After picking up a few Arrow Video releases for the regular 4K collection, I decided to take a look at any that grab my interest and there were two that did for the same reason - they each had exclusive content for the limited edition versions. Now I tend to ignore these since Arrow are notorious with this model and there's a lot of demand for those pricey first print editions regardless, but here these two were reasonably affordable and I figured it was worth owning.
First we have Michael Mann's 2015 film Blackhat starring Chris Hemsworth which I'm not too familiar with but I have known the director's catalogue of titles like Collateral and Ferrari, both of which I also own but have not yet seen. This Arrow Video release has the theatrical cuts, both the US and International versions, on the 4K Ultra HD disc but what makes this limited edition release interesting is that it also includes a Blu-ray of the director's cut.
Next we have David Twohy's 2004 film The Chronicles of Riddick starring Vin Diesel, the second film in the Riddick film series and one that I have seen before but that was just over a decade ago. Arrow Video have released the first film (which was their very first 4K Ultra HD title) but I don't own it yet. This has three 4K Ultra HD discs in the package - the first two discs will be available for the standard edition which are the theatrical cut and director's cut while the third disc, which is exclusive to the limited edition, includes an alternate aspect ratio version of the theatrical cut, the cutscenes from the 2004 video game Escape from Butcher Bay, and a television special extra feature.
