It may sound preposterous, but the idea actually plays well enough during the course of the movie. The investigation appears routine, until a couple of anomalies are discovered amongst the wreckage. First, all of the digital watches that survived the crash are somehow running backwards. Second, Smith finds a device of unknown origin inside a mangled piece of metal. Daniel J. Travanti portrays Dr. Arnold Mayer, a noted physicist who comes to suspect the true nature of what is occurring on the airliners before they cash.
Colors are nicely saturated and the flesh tones appear fairly natural.
There are moments in the film in which some of the hotter hues could have been problematic, but the DVD handles them without any evidence of chroma noise or distortion. Digital compression artifacts remained in check throughout the presentation. The Dolby Digital soundtrack decodes to standard Dolby Surround. Since I've been spoiled by Dolby Digital 5.1, standard surround tracks tend to sound subdued to me. However, the track offers some channel separation across the front soundstage, and fairly natural dialogue reproduction.