If you like it or not, this is the season for Johnnie To. The hit action director has had his three biggest movies released on DVD in the span of just a few months, starting with Tartan's releases of Triad Election and Election and now with Magnolia's release of the even-better Exiled. Working with the same beats as Sergio Leone's "spaghetti westerns," Exiled is completely an exercise of style over substance (some of the plot doesn't even make a lot of sense on second viewing), but you'll be unlikely to care. The gun battles are too glorious to be concerned with the two-dimensional characters in To's story of two rival bosses in 1998 Macau. Sometimes the slow burn of Exiled is a little too dragged out, but all the criticism washes away in the brilliantly staged choreography of the action scenes. We haven't seen this kind of balletic mayhem since the prime of John Woo.

Well, there are sadly only two, so one gets the best and one gets the worst. The longer and more detailed of the two behind-the-scenes featurettes, "The Making of Exiled" is an obvious choice for the best just because it offers some insight into how certain scenes were staged and how the film was developed. It would have been nice to get a To commentary or a bit more detail than a 12-minute featurette, but Exiled is the kind of release that you don't expect to come with a lot of bells and whistles. Collectors will be happy with the film itself.

There's an unusual trend with Asian films to include featurettes called "Behind the Scenes" that are literally just that - no interviews or narration, just shots of what happened on the other side of the camera. The fly-on-the-set approach may be appealing to some, but it gets a little boring even at just six minutes.

The real shame of Exiled on DVD isn't in the features, it's that the video and audio quality are a bit underwhelming for a film that needed to be all style. The picture is often too grainy and the sound is mixed poorly, particularly an awful dub mix. Don't watch Exiled dubbed. As a rule, don't watch anything dubbed if it also has a 5.1 track of its original language. And, if you're an action fan, check out Exiled. You won't be disappointed.