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Driving home from a bar, Malcolm, a respected policeman, clips a child on a bicycle. As the victim lies hospitalized in a coma, Malcolm anxiously convinces most of his colleagues he only happened upon the scene of the accident afterward, but one ambitious detective is suspicious and investigates further.
Starring: Tom Wilkinson, Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney, Melissa George, Lizzie SchebestaThriller | Insignificant |
Drama | Insignificant |
Crime | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbps)
English SDH
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
Bad things happen to good people. It's a fact of life that doesn't ever get lumped in with "death" and "taxes" but the truth of the matter is that if one lives long enough, something in life will arise to challenge the very moral fabric and constructed character of every individual. The lucky ones will get off relatively easy, maybe simply falling on a down season of financial hard times or enduring a difficult illness from which they eventually recover. For others, however, the shadow of a mistake can haunt for the rest of one's life, can drain the life-force from an individual and rewrite a life's course in an instant. In Felony, an Australian Drama film from longtime television Director Matthew Saville and based on Actor Joel Edgerton's script, a character must come to terms with the truth and subsequent cover-up of his involvement in an accident that's threatening the life of an innocent young boy. It's a wonderful character study that's physically downplayed to focus on the forward emotions and character depth that defines it, resulting in a rousing success of deep, intimate characterization and one of the better films of its kind.
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Felony's 1080p transfer is gorgeous. The film-sourced presentation retains a light, even grain structure and helps define a beautifully classic filmic appearance. Details are sharp and precise, with facial features often intimately revealed while clothing and various backgrounds are commendably sharp, and naturally so. Colors are bright and satisfying, whether yellow safety vests or cheery hues on clothes and decorations at a backyard birthday party. Flesh tones are even and natural, while black levels are mostly deep and satisfying, with only a couple of moments appearing to go a little paler and noisier than is ideal. The image is clean and there are no debilitating examples of compression issues. This is, overall, a stunning effort from Millennium Entertainment.
Felony doesn't require much of its Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack. It's a simple affair, with limited music and only a few background effects. Clarity and definition are fine in all regards. Light supportive ambience, such as beeping hospital machines and light background city atmospherics, help create a realistic, albeit rather calm, environment. The biggest single effect comes from a hovering helicopter heard around the 22:50 mark; it's suitably heavy and natural in placement and volume. This is predominantly a dialogue intensive film, however, and the spoken word enjoys natural center-based presence and faultless accuracy.
All that's included are trailers for Felony, Jamie Marks Is Dead, 4 Minute Mile, and Perfect Sisters.
Felony is a beautifully crafted and deeply intimate portrait of a man wounded by concealing the truth surrounding his involvement in an accident. It's a simple premise but one made great by thoroughly crafted and precisely performed characters who emote real, tangible pain along the way. Joel Edgerton, Jai Courtney, and Tom Wilkinson are all terrific as the film's leads, offering three of the finer performances in cinema over the last few years. Millennium Entertainment's Blu-ray release of Felony features superb video and good lossless audio but no extras beyond a trailer. Recommended.
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