Pedro
Admiral
Just got my copy from amazon.co.uk (for a nice low price).
I'm enjoying the movie a lot more this time around, here in the UK we never got a cinema release, all I've seen before is a UK VHS squished in certain scenes and US DVD of unbelievably low quality, this was like an answer to my prayers having access to a home cinema whilst home from uni and such a high quality wing commander DVD.
Anyway for anyone intrested (assuming this hasn't been posted before, I couldn't spot it):
Anamorphic wide screen, single layer however there are no special features and only one audio track, the movie takes up the entire layer and this is clear from the very high quality picture.
Audio quality is superb, especially the base, put the volume upto full and it really got my heart racing. True 5.1.
Special effects are incredibly vivid.
Its been two years since I last watched this so I got to adjust my opinion slightly. Overall I feel this film was actually quite well directed, the writing is admittedly just plain bad but the action scenes are much more enjoyable than say the latest star wars movies and the musical score is possibly one of the best ever associated with a movie. Acting is hit and miss. But the whole visual style not matching the games no longer seems to bother me, infact, whilst I certainly don't preffer it, I do like it.
An underrated movie to be sure. As video game movies go, despite all the complaining (much of it justified, hell I recall joining in with it) which is probably the cause of me not having watched it in so long, it is, in my opinion, one of the best video game based movies made, outdone only by the original Resident Evil.
Movie: 3 stars
Picture/sound quality: 5 stars
Extra features: 0 stars
I tested the movie with 5.1 surround system and a widescreen CRT TV (38" I believe).
Its cheap, and in my opinion worth an import if you're in the US (assuming a true widescreen release hasn't since been produced there) for the increased visual quality.
I'm enjoying the movie a lot more this time around, here in the UK we never got a cinema release, all I've seen before is a UK VHS squished in certain scenes and US DVD of unbelievably low quality, this was like an answer to my prayers having access to a home cinema whilst home from uni and such a high quality wing commander DVD.
Anyway for anyone intrested (assuming this hasn't been posted before, I couldn't spot it):
Anamorphic wide screen, single layer however there are no special features and only one audio track, the movie takes up the entire layer and this is clear from the very high quality picture.
Audio quality is superb, especially the base, put the volume upto full and it really got my heart racing. True 5.1.
Special effects are incredibly vivid.
Its been two years since I last watched this so I got to adjust my opinion slightly. Overall I feel this film was actually quite well directed, the writing is admittedly just plain bad but the action scenes are much more enjoyable than say the latest star wars movies and the musical score is possibly one of the best ever associated with a movie. Acting is hit and miss. But the whole visual style not matching the games no longer seems to bother me, infact, whilst I certainly don't preffer it, I do like it.
An underrated movie to be sure. As video game movies go, despite all the complaining (much of it justified, hell I recall joining in with it) which is probably the cause of me not having watched it in so long, it is, in my opinion, one of the best video game based movies made, outdone only by the original Resident Evil.
Movie: 3 stars
Picture/sound quality: 5 stars
Extra features: 0 stars
I tested the movie with 5.1 surround system and a widescreen CRT TV (38" I believe).
Its cheap, and in my opinion worth an import if you're in the US (assuming a true widescreen release hasn't since been produced there) for the increased visual quality.