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Also, expected release seven months from now?

$70 is definitely egregious. But I remember the msrp of a Criterion Raging Bull CAV laserdisc being $125 or so c. 1990. We have a ways to go before prices get to those days' relative cost of home video.

There's a Madman 4K for No Other Choice up for $23 preorder on Orbit

Thank you for the tip TWWB! I can't find the wishlist button anymore, did Orbit get rid of that after their site redesign? If so very annoying because it was useful to keep track of any release I was interested in.

"Add to Wishlist" button is right under the "Pre-order" button for me.

therewillbeblus wrote: Sat Mar 21, 2026 1:58 pm There's a Madman 4K for No Other Choice up for $23 preorder on Orbit

An Australian release cheaper than a US one is one of the signs of the Apocalypse, isn’t it?

I found out why the wishlist button wasn't showing up. I am using duckduckgo. When I switched over to Chrome, it was there. Huh.

Saw this a month or so when it was released (and flopped) at my local cinema.

I thought it was good but nowhere near as entertaining or dynamic at the Costa-Gavras adaptation from same novel called The Ax (2005).

I had hoped that this film would draw some attention and interest in the Costa-Gavras film but sadly that doesn't seem to have happened. To be fair the Costa-Gavras film is very hard to see. It was released in Australia and released on DVD by Madman but it now long out of print.

I highly recommend people tracking it The Ax because it is probably the best film Costa-Gavras has made since what I like to refer as his 'golden era' from The Sleeping Car Murders (1965) to Missing (1982) (what a great run that period was). I'll through in a recommendation for Adults in the Room (2019) whilst I'm at it.

The only English friendly physical media release of The Ax is the Australian DVD from Madman. The French Blu Ray of Adults in the Room is English friendly for those that are interested.

Anyway, I liked No Other Choice but found it oddly restrained for Park and can't help but be disappointed but I also carry the baggage of the brilliance of the Costa-Gavras film with me (and the DVD).

You make notice that Costa-Gavras is given a 'thank you' credit on No Other Choice and his wife Michele Ray-Gavras has a producer credit. I assume they still held the rights to the novel but Park is also a huge Costa-Gavras fan and Missing (1982) is one of his favourite films of all time.

I was surprised that I only learned recently that this was the same source as Costa-Gavras’ film, as you’d think it would come up more. Prob more a symptom of most modern critics not knowing more than what’s in the press kit (if they even read that)

Might be a US critics issue though, as French critics definitely specified it, and that searching for the movie in France, on Google or Wikipedia, mentions that it's adapted from the same novel Le couperet was adapted from.

This being written, it is mentioned in several English-speaking places, including (very simply) Wikipedia English page for the movie.