| MOVIE |
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This is one movie that's starts off good and then ends up just being totally
absurd. It revolves around Lauren Holly an air stewardess who decides to steward a flight
to get over the recent problems of here life with her last boyfriend, maybe she should
have stayed at home. What was supposed to be an easy run of the mill flight with several
passengers on board gets interesting when the police rock up with a few extra passengers,
a serial killer and a rapist/murderer who are being transferred to L.A. for trial.
The
serial killer is played by Ray Liotta, who really is in his element in these types of
movies. By now you can guess what is going to happen as the filmmakers have the old book
of movie plots out of the library and used every one of them. So now the serial killer has
the plane, it goes through some typical action movie stuff and it is all up to Lauren
Holly to stop someone who the cops haven't been able to stop since he started to murder
people.
Attention DVD-ROM owners! After screwing up the mastering of this disc so that it wouldn't play on those
drives, VR held off the release of this disc in a hope to fix the problem. But instead of
doing that they decided to release the discs 6 months late and throw there balls in all
DVD-ROM owners faces.
THIS IS NOT GOOD
ENOUGH!
So now thanks to your own screw up you are
abandoning one of your main markets as a lot of DVD owners in Australia have these drives.
If you were serious about DVD in Australia you would have re-mastered the disc for the
better than release a rubbish disc.
Get your act together quick Roadshow!
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| VIDEO |
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At least this is one pleasing aspect of the disc. The movies visuals are indeed
good there were a couple of specs in the print but I believe this was a problem with the
master and not the transfer. The dark scenes were well rendered and there was no
noticeable MPEG artifacts.
Turbulence is framed at 1:85:1 and is 16:9 enhanced.
This disc is an RSDL disc, I could not
find the layer change at all during the movie
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| AUDIO |
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As usual the movie has 2 audio formats Dolby Digital 5.1 & MPEG Multichannel
5.1, I listened to the DD5.1 soundtrack. The soundtrack itself was very clear and
moderately aggressive. The surrounds were used quite extensively and the .1 channel was
used to underscore the sound effects and music.
The dialog itself was seemed muddy, there were time when
I had trouble understanding what was said, a little disappointing actually.
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| EXTRAS |
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Again the usual Roadshow fare, First the theatrical
trailer which again as usual is in a window boxed 16:9 format with DD2.0
sound. The sound in this trailer is hideous, very muffled and sounds flat.
There is also the usual Featurette and snippet interviews. Disappointing.
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| FINAL THOUGHTS |
| If you have a standalone player and like your standard run of the mill action
flick with no surprises this one may be worth the purchase, but I would rent it
beforehand. |
| 16:9
ENHANCEMENT |
DISC
RATING |
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REVIEW
EQUIPMENT
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Display:
48" Sony RPTV.
DVD Player: Panasonic A350 Player using S-Video Cables.
Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D508
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
Speakers: Accusound speaker
system. |
Copyright © 2000 by [Roger
Ward].
Revised: 26 May 2000 00:25:00 +1100
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| Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
| No of
Discs: |
1 |
| OFLC Rating |
M15+ |
| Running
Time: |
101
Mins |
| Case
Type: |
Keep
Case |
| Release
Date: |
5/3/1999 |
| Catalog
Number: |
1013729 |
| List
Price: |
$34.95 |
| Distributor: |
Village
Roadshow |
| Disc
Format: |
Pal |
| Disc
Type: |
Picture
Disc |
| Disc
Format: |
SS-RSDL |
| Chapters: |
24 |
| Macrovision: |
Yes |
| Manufacturer: |
DVM |
| Aspect
Ratio:
|
1:85:1 |
| Anamorphic: |
Yes |
| Film
Format: |
35mm |
| Dolby
Digital:
|
5.1 Surround |
| DTS: |
None |
| PCM
Stereo: |
None |
| Other: |
MPEG
5.1 |
| Languages:
|
English |
| Subtitles: |
None |
| Audio
Commentary: |
None |
| Theatrical
Trailer: |
Yes |
| Teaser
Trailer: |
None |
| TV
Spots: |
None |
| Dolby
Trailer: |
None |
| Documentary: |
Yes |
| Cast
& Crew Bios: |
Yes |
| Deleted
Scenes: |
None |
| Music
Videos: |
None |
| DVD Rom
Content: |
None |
| Collectable
Booklet: |
None |
| Scene
Access: |
Yes |
| Animated
Menus: |
None |
| Production
Notes: |
None |
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