Yuk! Don't buy and rent something else if possible. Definitely beyond Dead!

Rating: 5/10 (27 February 2001)

OK, Ok, ok...so my five year old kind of enjoyed it. But that's about the mentality of where the script, plot, special effects, and acting performances are at. The DVD quality was even more disappointing. Coming off of Heat and Dark City, each with the highest quality video and sound I've seen and heard on a DVD (thanks to IMDb reviewers' comments), this DVD was close to very poor. Focus seems to be a problem. Many scenes loose clarity in background objects that blur and even with a calibrated high-resolution TV, colors were not crisp or fully displayed, remaining drab and subdued. Sure, it is a dark movie, but either the proper equipment wasn't used or more likely it was just slapped together quickly to catch the dollar wave and no technical improvements were made in the production of the disk. Even the dolby was poorly recorded. Couldn't tell it was 5.1 at all. It sounded like the recordings were never mixed and improved in making the DVD sound as it was comes almost solely from front left, right and center speakers with a faint buzz in the rear speakers barely audible in some action scenes. Beats me why this is rated so high. I'm being generous with the 5.