6.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
The Eternals, a race of immortal beings with superhuman powers who have secretly lived on Earth for thousands of years, reunite to battle the evil Deviants.
Starring: Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kit HaringtonAction | 100% |
Comic book | 90% |
Fantasy | 78% |
Sci-Fi | 78% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1 (640 kbps)
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Region free
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Director Chloé Zhao has accomplished the impossible: she has crafted a lifeless Marvel movie. The film is as overlong and tedious a watch as life must be for the Eternals themselves, created beings who have lived on Earth for centuries and who have become scattered and bereft of purpose until an old enemy surfaces and truths emerge to bring them back together and...yada, yada, yada. The film seems happy to simply build from the Marvel playbook but forgets that it's not just a formula that makes these movies work. It's not just that dazzling chorography and tuned cinematography, not simply a grand score and an assortment of superpowered heroes that make an MCU movie great. While it offers character sprawl and powers aplenty, the film lacks what makes most of the others thrive: a beating heart. Eternals is a cold, soulless experience that never achieves more than overpromising and underdelivering on every main front: story, characters, and action.
Disney's 1080p Bu-ray presentation of Eternals checks all the right boxes. The image is clean, clear, and colorful (at least insofar as the content allows). The movie looks great on this format, reaching what looks like near peak efficiency for textural output and overall image sharpness. Faces, of course, reveal commanding depth and detail while various costumes, landscapes, and the like offer tack-sharp clarity throughout. Colors are expressive and stable. The film is fairly dark as it is but not so dark, and not so consistently, as to render any color output moot. Instead, even in darkness the sense of tonal fullness and accuracy is in evidence. Skin tones are healthy and black levels are very deep and true. The picture manages noise very well and there are no major encode flaws of note. The picture may not have any characteristics that make it really stand apart from the crowd but in many ways that's perfectly fine. This is about best-case scenario for Eternals on Blu-ray.
Eternals arrives on Blu-ray with a DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 lossless soundtrack. The presentation is not quite so severely neutered as other Disney tracks, but it is certainly still lacking in the subwoofer department. An earthquake at the 10-minute mark doesn't rumble like there's no tomorrow, but there's at least a tangible, borderline agreeable, level of depth at play. Still, it's nowhere near so potent as it should be, and other would-be deeply aggressive audio elements in various action scenes struggle to find that final gear for low end excellence. At least there's something here, anyway. Like other Disney tracks, everything else is in good working order. Clarity is excellent, musical detail is terrific, and the track is well capable of extending to its furthest reaches along the front and throughout the back as well. Atmosphere is well integrated into the track, and there's always a tangible sense of space and openness about it. Dialogue is clear and center focused, and there's even a mildly bass-y response whenever Celestial Arishem speaks.
Eternals incudes several extras, including an audio commentary track, two featurettes, a gag reel, and deleted scenes. A DVD copy of the film
and a
Movies Anywhere digital copy code are included with purchase.
With Eternals there was clearly some hope, and opportunity, to build something different: a carefully crafted character expose that takes the time to dig into the essences of the individual characters and the collective alike, looking at personal and group purpose and the induvial dynamics that both pull them together and draw them apart, all the while making various comments on the world around them. Sadly, none of this is realized to full potential. The movie is overlong, too, with middling performances stuck at the script's limits. Action is hard to come by through much of the movie, too, and the film is stylistically hard up to find its own identity. Disney's Bu-ray does look good. It sounds decent and there's a fair smattering of extras. Worth a look.
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