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Rating: 4/5
Review: "Sherlock Holmes DVD review"
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It is quite good with the blend of action, suspense, thriller with the touch of humor.
DVD special features-3.5/5
In USA, it only gets the one disc edition which means there is only a featurette as special features. In Singapore, we get lucky. There is the 2-disc edition available. It features a long featurette about creating the new Sherlock Holmes (14 minutes). The rest are small featurettes (29 minutes) which touch on some areas of the movie. They are pretty informative. Though they are not as detailed as they should be, it is fine. At least better than the USA edition.

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Rating: 4/5
Review: "Phobia 2 DVD review"
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The five stories are quite entertaining. They cut short to the suspense and leave out characters' development which means that this movie is at a fast pace.
DVD special features-3.2/5
At least, some behind the scenes (13 minutes) are added into this DVD. It is made up of short behind the scenes. Around two-three short behind the scenes focus on the making of one stories. There are 15 short behind the scenes. They are quite good, there is even english subtitles. The behind the scenes may be a little short but at least it is something.

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Rating: 3.5/5
Review: "The International DVD review"
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Well, the best part of this is the only and one shoot-out where the main characters run round shooting the bad guys. Actually, the plot isn't that bad. But it is not as intense or thrilling as I thought it would be. Some parts are slow. Fortunately, the plot still has enough thrills and suspense to hold it from falling. Though it runs under less than 2 hours, i felt that it is more than 2 hours. In the end, it is still entertaining but the worst part is that there is no climax. It just ends without anything big.
DVD special features-3.6/5
There is a long making of (30 minutes) which cover on the finding and filming of places. The interesting featurette is the one on the building the museum for the shoot-out (6 minutes). I was surprised that they entirely built the whole place. Another featurette is about the finding of the places (6 minutes), it is just a brief featurette. The last one is also about the filming of a location (5 minutes). Is that all they can cover on? There is also a long boring but slightly informative extended scene (11 minutes). Yawn. Overall, the DVD has some good special features.

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Rating: 3.4/5
Review: "Surrogates DVD review"
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When I first watched it, i am disappointed in the lack of action. I thought it would at least have some cool action scenes instead the two action scenes are brief and not impressive. I guess that is because of the runtime of 1 hour and 28 minutes, the director wanted to focus on the story more. The story is also not that impressive. Though with the short runtime, it is still packed with emotional and dramatic scenes. The story without them can be actually engaging. The pace still moves reasonably and soon it reveal the mystery.
DVD special features-1/5
Basically, it has nothing except a commentary which i don't bother to listen to it and a rocking music video. The rocking song (4 minutes) is kinda cool. That is the one star. In addition, there is preview (2 minutes) on When In Rome. The featurettes are on Blu-Ray. Damn...

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