Just saw the movie this past weekend. Lives up to all the reviews and the hype. And to be honest, this is coming from someone who thought Dark Knight Rises was a bore. Don't hate.
Video was definitely grainy and soft: But bear in mind this whole movie was shot on a budget of $1 million. That covers production costs, cameras, actors salaries, crew salaries, accommodations, misc expenses etc etc.
Also it may have been the intention of the director for the movie to look that way since the whole setting is pretty gloomy.
Audio could've used more oomph. I thought so. We're spoiled with reference audio discs. That's ok, because those movies have budgets of $100+ million.
So to be honest, i have no real complaints.
Now to quote someone from Amazon:
$1 million can get you an hour and a half of one of the best action movies you'll ever see, or 52 seconds of Transformers 3, utter PG-13 garbage.
The plot is perfectly executed for the movie this is. All you need to know is setup right in the first 5 minutes. The who, the why and the what. Done. Don't care for the melodrama that can exist in some action movies, the long segments of getting to know a certain character. You can figure it out all here within the first five minutes. What type of person they are, what their past may have been like, what their ideals and ideologies probably are. We can deduce all that for ourselves.
That's all you need, and everything plays out like an episode of 24. Feels like real time turn of events. Incredible choreography and an amazing transition from gun fights scenes to full on martial arts.
One word: SENSATIONAL!!!!
and does the Steelbook look GORGEOUS!!! Can't wait.
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Update on Audio:
I watched the movie first at my friend's home cinema (he has dual subs, def tech towers etc etc) and I thought some of the gun fire lacked a bit of low end frequency punch. I was wrong, I viewed it on my home theater again and the subs were rocking the place. I think my friend has his subs toned down a bit which is why I didn't feel them bass punching me in my chest. But I felt it at home.
I have dual Klipsch RW-12D
Hollywood, I beg you, leave the remaking of this movie alone. There is not a single actor in Hollywood, known, or unknown that is physically capable of doing what they do in this movie.
there is plenty they can do, in this day and age transfers 30+ years old can be improved they just can't be bothered. How do we know what the transfer will be like, is anyone on the inside track? Awesome steelbook and awesome movie, so i'm happy.
this last night. Blind buy for me, but heard so much about it and I love these kind of films. Don't know how I missed it first time around 
