Review by Matt Anderson

Beowulf's Blu-ray release is showcase material. Presented as "The Director's Cut," which offers only a few brief moments of extra gore, Beowulf is a mighty fine piece of imaginative storytelling, one that warns about the temptations and dangers of the more base human desires.

This Blu-ray edition sports all the content originally produced "exclusively" for the now-defunct HD DVD edition released earlier this year. And all of the supplemental content, including deleted scenes, is presented in high definition.

The most unique feature is entitled In the Volume, which takes advantage of Blu-ray's relatively new picture-in-picture capabilities. While the movie plays, the secondary picture plays through the entire filming of the actors in their black tights and electrodes on the set affectionately called "The Volume." The feature also incorporates scattered moments of pre-visualization footage.

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