| Audio | DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 |
| Languages | English, Italian |
| Aspect Ratio | 2.39:1 |
| Packaging | Box Set |
| Company | Grindhouse Releasing |
| Notes | Edition Details: DISC ONE • Audio commentary by Mike Malloy, director of EUROCRIME! Brand new, in-depth interviews with director Umberto Lenzi, actors Tomas Milian, Maria Rosaria Omaggio, Sandra Cardini, Maria Rosaria Riuzzi and Corrado Solari, screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti, and composer Franco Micalizzi. • Special tribute to Marizo Merli with appearances by Enzo Castellari and Ruggero Deodato. • Vintage VHS intro by cult movie superstar Sybil Danning! • Original international theatrical trailer. "All Eyes on Lenzi" (1:24:04) • "Music for Mayhem" - Umberto Lenzi and Franco Micalizzi, July 26, 2010 ROME (33:12) • "Citta' Frontale" - Roma on location (22:01) • Sybil Danning's Action Videos Intro (01:32) • International Trailer (03:29) • Home Video Trailer (0:33) • Grindhouse Releasing Prevues DISC TWO • "Umberto" - director Umberto Lenzi (55:31) • "The Rebel Within" documentary on actor Tomas Milian (1:28:50) • "The Merli Connection" - a tribute to actor Maurizio Merli (44:39) • "Back Story" - actor Tomas Milian (05:54) • "Beauty and the Beasts" - actor Maria Rosaria Omaggio (29:31) • "Corrado Armer to the Teeth" - actor Corrado Solari (45:17) • "Brutal City" - actor Maria Rosaria Riuzzi (14:12) • "The Rebel and the Burgeois" - acotr and costume designer Sandra Cardini (19:05) • "Vodka, Cigarettes and Burroughs" - screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti (39:31) • "The Godfather of Rhythm" - composer Franco Micalizzi (36:14) • "Still Gallery" DISC THREE • BONUS CD - original soundtrack album by Franco Micalizzi - newly remastered in stunning 24 bit/192khz sound from the original master tapes. Liner notes by Italian crime film expert Roberto Curti. 4K scans are becoming more and more common, but the majority of cult titles wind up having their remastering work finished at a lower resolution. The Tough Ones, meanwhile, looks to be a true end-to-end 4K remaster. That additional investment in time, effort, and cost are rare, and the end result is astonishing: in the running as the most impressive Techniscope film on Blu-ray. Speckling is kept to a bare minimum, and there's no perceptible wear or damage to speak of whatsoever. This is as filmic a remaster as I could hope to see, with a fine sheen of grain that hasn't been filtered away, benefiting further from an exceptional encode free of any distracting artifacts. Definition and detail are outstanding. Even with as inky as The Tough Ones' blacks are, fine detail is never devoured by shadows or the frequently dark wardrobe. Its colors are as robust as could be hoped for – striking, yet still very much in-step with a gritty, urban action flick of this era. As high as my expectations were going in, Grindhouse readily eclipsed them. Simply extraordinary. Since we're talking about a special edition that'll take you from sunrise to sundown to explore in its entirety, it probably goes without saying that both of the Blu-ray discs in this set are BD-50s. As if the screenshots scattered throughout this review hadn't already clued you in, The Tough Ones is presented at an aspect ratio of 2.40:1. With right at eleven hours of extras spread across The Tough Ones' three discs, the term "special edition" doesn't seem quite special enough. In twenty years of reviewing and somewhere north of 4,000 titles having passed through my hands, I can only think of a tiny handful of releases offering anything remotely close to the wealth of interviews and retrospectives that Grindhouse Releasing has assembled here. Better still, it's hardly a matter of quantity trumping quality; every last one of them is phenomenal. This labor of love was produced over the better part of a decade, and it's all the more meaningful given that we've lost Umberto Lenzi and Tomas Milian since these until-now-unseen interviews were produced. |
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