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written by Tsunami / photos by Tsunami
Well folks. Finally got around to reviewing this old Japanese set. Brought to you by Universal Japan, reviewed for you by Skullface.
- Tsunami's Verdict - - Build Quality: 5 - - Content and Extras: 8 - - Overall Rating: 7 -
So, from the first impressions I got from only
seing the promo-shots of this box, and seeing the massive amounts of contents it had, I figured
that this was a box, not unlike Scarface (also put out by Universal, the American division). I
actually didn't read much about it before I got it, so I had that idea fresh in my mind that this
was going to be a big box. So it was a little dissapointment that when it arrived it was merely a
hard case slipcase.
After I got over that initial dissapointment I started to see the box for what it was. So lets
endulge.
First up to make a comparison, this box is similar to the Indiana Jones Hard Case Slipcase. The
letters are embossed, even the smallest letters and that red line seperating the words are embossed,
which is a pretty nice detail. The artwork is nice and of high detail.
Looking inside the box well find a regular
keepcase for the 2-Disc Premium DTS edition of Red Dragon. Pretty standard thing, they could've
gone with a digipac solution, which most definitly would've been alot nicer. Then I pull out a
black little cardboard container. With the text "Red Dragon" on the front, and when I open it,
and remove the plastic I find the nicest looking senitype frame I have ever seen. Clear plexi
with a film cell inside, to the left of the film cell there are some cast credits and the movie
title "Red Dragon" underneath. If you turn it over, you can pull out a plate and release the
filmcell, but I really don't see why you would. A fantastic filmcell holder.
Then there's a mini fake prop newspaper; "The National Tattler", it actually has news stories
inside, nice touch to expand the feel of the movie.
Then there's the tattoo thing. Really didn't see
the point of it. I guess its cool for little kids but this movie is aimed for adults so I think
this wasn't really needed to complete the feel of the box in any way. There's also a booklet,
bigger than most DVD-booklets, but all in Japanese, so pretty useless to people not fluent in the
language. There's also a hardbound criminal notebook, this one is actually for the most part in
english, I think its in both english and japanese, because theres some japanese on every second
page. Maybe the translation of the English texts.
And thats pretty much it!
All in all, they've crammed alot of stuff into this slipcase, so for a slipcase its pretty
packed and nice. But with this much extras, they could have gone for something a little more
fancy than just this cardboard slipcase. It's japanese, it's expensive, but at least its quality!
Cardboard Slipcase pretty much says it. It's not
the most beautiful thing you could imagine, but this one has some nice details as the nice embossed
letters on even the smallest word, line and dot, and the high detailed artwork.
Packed, its got alot of extra stuff in here, the
most notable are the hardbound criminal notebook, the senitype and the fake prop newspaper. But with
all this extra, they could've gone for something bigger and more outstanding in the exterior department
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