Split Second (Limited Edition) [Blu-ray]

Unofficial funny horror. I smiled all the way through. Love it

Five star rating is because I love the movie....the blu ray could be better with a bit more money spent on restoration, but realistically, that's not going to happen.As it stands, it's the best this movie has ever looked on home video, and I think that that will be enough for most fans.It is grainy, but not ruinously so, the grain is naturally part of the film stock. The image does have a tendency of going a little soft at times, and that is noticeable, but these scenes don't last long, and the majority of the time it looks absolutely fine. It's not like the recent re-release of Dog Soldiers, where the movie is heavily over-contrasted and doesn't look great, this release does look good, and you can see plenty of details you won't have seen before.The Japanese extra scenes are a nice extra, but they look terrible and the acting from Derkin's girlfriend is awful. Would've liked a new interview or something with the stars or director...but I'm happy to just get a good disc of this classic film.

The premise of this film is intriguing. Although the beginning feels somewhat stilted, by the end, you are thoroughly captivated by its spell.

PLOT...In a futuristic London 2008, the rising sea levels mean that large areas are under water. Rutger Hauer plays a cop who previously lost his partner to some strange creature. Now the creature is back and its after him.This is a great sci-fi classic with plenty of great looking scenery and sets, cool action mainly in the form of bloody shoot-outs, cool cast, Rutger Hauer was a great actor back in the 90's, also stars Kim Cattrall and the great Pete Postlethwaite in a small role, good soundtrack too, the movie has a hint of blade runner and alien and predator 2 all in one, great effects too, cool looking alien, certainly one to pick up, great to see these little gems getting new releases.Blu-ray picture is 1080p HD looks good, a slight step up from previous releases.Features include a short 4-min reel of deleted Japanese scenes.Region B only, 91-mins, 1991.Filmed entirely on location in London England.

I had forgotten how much fun this movie is - I got into Rutger Hauer's movies after Bladerunner and was rarely disappointed. This one has elements of mad Max (my all time favorite movie), Alien, Lethal Weapon and a hint of Bladerunner but also has its tongue firmly in its cheek. Set in London of 2014(!), global warming, flooding, pollution - a dystopian nightmare with a genetic mutation eating bits of peoples' hearts. Good to see Ian Dury in a rare cameo. I like the way his ultra straight partner (Dick Durkin) becomes corrupted over teh course of the movie, ending up worse than the lead character.

As a Fan of Split Second I would probably give the movie itself 4 out of 5 but this review is for the Blu-ray so I have dropped it a star. This is a pretty basic disc really, picture quality is pretty poor in my opinion, very grainy and no better than the American dvd that I had before it although you do get a widescreen 1.78:1 transfer as apposed to a 4:3 pan and scan that I had on the dvd. Audio is LCPM Stereo (Linear Pulse Code Modulated, (not that I really had much idea about it, I had to look it up) not DD 5.1 although sound through my 5.1 system sounded crisp and clear. My US dvd had Dolby Digital AC3 Sound, was closed captioned, had Subtitles in English, Spanish and French where this New Blu-ray has no Subtitles that I could find at all. The only extra on the Blu-ray was a deleted scene from the Japanese release which only covered a visit to Dick Durkin's Girlfriend, the picture quality was dreadful and her acting was shocking, it didn't add anything to the story and cutting it left Dicks Girlfriend to your imagination which in my opinion was far better than the real thing. Ultimately this is only for big fans of the movie who want a 1080p, Widescreen version but who may still be disappointed. I quite liked the box cover though, maybe less effort on this and more on the picture quality would have helped.

Love this film

One of my all time favourite films. I was put off at first by some of the reviews about the country of origin, but as I know this film very well from video days I bought it because I just had to see it again. Don't be put off by negative reviews, there is nothing wrong with the quality or sound and it certainly is not 'dubbed'. I call this film 'Bigger Guns' which I think is a better name/description for this film.