Blu-ray – Edition FR – Koba Films – 97 min – 18 January 2023
Video format
• Resolution: 1080p/24
• Ratio: 2.39
Soundtrack
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
• French
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers as well as the viewing equipment specified and used by each tester of the MaG team, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence the rating. Moreover, the images in the article are not representative of the edition tested.
WORK – Rambo, First Doom
Lieutenant Kate Sinclair's Royal Air Force aircraft was shot down over one of Afghanistan's most dangerous rebel strongholds. While she finds refuge in an abandoned Soviet bunker, she discovers mortal creatures...
Back to missing sources for Neil Marshall with this series B horrific broke where the projections gore and the attacks of glumout (rubber) poison are « slaughtered » by a directed shipment, dusty stereotypes, a play of laughable actors, poorly digested references (Aliens, Resident Evil, The Thing...), a cluster of outliers and forced punchlines. The Werewolves So the beginnings are far away in this « Daube Soldiers » Hey!
IMAGE – Having a look of nothing
Entirely digital and not very beautiful (a generic photograph as possible), this 1080p image generally clean (in a few planes where noise and colour banding wander in dark corridors) unfolds fine details (day and night) and contrasts very timely so that the underlighted places remain discernable just what it takes. As for the colours, saturated with rigour, they develop a beautiful vivacity for artificial lighting (the fluorescent green stick, the red emergency light) and affix a certain desaturation for the exteriors marked by the cooking sun.
SOUND – Staying the bill in the air
If it is attacked on all sides at the back (the whistle of the bullets, the presence of the Ravagers, the atmospheric atmospheres), this 5.1 mixing encoded in DTS-HD MA (in both VO and VF) lacks tremendous power (low budget obliges) so that explosions and other shots have the least impact. There are therefore many movements during the action scenes, but without energy, they lose in intensity.
For the rest, the spatialisation is perfectly operational, the dialogues are very clear (the dubbing of the VF happily accentuates the bourrin side of the characters) and the synthwave to the martial flights does not fail to besiege us.
CONCLUSION – Promise in the air?
After Hellboy, his hell reboot, and Witch, his historical drama craspec, the British director continues his « Descent » in the darkness of the DTV with this indigent pseudo-survival. But if this operation is in your strings, the good A/V performances of this Blu-ray will make you lift your thumbs in « Air » Hey!
Artistic note
4
Video quality
8
Audio quality
7
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