group leave to climb the mountain and as you will have guessed a storm occurs, the group of 3 are divided on whether to turn back or carry on. They decide to carry on. They fall under an ice sheet and the ending well I don’t want to give it away I’ll just say that the film ends in true American movie style ...
Advantages: Great start to the SpiderMan franchise Disadvantages: None
picks a fight with Peter. Peter dodges all of Flashes's punches and throws him across the floor.
Peter runs out into an alley, he knows that the spider has altered something in his body and starts to realise he can climb a wall and spin webs !!
That is just the beginning of the film and I won't spoil it by telling you anymore of the plotline.
The DVD I am reviewing is the region 1 two disk set which is basically the same as the region 2 version.
This 2 disk set has the following :
Disk 1
SpiderMan the film
English and French dolby digital 5.1
English, French, and Spanish subtitles.
This has commentaries by Sam Raimi the director, Kirsten Dunst, Laura Ziskin (producer), and Grant Curtis (co producer)
All of these give a wonderful job of telling you all of their experiences of the making of the film in good detailed depth ...
Advantages: Superb, brain-in-netral campy fun with non-stop flashy action sequences Disadvantages: Very 'music video' in style, Tom Green sucks, not for the curmudgeonly...and don't expect to expand your mind here!
of the elusive Charlie so there's at least one cameo appearance for the fans. Also along for the ride comes the superb Bill Murray and bad guys Tim Curry and his surprisingly sinister henchman Crispin Glover...I said it had a great cast! Anyhoo, the storyline follows the same format as one of the shows, blasting straight into the action and having Charlie introduce his sassy, butt-kicking angels in supremely camp 70s style as they pull off a ludicrous stunt with winning smiles and jiggly cleavage. The tone of the movie is set immediately, tongue-in-cheek, camp and rampantly unashamed of it! And impossible not to be carried along with the fun...
We are soon introduced to Bosley(Bill Murray), the owner of the detective agency through which Charlie speaks to his girls. They have a case, the owner of some kind of techie company has been kidnapped by ...
A box set featuring 'Spider-Man' High School student, Peter Parker, gets bitten by a genetically modified spider whilst on a school trip to a University laboratory. Overnight Peter develops supernatural powers and extreme strength... At first he uses his new talents for his own material gain but Peter eventually comes to the conclusion that he must use his new found abilities to fight evil as the super-hero... Spider-Man. 'Charlie's Angels' Charlie's Angels are a group of highly trained investigators skilled in martial arts. Their mission is to recover a billionaire who has been kidnapped and keep his voice identification software out of the wrong hands. 'Vertical Limit'
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT; CINRAM LOGISTICS
Release date
17/05/2004
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
CDRP 1458
Barcode
5035822145818
Languages
Main Language
English
Technical information
Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
Dubbing Sound
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround English Hungarian
DVD Description
A triple set containing some of the best action adventure films available. Contains: CHARLIE'S ANGELS, VERTICAL LIMIT and Ang Lee's SPIDER-MAN (single disc version). See individual titles for details, subtitles etc.
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