'Derailed' -- High-Def Digest review

[PeterB]

Checked out 'Derailed' tonight:

http://hddvd.highdefdigest.com/derailed.html

Never saw it in the theater, but a fun 'Fatal Attraction'-like thriller, only without Glenn Close. Good transfer, too, though the extras are crap. At least worth a rent, though for fans of the genre.

[Overseer]

Dang Peter,

What 'She-Devil' pissed on your Wheaties that you start your review that way.

I was thinking about not picking this up, but after your review I'm gonna have to check it out now.

Thanks,
Bill

[Tejstar]

Me too - this passed me by when it came out in the pictures. Your review has pique my interested in the movie although I think I'll go for a rent instead!

[alfbinet]

Originally Posted by Tejstar

Me too - this passed me by when it came out in the pictures. Your review has pique my interested in the movie although I think I'll go for a rent instead!

I rented the SD version and was pleasantly surprised. I am not a JA fan but she was actually good in this movie. The story held my interest, great popcorn flick on a Friday night.

[Mark_H]

A generally poor looking HD-DVD. As noted in the review, noise is present throughout, and particularly in dark flat areas like walls. Edge enhancement is also visible. I think colour saturation wasn't so much subdued as simply wrong, but haven't seen the film at the cinema so have no reference. Disappointing.

[irascian]

Well I'm with Peter. I didn't have high hopes for this (a pitiful 21% rating on "Rotten Tomatoes" although imdb gives it 64%) but watched it tonight and really enjoyed it. Sure you have to suspend disbelief in a couple of places, but other than that it moves along at a cracking pace and has a few twists that keep you interested.

As for the picture quality. Since I went High Definition I've taken to sitting just 6 feet instead of 20 feet away from my 50" plasma (running at 720p) where I think the HD-DVD disk warrants it. I had no problems with the picture quality and thought it was better than a reference standard definition disk. I finished watching the film tonight thinking "I don't think I can go back to sitting on the couch 20 feet away and just watching standard DVD".