Unfortunately, the sound quality on Race with the Devil isn't all it could be, as the audio mix makes the music and sound effects sound a lot louder
than the dialogue track.
Not exact matches
On big screen TVs the image comes alive better
than any previous home video incarnation, but it's the superlative 5.1 surround remix (at 24 - bit from the 35 mm LCRS and
dialogue - music - effects
tracks) that most impresses.
A default subtitle
track translates some Hebrew and a little Italian
dialogue, doing more
than needed.
The 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround
track is more center channel - intensive
than one would have hoped, with the majority of the
dialogue and sound effects emanating from the middle speaker.
Trevor Rabin's musical score tends to be a bit loud at times, but this is due more to design
than the
track reproduction itself, and it doesn't interfere in hearing the
dialogue.
Nonetheless, despite its mediocre dimensionality, the
track's strong fidelity, surprisingly powerful bass, decent surround sound action and solid
dialogue reproduction make it a more
than adequate audio option.
The tense
tracking shots interspersed with static point - of - view sets the scene more
than any line of
dialogue could - it's two years on from events of 2014 film Dawn and the battle between humans and apes, fuelled by the traitorous Koba (Toby Kebbell), has rendered the world a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
But, the dynamic range on the
track is off, and the music (which dominates the movie) is much, much louder
than the
dialogue.