6.5 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
The night before their high school reunion, a group of friends realize they still haven't quite grown up in some ways.
Starring: Lynn Collins, Rosario Dawson, Jenna Dewan, Brian Geraghty, Ari GraynorComedy | 100% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
English SDH, Spanish
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 3.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
High school reunions are frequently bittersweet affairs at best. I personally only ever had the courage to go to one of mine, the same vaunted tenth anniversary celebration that is at the heart of 10 Years. I had already long ago moved from the city where I had gone to high school, but had been asked back by my parents to housesit their home (and dog) for a few weeks that summer, so I decided to drop down to my reunion to see what various friends had done with their lives in the intervening decade. I knew I wasn’t going to stay very long, for all they were serving for dinner was roast beef, and I was (and am) a vegetarian, but I came to the little mixer before dinner and caught up with at least a few of my old acquaintances. Some of them were quite accomplished—attorneys, authors, successful businessmen and women—while others seemed to already be in a state of decline from which they were unlikely to recover. There were shocking elements as well, including one of the big football jocks of my senior year who was now almost completely sidelined by multiple sclerosis. Such are the vagaries of fate, and even if intimations of mortality aren’t exactly on the front burner of most 28 year olds’ minds, there’s perhaps the first real inkling that time is a precious commodity, and it’s best not to waste to much of it, that comes from attending a reunion like this. Overt philosophizing isn’t exactly on the front burner of this film’s mind, but it’s an agreeable enough ensemble comedy that features a number of winning performances if an absolute dearth of depth or inquisitiveness into what it is about reunions that is both bracing and more than a little terrifying.
10 Years is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Starz Anchor Bay with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 1.78:1. This is a fairly decent, if never overwhelmingly beautiful, high definition presentation that has the look of a slightly better than average made for television movie a lot of the time. There's no outrageous pop in the fine detail, though close-ups do offer reasonable color, saturation and clarity. A lot of the film takes places in darkened rooms once the reunion gets under way, and that leads to some additional loss of fine detail due to kind of murky contrast and inconsistent black levels. There's nothing here that's going to really drive persnickety videophiles crazy, but there's similarly little here that is going to provide much excitement either.
10 Years features a Dolby TrueHD 5.1 mix which offers good surround activity with regard to the ubiquitous source cues (including a karaoke scene), as well as the crowded environment of the reunion itself, where background sounds adds a nice level of depth while the lead actors' dialogue is mixed to the foreground. Fidelity is excellent, though dynamic range is fairly nonexistent, with little other than an occasional drunken outburst to provide much difference in amplitude.
I frankly didn't expect much from 10 Years, but its lack of pretension helped to overcome its similar lack of ambition. This is little more than a glorified sitcom (or perhaps dramedy), but the cast is extremely winning and Jamie Linden marshals his forces very well, spreading around the action between a rather large cast and delivering some gentle punch lines as well as some equally gentle emotion along the way. 10 Years probably could have been sharper and more involving had its cast size been cut, or had Linden spent a little more time letting us get to know each of the reunion participants, but even in this kind of haphazard sketch format, the film works a perhaps surprisingly large amount of the time. Image quality here is okay, nothing more, nothing less, while the audio is generally excellent if similarly not very exciting. The supplemental material is virtually nonexistent, but for Tatum fans or those who do fit this film's demographic (or maybe those who wish they did), 10 Years comes Recommended.
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