Stars:
Bryan Brown, Claudia Karan, and Tom Long
Writer:
John Armstrong
Director:
Alan White
Feature
length: 89 minutes
Extras:
Cast and Director Interviews and Trailers
Languages:
English Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:
English Captions and Spanish Subtitles
Packaging:
Alpha Keep Case
Chapter
Stops: 24
Sound:
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
Year
of DVD Release: 2002
Home
Video Distributor: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
MPAA
Rating: R
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Tom
Long is a naive insurance investigator who gets a crash course in how to cheat
the company he works for by his mentor and boss played by Bryan Brown and a
sultry seductress played by Claudia Karvan. An Australian film import, Lions
Gate Home Entertainment is distributing “Risk” under the Trimark label. The
film is pretty good considering it borrows a bit from a similar formula used in
Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street,” but with a more upbeat ending. American
audiences will recognize Bryan Brown from the “FX” films he starred in
opposite Brian Dennehy.
I
am not familiar enough with Australia to know where the film was produced. I’m
guessing it is Sydney, but the film never reveals the city’s name.
However regardless it is a beautiful and clean city and appears very
different from my beloved hometown of New York. The (1.85:1) anamorphic
widescreen transfer is very good with a crisp look and no anomalies at all. The
English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Soundtrack is well mixed.
English Captions and Spanish Subtitles are encoded as options and the
interactive menus feature full motion scene selections.
Extra
features include an eight-minute featurette with videotaped interviews with
Actors Bryan Brown, Claudia Karvan, Tom Long, and Director Alan White discussing
the characters and storyline as well what attracted them to the project.
(1.33:1) Trailers for “Kill Me Later” and “and “Risk” along with a
(1.85:1) trailer for “The Rules Of Attraction” wrap up the extra features on
this DVD.
“Risk”
is available on DVD-Video now from Lions Gate Home Entertainment.
©
Copyright 2002 By Mark A. Rivera
All Rights Reserved.