6.9 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.
Starring: Tomas Milián, Pino Colizzi, Isa Danieli, Salvatore Borghese, Luciano CatenacciForeign | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
Italian: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
English, English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Note: This version of this film is available on Blu-ray as part of Severin's Violent Streets: The Umberto Lenzi/Tomas Milian Collection box set.
In one of several worthwhile supplements Severin has aggregated for Violent Streets, commentators Troy Howarth and Nathaniel
Thompson
make the case that director Umberto Lenzi may not have achieved the renown of some of his
contemporaries at least in part perhaps due to the fact that, at least according to Howarth and Thompson, his directorial style wasn't "flashy"
enough, though the fact that Howarth's book about Lenzi includes the word kinetic in its title might subliminally undercut this thesis, one
way or the other.
There is a certain stolid quality to some of Lenzi's work,
to be sure, but
there are also at least moments of flourishes, but one way or the other, when you have a star like Tomas Milián snarling in front of the
camera, how much additional "style" do you really need? Milián is a near feral presence in all five films Severin has aggregated in this appealing
new
collection culled from Lenzi's rather impressively long filmography. Some of the supplementary interviews with Lenzi included on the various discs
in
this set might suggest that his relationship with Milián may not have always been smooth sailing, so to speak, and in a way I was reminded
(perhaps
only due to it very recently passing through my review queue courtesy of a bonus feature on Arrow's release of Black Sunday) some remarks by John Frankenheimer speaking to his evidently
intermittently stormy relationship with Burt Lancaster, another leading man with a somewhat feral presence. One way or the other, much as with
the
Frankenheimer - Lancaster collaborations, Lenzi and Milián formed a viscerally compelling symbiotic unit for whatever reason, and the five films
collected here offer more than abundant proof of the energy the duo brought to some admittedly at times otherwise pedestrian efforts. Severin has
perhaps sweetened the pot for a certain demographic by including soundtrack CDs with some of the films.
Brothers Till We Die is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Severin Films with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.35:1. As with the other titles in this set, the back cover of this release offers only a generic "scanned uncut in 2K from the original negative" as its sole technical data point. This is by and large a very pleasing looking transfer, especially in terms of color, and while I don't have the 88 Films version to do a side by side comparison, based only on screenshot comparisons, it looks to me like the 88 Films version had a somewhat yellowish tone to the transfer that is commendably absent here (compare, for example, screenshot 4 from this review with screenshot 1 from Svet's review to see some of the color timing differences, which are more than noticeable). While I didn't notice any aggressive noise reduction that led to deficits in detail levels, there are some curious inconsistencies, including a number of sequences in the police station that look either out of focus or like a defective lens may have been utilized (see screenshot 9, especially toward the edges of the frame). Very minor signs of age related wear and tear have made it through the restoration gauntlet.
Brothers Till We Die features DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono options in either English or Italian. Once again, I'd argue that the differences between these tracks are at best minimal, and possibly indiscernable, but if pressed, the Italian track arguably has a bit more presence and ambient reverb than the English. Kind of amusingly, if you toggle between the tracks, you'll discover that the underscore doesn't align exactly between the two. One way or the other, dialogue, score and effects are all presented without any problems. Optional English subtitles are available for both versions.
Even one Tomas Milián may be too much for some viewers, and so this outing may simply offer too much of an obviously out of control actor. This release sports some generally solid technical merits and some appealing supplements, for anyone who may be considering making a purchase.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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