The only minor flaw in the picture is a tiny bit of film grain that occasionally makes an appearance. However, considering the lighting set ups required to recreate the 18 th century, the mild grain is easily overlooked. There are almost no signs of digital compression artifacts on this dual layered DVD, which has been authored to maintain the beauty of every moment of this 165-minute film. This mix is enveloping and involving from the opening logos until the final credits roll. The soundtrack has a subtle and sometimes sublime sense of presence that nicely contrasts to precise and explosive direction effects that are aggressively deployed during the battle sequences.
Dialogue is fully intelligible, and the actors voices maintain a realistic timbre.
The bass channel is solid throughout and it provides the percussive and concussive force required to make every moment come alive. Additionally, the track has marvelous frequency response that reproduces John Williams score with a full, rich musical quality. A French Dolby Surround soundtrack has also been encoded onto the DVD, along with English and French subtitles. Full motion video, animation and sound are utilized to enhance the DVD interactive menus. Through the menus, one has access to the standard scene selection and set up features, as well as the DVD s nice complement of supplemental features.