Reign Of Fire
Video 9/10
Audio 9/10
Any doubts about Mpeg4 can safely be laid to rest with this transfer! The level of detail is incredible, this movie really needed HD, looks exactly as I remember it in theaters. That is to say, there is a lot of intentional grain on daylight exteriors for the gritty post apocayptic look(which is the only thing that keeps this movie from being reference quality), and gone are the halo's on the DVD. My only compaint about the release, is that it seems impossible to remove the Japanese text from say, newspaper headlines and signs. At least I can't figure it out with menu navigation, but it's a minor issue.
Audio is predictably spactacular, if slightly front heavy. The bass in this film will shake off anything on your shelves thats under 3lbs! Great release, if this is the sort of quality to be expected from Japanese releases, I can't wait for xXx!
Now if it were only in an actual HD-DVD case.
