I remember when I saw JVCD in cinemas back in June last year, the movie felt so real, it felt so true. I can honestly say it’s Jean-Claude Van Damme’s best work yet. The autocaricature along with that long monologue where he stares deep into your eyes and pours his heart out… just beautiful.
This French Blu-ray edition is the best available on the market. Boasting an intentional almost colourless MPEG-4 AVC video encode, along with a perfect DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 French track, it’s a must, technically.
Gaumont have released this movie in a good looking cardboard flip-page thingy. It looks nice, but I’m afraid of breaking it. Will put it in a bag to avoid any scuffs.
I’ve also ordered the German SteelBook of The Da Vinci Code from an Austrian website. Should be receiving it in a couple of days.
I was just about to get the French Digibook release, which you can see on the right, which looks really cool and is quite thick. The only downside is that the French audio is the only track that has a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 encode, whereas the German SteelBook has an English track with that audio, hence why I went for it. Might get the Digibook if it drops in price.