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• Best Men | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £5.27   |  Saving you £0.72 (13.66%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Tamra Davis' Best Men must have seemed a better idea on paper than it ends up being in practice, in spite of some snappy dialogue and good central performances. A group of male friends meet Jesse (Luke Wilson) out of prison to take him to his wedding to Hope (Drew Barrymore); along the way, their friend David pops into the bank for some money and turns out to be the Shakespeare-spouting bandit Hamlet. Suddenly all of them are his unwilling accessories in a hostage situation with David's sheriff father and murderous FBI men besieging them and a crowd cheering their every move. Each of the young men has a trauma and it is not only David who gets a soliloquy: gay Green Beret Buzz (Dean Cain) has an extended period of bonding with one of the hostages, demented Vietnam vet Gonzo (Brad Dourif). The eventual action sequences are curiously perfunctory and uninteresting and the obsessive FBI man, Hoover, has little motivation. This is a likable film which goes nowhere, but has quite a lot of gentle charm along the way to its tragic ending. On the DVD: the DVD is presented in a widescreen video aspect of 2.35:1 and has Dolby surround sound; the special features are a slightly self-congratulatory "making of" featurette and the film's theatrical trailer. --Roz Kaveney

• Cold Vengeance | DVD | (05/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Jimmy Coy has only known one life - crime. Starting over won't be as easy as he hopes especially when he owes one last job to 'The Family' that raised him. But Jimmy has his own feelings with respect to loyalty. When his old gang turns against him and a rival gang joins the mix Jimmy pits the two against each other. Now if he can just save himself and his new love the sexy Cassandra in the process. Drastic circumstances call for drastic measures as Jimmy and Cassandra battle double-crosses triple threats and one bomb set to explode. A dramatic climax at a sporting event where thousands of fans' lives hang in the balance will leave you breathless.