Chinese Zodiac aka CZ12 3D Blu-ray (2012) [Region B Locked / Free] [123m uncut]

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Jackie Chan's CZ12 aka Chinese Zodiac aka Armour of God 3 was released on 3D Blu-ray in Hong Kong, Germany and the Netherlands.

The Hong Kong release contains the full-length (123m) original version with English subtitles for all the dialogue (the film is mainly in Chinese, but has a few scenes in English and other languages). Though the packaging indicates that it's Region A locked, it is in fact REGION FREE.

The German and Dutch releases are locked to Region B and contain only the shorter (103m) international cut despite the Dutch release listing a 119m running time on the packaging. Both discs contain an English audio track but please note that this still includes some foreign language parts and there are no English subtitles.

There is also a Russian release, but this has no English audio or subtitles and at 94 minutes appears to be cut even shorter.



Original post:
Hello I didn't see any thread for this 2012 movie directed by and starring Jackie Chan. So I only saw this for the first time last night. I didn't even realise there was a 3D release of it all then when I was considering picking up the 2D UK blu I noticed that there was a German 3D disc that didn't seem to be an autoconvert.

It's a fun Jackie Chan action romp with some absolutely terrific fight scenes and action. The 3D is very nice too, it looks like a conversion but it's generally well done. I assume it was done primarily for the Asian market. It's fairly medium 3D and it added a lot to the action scenes and the nice locations. What was interesting though was the disc is encoded with top/ bottom 3D so I actually had to change the 3D settings on my TV to watch it. I have literally never had a retail 3D disc play 3D this way. I would suspect it was a bootleg but I got it from Amazon Germany direct and to my knowledge I wouldn't expect them to sell bootlegs. I know there's an Asian disc out there which perhaps some posters here have so I'd be interested to hear their thoughts.

The disc is stamped with only a region B logo so I presume the German release is locked. For any fans of adventure and action I highly recommend it. It's very cheesy but the set pieces are excellent, with special mention going to the big finale fight, and a fantastic opening where Jackie is escaping a facility wearing a suit with wheels on every part of him so he can skate down a mountain road to escape the baddies. It's very funny, inventive and visually exciting.

Anyone else seen this? btw the release I got has reversible artwork.