Product: xXx [VHS] (2002)
Rating: 3.0
XXX - Awesome movie, but not awesome DVD
The movie itself is awesome (I saw it four times in the theater) and the video transfer to dvd is good. The problem is the audio on the dvd. To me, the audio helped make this movie awesome. For some inexplicable reason, the audio track was remixed/rebalanced from the theatrical for the dvd. Some (all?) of the music tracks had their volume substantially lowered (Rammstein and Let the Bodies Hit the Floor were the two that I noticed). Some sound effects had their volume increased for no reason. My wife (who normally doesn't notice such details) even commented that the audio seemed different (in a bad way). I was really expecting a great dvd with great audio and I have no idea why the audio was switched from the perfect volume/balance in the theatrical release to the version on the dvd...