Everyone remembers what a predatory streak Michael Douglas displayed when he was doing business in “Wall Street.” Now picture Gordon Gekko playing weekend warrior. You’d guess that was roughly the pitch for “Beyond the Reach” (2015), a thriller in “Most Dangerous Game” mode that casts Douglas as a trophy-hunting financier and Jeremy Irvine (“War Horse”) as his desert guide-turned-quarry. The movie is a bit more watchable than its straight-to-DVD release would indicate and gives its star a chance to reprise his entitled miscreant act more broadly than in, say, “Solitary Man.” No coincidence, probably, that he’s also wearing his producer’s hat for the first time in several years. The best elements are the little touches that make Douglas’s morally skuzzy Madec chafe us: his moneyed boasting; the echo of his sinister, gravelly taunts over his ultra-luxe offroader’s PA system; the mid-stalking martini he grabs from the truck’s mini-bar. (And yes, gearheads, the gaudy half-million-dollar 6x6 does get its own featurette.) The showier material here doesn’t exactly rival that old “Greed is good” monologuing — “Fool me twice, I kill you!” is pure camp — but Douglas still has a knack for playing love-to-hateable. Extras: Douglas supplies commentary with director Jean-Baptiste Leonetti, while a featurette touches on the film’s YA source novel, which was previously adapted as the 1974 Andy Griffith TV movie “Savages.” Too bad there’s no flashback glimpse of that version — it would be some complement to last week’s season-by-season reissue of “The Andy Griffith Show.” (Lionsgate, $19.98; Blu-ray, $24.99)
SCIENCE FICTION CHAPPIE (2015)
Is artificial intelligence truly alive? It’s a question floated early on in this story of a robot salvaged from a mechanized police force and reprogrammed to think for itself. And it’s a question we’re especially intrigued to see the movie tackle, since it comes from Neill Blomkamp, director of the smart apartheid allegory, “District 9.” This one isn’t quite that brainy. But it boasts so many entertaining elements, particularly the lead motion-capture performance by Sharlto Copley, its shortcomings don’t sink the movie. With Dev Patel, Hugh Jackman, and Jackman’s inexplicable mullet. Extras: Blu-ray featurettes cover the effects work and Johannesburg setting. (Sony, $30.99; Blu-ray, $34.99)
CRIME DRAMA RUN ALL NIGHT (2015)
Nothing is more conducive to father-son bonding than a guy and his kid both having the Irish mob after them. That’s a casually bonkers sentiment at the heart of Liam Neeson’s latest gritty action vehicle, “Run All Night” — a theme that’s actually delivered with sleek conviction. If director Jaume Collet-Serra (Neeson’s “Non-Stop” and “Unknown”) managed to put together an entire movie this tonally sharp, it could rate as top-shelf. But the story gets away from its convincingly scaled sense of jeopardy in the late going, and ultimately unravels. Extras: featurettes; deleted scenes. (Warner, Blu-ray/DVD combo, $44.95)