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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language Movie Release: 1995 DVD Release: 01/14/2003 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV,Pan and Scan - Closed Captioned Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 36 mins Studio: New Line Home Video Members Wishing: 2 Genres: Crime, Crime Drama, Urban Drama

Seven years after his comedy Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), former music video director Julien Temple returned to feature films with the direct-to-video crime melodrama Bullet (1995), which featured a fine supporting cast. Mickey Rourke stars as Butch "Bullet" Stein, a Jewish junkie from the mean streets of Brooklyn who is paroled after eight years in prison. Butch rips off a runner for local drug dealer, Tank (Tupac Shakur), and is soon right back into his old habits of snorting coke and shooting up heroin with his best friend Lester (John Enos III). Enraged by Butch's affront and already determined to get revenge on him for a past wrong, Tank sets about getting even with his old enemy by hiring a hulking brute, Gates (Ray Mancini) to beat Butch. When the confrontation occurs, however, Gates breaks his hand on the battle-hardened Butch. Besides Lester, the only people in Butch's corner are his two brothers, the mentally-unhinged Vietnam War veteran Louis (Ted Levine) and aspiring artist Ruby (Adrien Brody), neither of whom can be counted on to help him in the inevitable showdown. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Mickey Rourke - Butch
Tupac Shakur - Tank
Ted Levine - Louis
Adrien Brody - Ruby
John Enos - Lester

Julien Temple directs Mickey Rourke and Tupac Shakur in the action film Bullet, which comes to DVD with a pair of transfers. The widescreen transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1, and is preferable to the standard full-frame image. The closed-captioned English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. English subtitles are accessible. This disc contains both the "R" rated version of the film as well as an unrated cut. Supplemental materials include interviews with the cast. Additional extras are available to those with a DVD-ROM drive. This is a fine release from New Line Home Entertainment that will appeal primarily to genre enthusiasts. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide