For the record, there is no problematic PAL or 1080/50i content preceding the disc's main menu).
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Therefore, you will be able to play it on your PS3 or SA regardless of your geographical location.
( Note: This is a Region-Free Blu-ray disc. All in all, I like this Blu-ray release of Mulan slightly better than Panorama's. Finally, I did not detect any big marks, stains, dirt, or debris. There are no stability issues to report in this review either. Macrobloking, however, is not an issue of concern. The mild edge-enhancement and minor noise corrections I noticed on the HK high-definition transfer are present on the UK high-definition transfer. The color-schemes of the two high-definition transfers, however, look identical.
Interestingly enough, some of the mild background flicker that I noticed on the HK high-definition transfer is missing here. As far as I can tell, its basics are identical to those of the HK high-definition transfer Panorama used for their Blu-ray release of Mulan. This is a strong high-definition transfer.
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Presented in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Jingle Ma's Mulan arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Showbox Media. Though lasting only a couple of seconds, the giant sandstorm that hits Mulan's army also looks terrific.Įarlier this year, Mulan was nominated for Best Actress (Vicky Zhao) and Best Original Song (Song Li Si/Sun Yanzi) at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Many of the massive battle scenes look very strong some are as good as those seen in John Woo's Red Cliff.
The special effects, however, are top-notch. The pacing is very uneven, especially during the second half of the film. Kwon Chi-Leung's ( A Battle of Wits) editing, however, isn't. Tony Cheung's ( Eye in the Sky) lensing is convincing. As a result, Mulan mostly looks and feels like a respectable period film, not a big budget parody. On the other hand, I really liked the fact that the creators of Mulan did not infuse it with that tasteless humor other recent Asian period films have been plagued with (Teddy Chan's Bodyguards and Assassins quickly comes to mind). I don't know, I could immediately tell that they belonged to a sophisticated woman, not a soldier. Then there are all those close-ups of her beautiful hands. Just listen to her voice when she addresses her soldiers before the final battle with the Rouran tribes and tell me she does not sound like a woman. Her angry outbursts, passionate speeches and words of wisdom are terribly unconvincing. Some viewers may find Zhao's presence in Mulan unproblematic, but for me it was a major distraction. With other words, she simply looks like a woman. And they all involve Vicky Zhao, who simply does not look like someone you would mistake for a man. Then, there are parts of Mulan that are incredibly difficult to swallow. There are parts of it that work quite well the film never evolves into a soapy melodrama, and for the most part the large battle scenes are actually very well done. If all of the above creates the impressions that Ma's Mulan is something of a mixed bag…well, it is because it is something of a mixed bag. Another involves Modu (Hu Jun, Everlasting Regret), also a brave warrior, who discovers that Mulan is a girl, and after she nearly loses her mind when she is told that Wentai is killed, helps her get back on her feet and another that involves the aging leader of the Rouran tribes and his son, who decides to confront his father after he advises his men to give up on Mulan and go back to their homes. One is about a brave warrior, Wentai (Chen Kun, Painted Skin), who steals Mulan's heart and then fakes his death so that she could grow stronger and become the leader he senses she is destined to be. The rest of Ma's Mulan is made of protracted subplots that have been added mostly for flavor. That is how the legend of Mulan was born. When the Rouran tribes united and then attacked the Wei nation, she drew a plan that allowed her soldiers to defeat the enemy despite being outnumbered in weapons and men. Ma's film also insists that Mulan was an excellent tactician. Jingle Ma's Mulan rehashes most everything that we know about the legendary Chinese girl (Vicky Zhao, Red Cliff) who became a powerful general after she enlisted in the army in order to protect her sick father - she was brave, intelligent and incredibly loyal. In Mandarin, with optional English subtitles for the main feature. The supplemental features on the disc include making of cast and crew interviews behind the scenes featurette and the film's original theatrical trailer. Jingle Ma's "Hua Mulan" a.k.a "Mulan" (2009) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of British distributors Showbox Media.