Wolfgang Petersen Collection (2000)

The new-to-video The Perfect Storm may be the splashy main attraction of this DVD gift pack, the Wolfgang Petersen Collection, but it's Petersen's other, far better high-seas adventure, the gripping WWII U-boat epic Das Boot(available here in its 3-hour-plus director's cut), that gives the boxed set its ballast. Filling out the program: Petersen's pair of smart, muscular presidential thrillers. Teaming with A-list tough guys Clint Eastwood (In the Line of Fire) and Harrison Ford (Air Force One), the German-born director gives a textbook demonstration of how to go Hollywood without losing your edge.

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