6.6 | / 10 |
Users | 4.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Tom Selleck turns in a riveting performance as Jimmie Rainwood, an average citizen whose life becomes a living nightmare when he's framed by a pair of crooked cops and sent to prison for a crime he did not commit. With his life torn apart, Rainwood swears revenge, vowing to fight back and deliver justice to the dishonest cops who set him up-no matter what the price! Ultimately, Rainwood risks everything to recapture his normal life, and prove once and for all, that he is An Innocent Man!
Starring: Tom Selleck, F. Murray Abraham, Laila Robins, David Rasche, Richard Young (I)Crime | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Drama | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 16-bit)
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Peter Yates' "An Innocent Man" (1989) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber. The supplemental features on the disc include a vintage trailer for the film; new video interviews with actors David Rasche and Laila Robins; as well as exclusive new audio commentary by filmmaker and film historian Jim Hemphill. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
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Presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.85:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, An Innocent Man arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.
Out of the many films from Touchstone/Disney's catalog that Kino Lorber have reissued and I have seen to date, this release is sourced from the best master. It is older, but it is very healthy and with all-around very solid organic qualities. In fact, excluding some tiny nuances that can be better exposed during darker footage, I think that it is pretty much a flawless master. In some areas the encoding could have been optimized to make it even more obvious that it is so, but I still liked what I saw a lot. Depth, clarity, and fluidity are really, really good, and the color grading is done with an excellent awareness of the importance of proper balance. If a new master is ever created for this film, I really believe that the improvements it would offer will be academic at best. Overall image stability is excellent. There are no large distracting debris, cuts, damage marks, warped or torn frames to report. My score is 4.25/5.00. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There are two standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature.
I lean toward the 5.1 track as the better one because the front channels actually sounded a little better on my system, but there are other spots on the 2.0 track that I prefer. To be honest, I am not entirely sure how, or when, these tracks were finalized because they actually feel pretty different. Clarity, depth, and dynamic intensity are very nice, but if a new remix is done in the future, I would think that balance will be looked at and quite possibly improved.
David Rasche thinks that An Innocent Man would have had a different fate if Lock Up did not compete with it in 1989. I don't know, I am just not convinced that filmgoers thought of them as direct competitors. For my money An Innocent Man is a better film, but they are quite different. This recent release is sourced from an older but very solid master and offers an all-around much better technical presentation of the film than Mill Creek Entertainment's first release. The folks at Kino Lorber also produced a couple of very nice exclusive bonus features for it. (If you enjoy An Innocent Man, also consider adding to your collection Tom Gries' The Glass House). HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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