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This is a review of a 4k UHD disc, so let's get the unimportant points out of the way up front.
Underworld: Blood Wars is an awful film, with horrifically laughable dialogue, and hopefully that was it's purpose, as hewn from stone by director Anna Foerster.
Ms Foerster has come to direction after working in effects photography and miniatures. Since most films today are not signed by the director, I'll not call her the "filmmaker" on this one, hoping that she signed on when this project was already representative of what it is in its final form.
According to IMDb, she has a few projects in the offing, and hopefully, they're all hers, and representative of her talents.
I truly enjoyed the original Underworld, and less so those that came after. Filled with the shiny blue/blacks of deep night. The original was a nicely shot film, and one could see the action.
I know that dark in is.
Karl Walter Lindenlaub, who is a fine cinematographer shot the latest installment of Underworld, and whether based upon my system, which seems to be reproducing imagery nicely now, although with the nits of a panel, or by design, much of the imagery appears to have been taken with a lens cap in place.
The wonders of HDR aside, one could easily be watching an experimental Warhol production, possibly a six-hour film entitled A Flea and Its Adventures Around a Bat's Groin at Midnight.
The sum total of which leaves us with a bad film, that one can hardly see at times.
And kudos to Mark S. Allen, of ABC-TV, who called the film "The Best Underworld Yet."
Please let it be the last.
The film was shot in, and finished as a 4k DI, which means that the resultant 4k Blu-ray should be extraordinary. The reality is, that it presumably replicates the desired look of the film.
Audio, presented in Dolby Atmos, is huge, wonderful, and precisely placed.
Image - 5
Audio - 5 (Dolby Atmos)
Pass / Fail - Pass
RAH
Underworld: Blood Wars is an awful film, with horrifically laughable dialogue, and hopefully that was it's purpose, as hewn from stone by director Anna Foerster.
Ms Foerster has come to direction after working in effects photography and miniatures. Since most films today are not signed by the director, I'll not call her the "filmmaker" on this one, hoping that she signed on when this project was already representative of what it is in its final form.
According to IMDb, she has a few projects in the offing, and hopefully, they're all hers, and representative of her talents.
I truly enjoyed the original Underworld, and less so those that came after. Filled with the shiny blue/blacks of deep night. The original was a nicely shot film, and one could see the action.
I know that dark in is.
Karl Walter Lindenlaub, who is a fine cinematographer shot the latest installment of Underworld, and whether based upon my system, which seems to be reproducing imagery nicely now, although with the nits of a panel, or by design, much of the imagery appears to have been taken with a lens cap in place.
The wonders of HDR aside, one could easily be watching an experimental Warhol production, possibly a six-hour film entitled A Flea and Its Adventures Around a Bat's Groin at Midnight.
The sum total of which leaves us with a bad film, that one can hardly see at times.
And kudos to Mark S. Allen, of ABC-TV, who called the film "The Best Underworld Yet."
Please let it be the last.
The film was shot in, and finished as a 4k DI, which means that the resultant 4k Blu-ray should be extraordinary. The reality is, that it presumably replicates the desired look of the film.
Audio, presented in Dolby Atmos, is huge, wonderful, and precisely placed.
Image - 5
Audio - 5 (Dolby Atmos)
Pass / Fail - Pass
RAH
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