Well, as expected - it is a noticeable improvement, but the, almost 20-year film, doesn't really show the most prominent advantages of high-definition. As we expected - colors and detail show themselves to a higher degree and everything is much tighter. Nikita probably looks about as good as it can at present with a dual-layered transfer taking up almost 30 Gig with a soaring bitrate.

Strongly improved is the track with bumps to TrueHD. There are quite a few aggressive moments in the film and the Surround get a decent workout. I think this is a good mix for the original French language.  The English seems problematic though and a poor DUB - which we suggest avoiding. There are subtitle offered in English SDH, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese or Korean.

Surprisingly for such a fine film - there are no extras - not even a trailer. This is a bit of a slap in the face to fans - but, I must admit seeing it looking and sounding so much better than ever before was a definite treat. I'd forgotten how enjoyable a thriller this is. My enjoyment encourages me to recommend. Enjoy! 

ON THE SD-DVDs: While looking at the pictures I must say that MGM did it again. Ones more they cropped a lot information from all sites. Other examples for this behavior are the Special Editions for RoboCop or Species. The Trimark has for my taste a much better color representation over the MGM. But then MGM throws in an anamorphic transfer. I give it a tie.

On the audio site the MGM is the clear winner as it comes with remastered tracks in Dolby Digital 5.1 in French and English. Something very odd you can find with the subtitles while listening to the English dub. It seams that on both releases the subs are direct translation for the French language, as the spoken word is mostly different to the written word in the subs.

As for extras the MGM beats the Trimark hands down which wasn't hard anyway, the Trimark has no extras.