Not exact matches
For a
screener disc, the audio and video
are of surprisingly good quality, although the final product
is sure to
be an improvement.
This
is largely due to the fact that I mainly just review
screeners and don't often take
discs offered that I already own.
Colors and sharpness
are not as polished or pristine as I'd like, but then, I received a
screener disc.
Since a
screener copy (in which all of the
disc contents
are crammed onto a single layer)
was used for this review, the picture quality experienced by me, plagued with compression artifacts and noise,
is not indicative of the final product.
It
's difficult to recommend the single -
disc or two -
disc just from what
is apparently a composite
screener.
It
's tough getting too jazzed about Fox
's DVD release, especially from an overly compressed
screener disc.
A great deal of this happens through the distribution of
screener discs for major films, which
are sent to people who belong to major voting bodies (guilds and critics» circles, plus Academy voters) to aid them in
being able to watch everything and fill out their ballots.
For this review, I had only a watermarked
screener disc, which compresses the content of the final product to a single layer and
is not remotely a good indicator of the actual quality.
We can only assume the politburo
was out to lunch when the
screener disc came round because there
's absolutely nothing in this story of a simple man crushed beneath the heel of a corrupt state that would make Vladimir Putin even slightly happy.