Amazon.com Customer Reviews
 Rated 5 out of 5!
One of Chow’’s Best!
I’’ve had a quality bootleg VHS copy of this film for years, but picked up this DVD on the cheap to compare it to the original Golden Princess release. In some ways its better (more squibs, better subtitles, more dialogue and scenes) and in some ways it’’s worse (characters names have been changed, much of the rocking HK soundtrack missing). Inexplicably Jeff’’s name has been changed to Godfrey. Godfrey! What kind of name is that for a tough guy? Virgin’’s name has been changed to Yin and the big muscular villian is now Madman. I believe originally it was Deano or something like that but don’’t quote me on it as I haven’’t watched the original version in a while. The great guitar work is missing from both the Bangkok car chase and the final nightclub shootout, but most of the other music remains intact, notably as Chow recuperates and trains in Bangkok and when Mona is dancing at the nightclub. This DVD has english and chinese language dialog and widescreen and full screen picture. Buy it man, it kicks a$$! Rated 3 out of 5
Film Yes, DVD No
"Full Contact" ranks high on the list of classic Hong Kong "heroic bloodshed" action films. Grittier and more extreme than John Woo’’s films (more gore and maimings, and characters who are less noble), it’’s an entertaining ride, and a good showcase for the always-magnetic Chow Yun-Fat. Unfortunately, this DVD re-release has a serious problem -- the actual video print is a big improvement on the original Tai Seng release, but whole chunks of soundtrack seem to be missing from the Chinese audio track (strangely enough, they’’re present on the English audio track). If you don’’t mind watching your Hong Kong movies in English, this is a good buy, but if you’’re a purist, you’’re better off sticking with the original Tai Seng DVD for the complete Chinese audio track.
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