Sound quality lets it down

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2019)

Admittedly I saw this on the Sony Movie Channel and not in the cinema. So perhaps other releases didn't have the same sound problem. But what I saw (and struggled to hear clearly) was flawed. The whispered performances detracted from the overall experience. Do actors *really* have to whisper and mumble their way through the script? Listen carefully and you can hear the dubbing mixer's "noise gates" working flat out. Whenever anyone speaks in the intimate whispered passages, you can hear the background mush behind their tiny voice, which has to be cranked up to maximum in order to hear what they're saying. Then the moment they stop speaking, the noise gate cuts in and the background goes eerily silent until the next line starts. Distracting at best. Otherwise, a great film.