In addition to their April line-up, which includes The Killer, Hard Boiled and Beijing Bicycle, AU Label Imprint has announced the Blu-ray for 2002’s The Touch, a martial arts film directed by Peter Pau (Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal) that stars Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once).
A sister and brother, the last heirs of a family of acrobats, are called upon by a Buddhist monk sect to retrieve an artifact that their ancestors have protected throughout the ages.
The Touch also stars Ben Chaplin (Murder by Numbers), Richard Roxburgh (Van Helsing), Gabriel Harrison (Prostitute Killer), Dane Cook (Good Luck Chuck) and Kenneth Tsang (Code of the Assassins).
Features:
- 1080p High-definition presentation on Blu-ray of the US 83-minute cut
- 103-minute Original Theatrical Cut (standard-definition)
- Making Of The Touch
- Asia Promotional Tour – featurette
- Theatrical Trailer
- Audio: Mandarin DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 + LPCM 2.0 Stereo
- Aspect Ratio 2.35:1
- Optional English HOH Subtitles
Watch the Trailer (German) below:
Oh, this film. Riding off the success of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, this movie could have been better than it was. Too much poorly written dialogue and special effects, and the drop frame editing in the fight scenes made the movie look like it was glitching.
So, without the acrobat angle, it’s basically Yeoh’s proto-Medallion.
Apples and oranges. Although The Touch didn’t reach the horridness of Medallion, it’s like preferring getting smacked in the shoulder as opposed to eating shit.