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General		Extras
Category	Thriller	Theatrical Trailer(s)	None
Rating		Other Trailer(s)	None
Year Released	1994	Commentary Tracks	None
Running Time	123 minutes	Other Extras	Cast & Crew Biographies Production Notes
RSDL/Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Movie
Region	4	Director	Barry Levinson
Studio Distributor	Warner Brothers	Starring	Michael Douglas Demi Moore Donald Sutherland Caroline Goodall Dennis Miller
RRP	$29.95	Music	Ennio Morricone

    Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas) works for Digicom, a company in the computer hardware and Virtual Reality business. Digicom is involved in a merger worth $100 million dollars to its owner, Bob Garvin (Donald Sutherland). Problem is, their new flagship product has a pretty significant production problem, which Tom needs to sort out before the imminent merger. Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore), an ex-flame of Tom's, is made Tom's boss, and is given the task of discrediting him, and forcing him to resign. She charges that Tom sexually harassed her. Tom charges that Meredith sexually harassed him.

    Once this is over with, Tom needs to sort out the production problem, which is a major conspiracy on the part of Digicom.

    The first two thirds of this movie are excellent. The movie moves along at a cracking pace. Michael Douglas and Demi Moore play their roles superbly, with just the right amount of malice. Roma Maffia is the hard-nosed lawyer for Tom and is excellent in her role. The last third, whilst still quite good, sags just a little.

    I have two criticisms of this movie. Firstly, I found that all of the interconnected threads in this movie were a little too loosely connected for my tastes, making it a little hard to work out what was happening. As well as that, when the loose ends were tied up at the end of the movie, it seems somehow not to quite make sense. Considerable suspension of disbelief was required at times during this movie. Secondly, I thought that the Virtual Reality footage was unnecessary eye candy and served only to distract us from the otherwise excellent script.

Video

    The transfer is presented at an aspect ratio of 2.35:1, 16x9 enhanced.

    The transfer was mostly clear, except for scenes marred with aliasing. Shadow detail was good. No low level noise was apparent.

    The colours were clear and well-saturated throughout.

    No MPEG artefacts were noted. Aliasing was often present, particularly in scenes with venetian blinds, indoor office scenes and scenes with the ferry. Whilst not as bad as the worst Warner Brothers transfers, it wasn't far off, with the aliasing being a major distraction at times. Some film artefacts were present during the movie, but they remained at an acceptable level.

Audio

    Dialogue was usually clear and audible. Some dialogue, especially at the start of the movie, was a little hard to hear.

    There were no audio sync problems with this disc.

    The unremarkable musical score is by Ennio Morricone.

     The surround channels were lightly used for music. There was little ambience and nothing in the way of special effects in the surrounds. Nonetheless, the soundtrack was acceptably enveloping.

    The .1 channel was hardly used at all.

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    The video quality is acceptable, with substantial aliasing artefacts.

    The audio quality is clear but not particularly inspiring..

    The extras are very limited.

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© Michael Demtschyna
17th February 1999