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A Look At Kelvin Tong's MEN IN WHITE DVD

by Todd Brown, September 26, 2007 5:09 AM

Thanks to the international success of The Maid Singapore's Kelvin Tong currently sits as that nation's best known cinematic export and is also a major box office force at home. To his credit Tong has resisted the urge to go the easy route and try to repeat his success within the horror genre, instead dabbling in a number of other fields since. The man is currently at work prepping an action film in Hong Kong and his latest film has just arrived on DVD in his native Singapore. Men In White fuses Tong's horror background with his love of Stephen Chow style slapstick comedy, making it a very manic, very silly film. The humor is in many cases very regionally based and so rather than exposing my own ignorance reviewing the film itself I'll simply defer to the review previously written by our own Singapore-based Stefan who caught the film during its theatrical run there.

The DVD - available from Singapore based retailer Moviexclusive - comes in a very clean transfer presented in letterboxed widescreen rather than anamorphic, which seems to be the norm for releases there. Subtitles are offered in English, Chinese and Malay options and the bonus features limited to trailers and music videos.