6.6 | / 10 |
Users | 4.5 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
The story of how Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Maurizio Gucci, plotted to kill her husband, the grandson of renowned fashion designer Guccio Gucci.
Starring: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Jared LetoBiography | 100% |
History | 50% |
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)
Spanish: DTS-HD HR 7.1
French (Canada): DTS 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
Digital copy
DVD copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Director Ridley Scott's (Alien, Gladiator) House of Gucci teeters on greatness not because its story is particularly unique but because its characters are particularly engaging and well performed. The film, based on the true story of the Gucci family's fall (and based on Sara Gay Forden's 2001 book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed), tells the story of the empire's infiltration from the outside and the chaos that followed. Scott directs with a master's eye for detail, cadence, and compelling storytelling, compelling even as the material follows a fairly routine line of evolution. Still, it's based-on-real-life tropes done very well, with Lady Gaga and Adam Driver delivering in-depth and compelling performances as the leads.
House of Gucci looks superb on Blu-ray. The image is tack-sharp, revealing the finest point textural might revealed by its digital source content. The image offers striking facial and skin complexities, tactile hair density, refined clothing lines, and superior clarity to various location details throughout a fairly wide-ranging array of places. The image's textural might holds steady throughout and there are no downturns to soft or smudgy elements. Colors are bold, offering pinpoint precision to nuanced depth and output. Again, clothes are an obvious highlight for vivid, expressive color output and high yield saturation. Contrast and temperature fall into a neutral range; there is not overly warm content nor frigidly cold or desaturated color tuning at play. Black levels are perfect and skin tones look fantastic. The picture reveals very little source noise and no major encode issues of note. This is a terrific Blu-ray presentation from Universal.
The supplied DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 lossless soundtrack offers a precise audio experience that balances all elements around the stage and delivers exacting definition to every critical sonic output. Dialogue is, of course, first and foremost amongst the audio track's needs, and the spoken word is in fine condition, playing with consistent clarity and front center replacement. It is always clear and audible and well prioritized for the duration. Music stretches far, engages the surrounds as needed, presents with adequate subwoofer output, and holds to lifelike detail from beginning to end, whether popular music or score. Ambient effects and general atmosphere are nicely integrated and lifelike. The track is not populated with overtly intense sound elements, but what is here is managed and presented very well
This Blu-ray release of House of Gucci includes three featurettes. A DVD copy of the film and an Apple TV digital copy code are included
with purchase. This release ships with a non-embossed slipcover.
House of Gucci lacks narrative ingenuity (even as it's based on a true story) but its relative lack of novelty is more than masked by both Scott's expert workmanship and the cast's superb performances, particularly from Gaga, Driver, and Leto. The film is long but never feels too slow or to hurried through complex material; it's evenly constructed and a pleasure to watch unfold. Universal's Blu-ray is a bit thin on extras, but the video and audio presentations are nearly above reproach. Highly recommended.
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