In 1995, La Haine hit a politically snoozy France like a petrol bomb wake-up call, but since then punk ethnographer Mathieu Kassovitz has directed just three films and taken 13 acting roles in other people's films. Not quite the enfant terrible everyone thought he was, then... Still, his explosive cult favourite remains a breeze-block milestone in angry urban cinema and this new three-disc 'Ultimate Edition' (with - caress it, lovingly - limited-edition steel case) goes a long way towards reminding us why.

Pepped by its pummelling, French hip-hop soundtrack (included here as Disc Three) and using concrete suburbs as a bleak, eloquent backdrop, La Haine's abrasive social-realism comes energised via Scorsese and Spike Lee stylistics. Its tense street-life portrait sees three bored young drifters - an Arab (Saïd Taghmaoui), an African (Hubert Koundé) and a Jew (Vincent Cassel) - taking a 24-hour freefall through poverty, frustration, alienation, social turmoil and police harassment, before - ultimately, inevitably - hitting bottom at the business end of a loaded handgun.

A decade on, the from-nowhere potency has dimmed a little, but the superb performances and sharp, textured detail remains.

DVD Extras:

Mathieu Kassovitz commentary
Feature-length Making Of
Casting and rehearsal sessions
Colour scenes
Soundtrack CD
Kassovitz on 2005 riots

Disc Two's excellent 119-min doc is the only major fresh extra following the previous Special Edition. It makes for a great package - but three discs? A bit of a cheat for anyone who's already ponied up for the original SE.