Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16043 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-06-23
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 128 minutes

Customer Reviews

Movie: 4/5 Picture Quality: 3.25~4.25/5 Sound Quality: 4/5 Extras: 2.25/5
Version: U.S.A / Region Free
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50
Running time: 2:08:36
Movie size: 35,309,082,624 bytes
Disc size: 39,525,927,767 bytes
Total bit rate: 36.61 Mbps
Average Video bit rate : 24.95 Mbps

Audio Formats

* English 1435Kbps (48kHz/16-bit) / French / Portuguese Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround
* Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround

Subtitles/Captions

English / English SDH / Bahasa / Chinese (Mandarin)
Chinese (Simplified) / Korean / Dutch / French
Portuguese (Brazilian) / Spanish (Latin American)

# Audio Commentary
# The Ultimate Sacrifice (SD, 22 minutes)
# Behind the Scenes with the Secret Service (SD, 20 minutes)
# Catching Counterfeiters (SD, 5 minutes)
# How'd They Do That (SD, 5 minutes)
# Deleted Scenes (SD, 5 minutes)

He Sets Out To Fix What He Can't
Clint Eastwood is ageing Secret Service Agent Frank Horrigan - a guy who still holds bad memories when John F Kennedy was assassinated. He feels he let everyone down that day, but when a young man calling himself Mitch Leary announces he wants to kill the current president, Frank makes himself available and tries everything to stop history repeating.

This is a good film, well told by Jeff Maguire and well directed by Wolfgang Petersen, better known for his work on The Perfect Storm and Air Force One, and has worked with Hollywood's elite for quite some time now. This film flows well, and is in no hurry to tell the story, which is nice. Plus Clint Eastwood is a legend, everything he does is successful and his powerful presence in front or behind the camera has always been well received. Renee Russo is also good in this, but top marks has to go to John Malkovich who I feel has been far underrated in the Hollywood system for too long. Ripley's Game has to be one of his best.

This Blu-Ray is good - full BD50 disk with a decent bitrate, and the colours are wonderful and remind me of when I saw this at the cinema. The audio is punchy and clear and worth checking out if you love this film. Bit disappointed with the extras as they're still in SD, really this could have done with an upscale. Really I would only suggest this BD to people who love this movie and must see it in HD, as this is a splendid transfer, it's vibrant and does justice to the original.

Rent if you don't know this movie, buy if you're a big fan.

Audio track in castilian spanish too
This Blu Ray has the audio track in castilian spanish too. Also all the extras have subtitles in spanish.

The film is really good with amazing special effects. A very interesting title for the HD.