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Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
When retired Military Police Officer Jack Reacher is arrested for a murder he did not commit, he finds himself in the middle of a deadly conspiracy full of dirty cops, shady businessmen and scheming politicians. With nothing but his wits, he must figure out what is happening in Margrave, Georgia. The first season of Reacher is based on the international bestseller, Killing Floor by Lee Child
Starring: Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald, Chris Webster (XIII), Bruce McGillAction | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.00:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.00:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
English, English SDH, French, German
Blu-ray Disc
Three-disc set (3 BDs)
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Voracious readers of the modern Action-Thriller genre need no introduction to Author Lee Child's iconic Jack Reacher, a character who debuted in 1997 in the novel The Killing Floor. Voracious moviegoers of the modern Action-Thriller genre likewise need no introduction to the character. In 2012, the team of Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie, who have found tremendous success collaborating in some of the most recent Mission: Impossible films, made Jack Reacher and in 2016 for a sequel, which McQuarrie produced with Cruise in the lead. Even with Cruise's star power, the franchise never really took off on the big screen as it did in the books, so here is a TV adaptation made for Amazon Prime that presents Reacher from the very beginning, offering an eight-episode season that is based on the character's debut novel.
Reacher's debut season debuts on Blu-ray with a high quality 1080p transfer. It's not a reach to label it as "excellent." The digitally sourced picture is crisp and clean, offering no significant encode flaws and little in the way of source eyesores, like noise. The picture is very efficient and handsome, featuring high yield textural output that captures facial definition with very natural and intimate detailing. The picture never relents in its clarity and excellence, even in lower light or in less than dynamic environments, like the prison in episode one. Still, the image squeezes out every last bit of detail that this resolution can muster, and even if the companion and concurrently released UHD manages to best it, Blu-ray only viewers are never going to feel in any way short-changed in this area. Likewise, Blu-ray only viewers will not feel like the color spectrum here is lacking. The colors are bold and satisfying, offering plenty of tonal intensity and vividness in output and excellent depth and temperature balance to boot. Primaries leap off the screen and various, less dynamic support colors delight. Blacks and whites are fine and skin tones look healthy and accurate. This is a fine Blu-ray release from Paramount.
This included DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack is plenty aggressive and very satisfying. Ranging from subtle atmospheric cues to full-on action extravaganzas, there's no mistaking that this track means business. All speakers are fully engaged to bring the full Reacher audio experience into the listening area for all its worth. The track is well engineered, taking full advantage of front width, surround wrap, and subwoofer output. Action scenes hit hard with plenty of depth and stage engagement, while on the other end light atmosphere surrounds the listener at all times. The prison sequences in the first episode offers some great examples. Fistfights offer plenty of bone-cracking crunch while blaring alarms and inmate din fill the stage with uncanny accuracy. Musical engagement is wide and substantially immersive while maintaining balance and clarity. Dialogue is clear and well prioritized from a stable front-center location.
This Blu-ray release of Reacher: Season One includes a couple of extras on disc three. No DVD or digital copies are included. This release does
ship with a non-embossed slipcover.
Reacher's first season is not one for the record books, but it's a rock-solid adaptation of a classic novel that has room to breathe at eight episodes. Its lead is terrific, and all of the support elements work well, too, making this one of the more faithful and enjoyable novel-to-TV adaptations out there. Paramount's three-disc Blu-ray set delivers very strong video and audio presentations. Supplements are on the lean side, but what's here is fine. Recommended.
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