Region 4 Winners and Losers

    The DVD available to buy on its own in Region 1 appears to be a single DVD release that contains the film, which by the way is an extended director's cut, and a limited package of extras comprising the theatrical trailer, making of featurette and the LL Cool J music video. Accordingly, that release is vastly inferior to the Region 4 release and if you are wanting the film alone, Region 4 is the standout winner by such a long way it is not funny - especially as the landed price in Australia would be not much less than you could pick this up for locally at one of the chain stores (mine set me back $29.85).

    The online reviews of this single DVD release would indicate a similarly excellent video and audio transfer by the way.

    However, if you are a hard-core Oliver Stone fan, you might be interested in the 10 DVD Oliver Stone Collection available as a box set in Region 1. Any Given Sunday is included in this box set in its 2 DVD version, and from what I can find out it would seem to be pretty much similar to the normal Region 4 release. However, to get this 2 DVD version you would have to be indulging serious dollars as the set goes for around the USD200 mark - hence the reason it would be for serious fans only. As far as I can ascertain the 2 DVD version is not available separately yet, although it may become so available later, or may be so available where a retailer has broken up the box set. However, even if it were to become available separately, I would have serious doubts as to whether it would offer any substantial improvement over the Region 4 release.