Few movies set on present-day Earth pack more audio-visual wallop than The Replacement Killers, and this DVD translation does it full justice. More successful as an exercise in style than as the morality play it purported to be, director Antoine Fuqua's bid to bring Hong Kong-inspired action to America serves as a fine demonstration of a DVD player's capabilities. The 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen format captures each expertly composed, exotically lit camera angle. While the sound quality is perfectly good in two-channel Dolby 5.1, the digital surround mode allows the viewer to hear a gunshot from the left speaker while the bullet thuds into its target in the right. Don't get this one for the extras, because there aren't many. They consist entirely of a theatrical trailer, subtitles in English, Spanish, or French, and a five-minute featurette that is little more than a glorified trailer augmented by a minute or so of interview footage.

Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer. Closed-captioned English soundtracks are rendered in both DTS ES Surround and DD-EX Surround, while French and Spanish soundtracks have been recorded in Dolby Digital Surround. English and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by Zemeckis and members of his crew. This is a fine disc for what it is, but the film is available on a different release with the same extras and a widescreen transfer. That disc if preferable to this one.