6.9 | / 10 |
Users | 5.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.9 |
When her son is kidnapped, the inventor of a time machine teams up with multiple versions of her future self to rescue him.
Starring: Mi Yang, Wallace Huo, Shih-Chieh King, Chang Liu, Kim Hee-wonForeign | 100% |
Action | 75% |
Thriller | 52% |
Sci-Fi | 43% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Mandarin: DTS:X
Mandarin: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1
Mandarin: Dolby Digital 2.0
English SDH, Mandarin (Simplified)
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Films or television shows about time travel are almost inherently convoluted, if often kind of crazy fun, as can be gleaned in everything from the Back to the Future: 25th Anniversary Trilogy to Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: Season One. Reset desperately wants to be another insanely labyrinthine trip through an actually fairly narrow window of time, but it rather oddly mixes time travel with parallel universes, which any science fiction nerd worth their salt will tell you are not synonymous. It’s a completely peculiar gambit, and one which is technically unnecessary, as both of the above linked entries have proven, since both Back to the Future and Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency feature the same characters appearing in various “forms” from different timelines together, at least in passing. But one of Reset’s fundamentally confusing aspects is that its whole conceit is based on the premise that time travel is only available courtesy of hopping to an alternative universe which is, for all intents and purposes anyway, exactly the same as the one the time traveler is traveling from. Got that? If not, it doesn’t really matter, since this overamped production is probably too ridiculously melodramatic too much of the time to ever really achieve much more than a general sense of frenzy. The film begins with a very brief text crawl describing a high tech competition between two companies which have been working on wormholes to parallel universes with the attendant ability to travel back in time a couple of hours or so in the process, to which some enquiring minds may respond: why? Well, there wouldn’t be a film otherwise, obviously, since focal character Xian Tan (Yang Mi) has to keep going back just an hour and a half or so to attempt to rescue her darling son Dou Dou (Hummer Zhang), who is kidnapped by the nefarious Tsui Hu (Wallace Huo), who has been tasked by Xian’s competitor with getting all of Xian’s research.
Reset is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of Well Go USA with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer in 2.39:1. As kind of oddly seems to be the case with some Well Go USA releases, there's visible banding in both the Well Go USA masthead, as well as several other production logos that play before the actual film, but the good news is once the actual presentation starts, there are no further noticeable instances. This is an appealingly sharp and well detailed presentation the majority of the time, with the only deficits in fine detail accruing due to some fairly heavy grading (once again toward the inevitable blue), as well as some shots that are dimly lit or bathed in the haze of smoke from explosions or, in a couple of cases, where characters are traveling through a rather dark wormhole. Some other grading strategies, as in a kind of warmly honey colored flashback Xia Tian experiencing thinking of her son, look great, with excellent detail levels across the board. The CGI in this film is generally quite sharp looking.
Reset features a rather impressive DTS:X mix in the original Mandarin (though a few lines are actually spoken in English). Huge washes of both synth pad sounding score choices as well as ominous LFE regularly spread through the surrounds, and in a couple of cases sound like they're wafting overhead. The film has a glut of action adventure set pieces, including explosions, car crashes, car chases and various battles and skirmishes, all of which offer a nonstop array of great sounding effects that are often placed with pinpoint accuracy to create a very lively and accurate seeming soundfield. Dialogue is cleanly rendered and often appealingly directional in this very enjoyable track.
Reset is one of those releases where a pretty appealing technical presentation can't quite make up for a story that is largely a shambles. Those who can let a number of head scratching plot dynamics just unfold without getting too worked up over them may well like this frenetic attempt to reinvent the time travel thriller, but those who require their science fiction outings like this to actually make any sense may be woefully disappointed.
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