New Line Cinema cut the film by over 23 minutes from the original Hong Kong version for the international release, in addition to dubbing all the non-English dialogue (be it Cantonese, Mandarin, Russian or Ukrainian) into English, even though the film was already mostly in English. Other differences include a different opening titles sequence and a completely new music score composed by
J. Peter Robinson, replacing
Nathan Wang's score for the original release. Most home video releases and all HD releases around the world, including in Hong Kong, feature this cut version. The only home video releases to feature the original, uncut, undubbed version of the film with the original music score are Hong Kong releases by Mei Ah Entertainment, a Japanese laser disc by Towa and a Japanese 2-disc DVD by Warner Home Video which presents both cuts.