Film Reviews by themadpanner

The most ridiculous ending of all time, without spoilers what can I say. I watched the uncut version on the disc and couldn’t believe what I was seeing,  really 75 minutes would be enough for the script but it only takes 36 minutes to get to the top of the tower, it’s a painful experience for the rest of it. 

When playing the main movie what you hear is silence, total silence, the reason for this is that there is no audio auto select function, so you have to go to the audio menu (in the case of Panasonic players the OPTION button) and scroll thru the audio options until you here sound. The 2 other programs on the disc are fine, no problems. The movie itself is not bad for the 70s but the 2 other documentary’s are very interesting with a view to those way back years. 

This is one of the best movies of the decade, a sensational, shocking and hard hitting masterpiece. You will not remember this, and a excellent French DTS 5.1 sound mix. A pity it’s not Dolby Atmos as a full aural mix which would have made it even better. The music score, recorded in London fits the picture perfectly. A 10 star movie. 

Already owning the 2k Benchmark disc I was interested to view this 4k one but as previously said the instructions need to be included. I was able to sort it as I have the 2k instructions and the filters. It’s great to be able to rent this but without these it really is pointless.

This could be a cracking movie but because of very slow and dragged out editing it becomes almost boring. A good idea. let down I suspect by a group of exec producers and many repeated names on the credits that produce what to me looks like a committee edit. 105 minutes is too long and a recut to 85 - 90 minutes max would produce a cracking little slasher movie.