'War' – High-Def Digest Review

[Attebery]

Just posted Kenneth's review of 'War.' He says the film is flawed, but has a startling twist ending that makes the film worth a rent. As for this Blu-ray release, the video transfer has some problems, but the audio track is reference quality in every way.

Full review here:
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1189/war.html

[Blu_For_U]

Bad PQ....pass. Bring on the real Jet Li movies

[cueCrew]

I picked this up figuring the action scenes would be pretty good. Then again, this was also my thinking in picking up Transporter2 and I have yet to watch that.

Having just updated my receiver to accept 7.1 over HDMI it is nice to have another 7.1 pcm title to play. I think 3:10 and Avengers are the only other ones in my collection.

[joey0480]

unfortunate to see the picture took a beating

[Southpaw]

I thought he was pretty harsh on this one. I agree with his assessment of the movie itself. I thought the twist was fine and made the movie worthwhile. I liked the video. I thought it looked pretty darn good. Audio was the crown jewel though...no question about that.
I also liked the trivia track even though he dissed it. Lots of good info if you are into that sort of stuff. Apparently Ken isn't.

[taygan315]

Originally Posted by Southpaw

I thought he was pretty harsh on this one. I agree with his assessment of the movie itself. I thought the twist was fine and made the movie worthwhile. I liked the video. I thought it looked pretty darn good. Audio was the crown jewel though...no question about that.
I also liked the trivia track even though he dissed it. Lots of good info if you are into that sort of stuff. Apparently Ken isn't.

Agreed. I thought the pq was about a 4,imho. Not bad...few flaws..but not bad. I liked the film. Especially the ending. Triva tracks are a feature I have always enjoyed.

[Attebery]

cueCrew, check out Roger Ebert's review of Transporter 2. He makes the movie sound like such a fun corker that you might enjoy it. 'Course, I haven't seen it either, but if I had a copy, Ebert makes me think it might be the perfect movie for a cold Friday night.

[cueCrew]

Originally Posted by Attebery

cueCrew, check out Roger Ebert's review of Transporter 2. He makes the movie sound like such a fun corker that you might enjoy it. 'Course, I haven't seen it either, but if I had a copy, Ebert makes me think it might be the perfect movie for a cold Friday night.

Sounds like a plan. I had no idea who Statham was when I rented the original, then ran out and bought them both with Crank (which i could have passed on PQ aside, just not my thing I guess).

Probably the Audi envy. To be fair, I haven't watched "Unleashed" yet, either. Wait a second... I'll stop typing and go watch movies!

[hi-def-fanboy]

Less than stellar PQ but kick ass audio. Are the other studios listening!! Please give us Hi Def sound on our discs please.

[Adam Barratt]

PCM 24-bit 7.1-channels at 6.9mbps? I have to wonder how that figure was arrived at.

Yesterday I read the site's review of Good Luck Chuck with PCM 7.1-channel 16-bit audio at 6.9mbps. That reviewer also seems to be using the same broken calculator.

[Expectancy]

I thought the PQ on this movie was pretty good, with the AQ being the crown jewel. Was the movie flawed, yes, but it was still a watchable movie with some great action scenes.

[holsty101]

Originally Posted by cueCrew

I haven't watched "Unleashed" yet, either.

Oh man, Unleashed has some of my favourite fight scenes ever. Yuen Woo Ping FTW!

[Scooby]

Third act twist he? I bet he was dead all along.

[ScoBro828]

What exactly where the bonus features of this disc? I thought the warchest thing (or whatever it was called) as well as PIP were for profile 1.1 yet they played in my profile 1 player. Am I mistaken or was this not a "true" 1.1 disc?

[krammer]

Originally Posted by ScoBro828

What exactly where the bonus features of this disc? I thought the warchest thing (or whatever it was called) as well as PIP were for profile 1.1 yet they played in my profile 1 player. Am I mistaken or was this not a "true" 1.1 disc?

Oh it is a 1.1 disc.

It has not 1 but two PIP options.

One with the director babblin & the other is a narrative of "did you know" kinda stuff with interviews with the actors as well.

There is a bunch of other stuff too but I can't remember. (don't care for extra features at all!)

I watched about 30 minutes of it & I thought the PQ wasn't perfect nor demo worthy but it still a noticeable improvement from SD.