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Presumed Innocent / Frantic (Thriller Double Feature) [Blu-ray] | ![Presumed Innocent / Frantic (Thriller Double Feature) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51isOjEywgL._SL160_.jpg) | Directors: Alan J. Pakula, Roman Polanski
Actors: Harrison Ford, Raul Julia, Greta Scacchi, Betty Buckley, Emmanuelle Seigner
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 30567
Format: Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Running Time: 247 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: WARBR118296
UPC: 883929106370
EAN: 0883929106370
ASIN: B0031RAP68
Release Date: February 23, 2010
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Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/23/2010 Run time: 226 minutes
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 Brilliant film finally in widescreen, but defective audio May 7, 2010
James Luckard (Los Angeles, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of my favorite films and the old American DVD was a disaster. It was fullscreen, and had worse image quality than my old VHS. The British DVD was at least widescreen, but was still fuzzy and had PAL speedup too. At last the film is in widescreen in America, but now there's another problem.
The audio track marked as "English" is actually an alternate "French" track, as presented on the UK DVD. All of the dialogue between English-speaking characters is still in English, but most of the little exchanges that Ford and Betty Buckley have with French characters are now in UNSUBTITLED FRENCH, clearly dubbed by Ford and Buckley themselves.
It's bizarre, especially since it's a huge plot point that Ford's character can't speak a word of French. Yet here he is now switching from French into and out of English in the same sentence.
I'm guessing this is some strange alternate version that was prepared for foreign markets, and nobody noticed when they made the Blu-Ray because the first few minutes consist of Ford and Buckley talking to each other, so they're still all in English.
A casual viewer may not notice this, they may just be a bit confused by the randomly appearing French dialogue. But anybody who knows the film well, as I do, having seen it far too many times, will not be a happy camper.
Hopefully Warner Bros will correct it, as they did so well with a similar audio defect on the Superman DVD, when an incorrect audio track was placed on the disc.
 FRANTIC in Widescreen: FINALLY! March 19, 2010
NotTheOnlyFan (Lost Without Complete O&A)
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
If you're a fan of this oft overlooked film, it's FINALLY in Widescreen. A comparison between this Blu-Ray version and the previous cheapie DVD is no contest. I've never seen the other feature and I don't even care: to finally get a solid print of this film is worth the Amazon price!
 Frantic/Presumed Innocent on Blu-ray... February 27, 2010
RaiderOfTheLostArk (Canada)
14 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'd rate Frantics Blu-ray Picture quality a 2.5 out of 5, and Presumed Innocent a 3 out of 5. Both prints are from true HD sources. These are not upscales. According to the back of the cover, the audio is "DTS-HD Master Audio: English 2.0".
Frantic's picture quality is not bad, it's just weak when compared to the Blu-ray standard. These are clearly older masters, and as such tend to show more grain. Though grain is supposed to be there as it is part of the film, so this is a good thing. Anyone looking for the quality of a Pixar Blu-ray will be disappointed. Frantic is a moody film with smoky bars and cloudy skies. No amount of restoration is going to make this look like Transformers. My biggest complaint is the appearance of digital noise. It tends to plague most solid colors. I do believe though that the Blu-ray is a very good representation of what the film should look like. The film hasn't been "faux" cleaned up in any way. I didn't spot any DNR (Digital Noise Reduction) or EE (Edge Enhancement) or boosted contrast. The picture is extremely film like. I believe this to be a very accurate representation of what the film looked like in theaters.
While I've been talking about the negatives, trust me, there are many positives. Every complaint I have is when I compare the quality to other Blu-rays (As I should) While Frantic's Blu-ray quality may only be a 2.5/5. For a DVD that's an 8/5. This is not the weakest Blu-ray (In terms of quality) that I own. And the weakest Blu-ray I own is better then the best DVD I own. The fact is, a weak Blu-ray trumps virtually all DVDs in all departments.
The original DVD was pan and scan, and the picture quality was a mess. Watching the Blu-ray compared to the DVD is night and day. The Blu-ray presents Frantic, for the first time on home video, in it's original aspect ratio. This little fact alone is worth it if you're a fan. While I may complain about digital noise, the Blu-ray shows an abundance of detail that was completely lost on the DVD. Everything shows an incredible improvement. Sharpness, detail, Black levels, color, and depth included. Lets get one thing straight: this is the best Frantic has ever looked on home video. This is not a slight improvement over the DVD, this is a huge improvement. I wish Warner would spend millions on a new 8k restoration. Looking at how they treated the original DVD, I'm personally shocked that we even got this Blu-ray. In a non-DNR'd grain-intact print no less.
What about Presumed Innocent? Well, oddly enough they're very similar. Presumed tends to show outdoor sunny days and well lit courtrooms. It's not as moody or dark as Frantic. But like Frantic, it has similar problems. The print is clearly old, there's digital noise here and there. Grain has been left intact thankfully. No signs of DNR or EE. The original DVD wasn't anamorphic either. It was merely letterboxed. The Blu-ray rectifies that problem. Honestly, most of the positives/negatives I had for Frantic can be applied to Presumed Innocent as well. It all has to do with the old prints.
To sum it up. These are Warner's budget Blu-rays. Compared to the average Blu-ray, these are weak. Though the picture is very accurate as to how the film should look, the simple fact is that they could look better. But a weak Blu-ray always trumps a great DVD. Both these films had crummy DVD releases, and the Blu-ray offers a substantial upgrade in all departments.
Both films are housed in a single disc Blu-ray case on one single sided duel layered disc. Each film is roughly 20 gigs of space. Zero special features, not even a trailer. Subtitles in French, Spanish, and English for the hearing impaired. Spanish dub is also included.
Good presentation of these two films on a combo Blu-Ray disc, but only on mark down at $10 or less. February 24, 2010
APC Reviews (USA)
24 out of 28 found this review helpful
This is a review of the Blu-Ray release of these films in one combo package, not a review of the films themselves, which one would assume are so well known that any Harrison Ford fan interested in them would know all about the stories and so forth already.
Both these films were very long in the tooth in their DVD releases, looking very dated on DVD with low res look transfers and mediocre sound.
The good news: both films have never looked better or sounded better than they do here.
The bad news: both films appear to be using be the same telecine transfers used for the prior DVDs, just cleaned up and given a vastly better presentation using the much higher bandwidth and better video codecs available for Blu-Ray.
Telecine quality and film to digital technology have come a long way in recent years, and both films retain a very DVD-ish 90s look that has more to do with the dated transfer than with the style of the films. Black crush abounds, especially in "Frantic", and detail is average at best. That said, the prior DVD editions of both films were so entirely awful that this has to count as a serious upgrade for both titles, even as it fails to exhibit the qualities one would hope for in more recently made transfers of catalog films.
It's not clear if the telecine sources employed were originally in 2k resolution or not. They may have been less than that, if they were in fact originally minted in the early days of DVD, now re-purposed for Blu-Ray.
The sound has been "upgraded" to DTS-MA, but only DTS-MA STEREO. So, you are getting, as with the video, a very upgraded and cleaner presentation of the same dated original soundtrack mix used for the older DVDs. All in all this is a good presentation of these two catalog films on a combo Blu-Ray disc, but only on mark down at $10 or less. Not worth more than that though.
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