Release: Sep 24, 2009 - Author: Eiskaltes Grab - Translator: DaxRider123
- external link: IMDB
For this report, the US-DVD from Warner Home Video / Cannon Video (R-Rated) was compared to the uncut German Bootleg-DVD from Cannon (Unrated)
There are 31 differences resulting in 12,4 Seconds: 14 cut scenes = 53,08 Seconds 5 alternative cuts = 2,81 seconds 7 zoomed takes = No time difference 3 longer scenes in the R-Rated version = +43,49 seconds 1 Scene from a different perspective = No time difference 1 color difference = No time difference This pretty good Fighting-movie with David Bradley and Mark Dacascos as main actors has only been released as a cut R-Rated Version in the USA to this day. In Germany the movie was released as a strongly cut version on VHS, the Unrated Version only exists as a bootleg. 10 Min
Andrew breaks the bad guy's arm. 0,64 Sek
11 Min He hits another bad guy's crotch with his hand. 0,88 Sek
11 Min R-Rated: We see an injured bad guy crawling on the floor. +0,96 Sek Unrated: Andrew rams his knife in the third bad guy's leg. 1,04 Sek
Almost the complete dream sequence of Andrew was (in the R-Rated version) shown as negative image and will therefore not be mentioned any further in this report. 12 Min There are 2 takes of the Samurai (Kenjiro) and Andrew which are shown again in the R-Rated version. +12,23 Sek
12 Min Another take of Andrew in the R-Rated version. +1,4 Sek
12 Min The R-Rated version again shows many takes of Andrew and Kenjiro during their sword combat which are mostly repeated again. +29,86 Sek
13 Min 3 mirror-inverted takes in the R-Rated version. No time difference
15 Min Andrew presses his fingers into his wound. 2,92 Sek
15 Min Now he pulls a bullet out of the wound. 12,04 Sek
30 Min The fighter's hand is shown in close-up. 0,12 Sek
30 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
30 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
30 Min We see a longer take of the fighter's throat being cut, blood floats out of the wound. 3,88 Sek
30 Min R-Rated: Here, a take of the audience applauding was inserted. +1,1 Sek Unrated: We see the fighter again whose throat was cut. 2,24 Sek
42 Min We see a shot of the fighter's sliced arm. 2 Sek
42 Min R-Rated: We see the audience again. +0,63 Sek Unrated: The sword sticks in the second fighter's leg. 1,8 Sek
43 Min The fighter spits out a piece of his opponent's cheek. 2,56 Sek
43 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
43 Min R-Rated: Again, we see the audience applauding. +0,7 Sek Unrated: We see the fighter's arm which was cut off lying on the floor. 0,76 Sek
43 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
53 Min We see a longer take of the knife sticking in the fighter's throat. 4,88 Sek
53 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
53 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
53 Min We see a shot of the blood-smeared knife in the foreground as well as the corpse of the previously killed fighter in the background. 2 Sek
66 Min Blood is running down Harrison's neck. 3,84 Sek
76 Min We see Phan-Xu's disembodied head. The camera zooms out and we get to see his headless torso. 3,24 Sek
89 Min We see a longer take of Kenjiro holding the sword in his blood-dripping hand. 2,4 Sek
89 Min Zoomed take in the R-Rated version. No time difference
89 Min Blood comes out of Kenjiro's mouth. 11,68 Sek
89 Min R-Rated: We see a side view of the dead Kenjiro (actually, the previously cutted scene was re-inserted here!). +2,8 Sek Unrated: Here, we see a front view of the dead Kenjiro. 3,16 Sek
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