5.5 | / 10 |
Users | 4.5 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
A smooth-talking Texan sexy private eye is assigned by a cryptic Contessa with the task of investigating who is behind the hi-tech computer technology leaks to the Russians.
Starring: Darby Hinton, Sybil Danning, Art Metrano, Shelley Taylor Morgan, Brett Baxter ClarkErotic | 100% |
Thriller | Insignificant |
Comedy | Insignificant |
Adventure | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Region free
Movie | 1.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 3.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Malibu Express is exactly the kind of movie for which its Writer/Director Andy Sidaris is known (he also wrote and directed Hard Ticket to Hawaii, also available on Blu-ray from Mill Creek). The movie is light on plot, low on quality acting, high on T&A, and tries to fold in as much budget-crafted action as it can along the way. Malibu Express certainly keeps its priorities in order, emphasizing bare breasts and soft core sex scenes, which appear in copious amounts, sometimes tangentially related to the plot, sometimes just thrown in to extend the runtime, and to extend anything else, for that matter. It's a crude picture but generally well made from a technical perspective. It plays up its point and doesn't disguise itself as anything other than sleazy exploitation that doesn't go all the way.
Malibu Express' 1080p Blu-ray presentation is sourced from a new 4K restoration. The image is generally very nice, with minimal print damage or encoding artifacts getting in the way beyond some distracting wobble that makes its appearance with some regularity in a number of shots and scenes. The image is densely grainy, a snowy, swarming field that is nicely complimentary of the image's textural qualities. Those details are not stellar, but they are firm and steady, revealing skin, clothes, and environments with sufficient clarity and stability. Colors are firm and nicely saturated, reds maybe a little overblown, but the palette is steady without much evidence of fading. Black levels, however, do appear raised and flat with mild purple push at times. Skin tones appear accurate. For what was a low budget exploitation film, the end result is certainly not at all bad. It's one of Mill Creek's better releases.
Malibu Express features a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 lossless soundtrack. The track is flat and bland, not horrifically so but there's little range, zip, or zest to be heard. The front speakers carry the material with a fair sense of place and purpose, stretching a bit to better incorporate effects and music but not so wide and full as to make the speakers disappear. Basic clarity rarely ascends beyond foundational needs, whether considering either of the aforementioned components. Dialogue lacks expert clarity but plays with enough essential definition to never be problematic. It images well enough towards a phantom front-center channel location.
Malibu Express contains an audio commentary track, an intro, a lengthy vintage feature, and an assortment of trailers. A Mill Creek digital
copy code is included with
purchase. This release does not appear to ship with a slipcover.
Malibu Express is soft core pornography surrounded by a loose plot and a little action. It's a bad movie, obviously, but it was made to entertain and to titillate, which it does well enough. Mill Creek's newly restored transfer from a 4K scan looks fairly good. The sound is nothing much of note. The studio has included a handful of extras. Worth a look for fans of the film and the soft core genre.
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