Product: Point Break [VHS] (1991)
Rating: 3.0
Great flick - average DVD
I'm not going to pretend to be a movie reviewer for the New York Times or anything - I'm here to give people my impressions of the overall quality of the DVD release. If you didn't like the movie - you wouldn't buy it.The video transfer is quite nice. Even though the packaging states that it is an enhanced amporphic transfer, there are noticeable scenes where they simply trimmed the top and bottom off the shot to give it the letterbox effect. An example of this is when Utah is confronted by Bunker and those punks at the shower. After Bodi and Utah kick some booty, Pappas runs into them "accidentally" and quickly asks if they have seen someone with a car stereo. Normally, after this he continues walking and you can see Pappas wince like he almost blew Utah's cover. In the DVD, all you see is the top of Pappas's head beacuse of the letterbox effect. Now, I'm not sure if the entire movie was simply a cropped version of the pan-scan and enhanced - but some parts definately are. Don't get me wrong though - this does not ruin the movie!In terms of sound, they did quite a nice job. The DTS track goes very deep in the surfing scenes. Nothing bad to say - nothing astounding. Simply a good soundtrack.What bothered me a bit was the extremely poor quality menus and the lack of any "real" extras. This alone dropped the disc a star.Basically - if you liked the movie - you'll love the DVD. They did a good job compared to most DVD's out there!