The theme brought out so well in the book is about lost innocence and the slow dissolution of a culture gone by the wayside. Thornton s majestic pans of gorgeous New Mexico locations cannot obscure the flaws in editing or the notoriously slow pace of the film. It s a single-sided, single layered disk containing both an English Dolby Digital 5.1 and an English Dolby 2.0 Surround soundtrack. The video quality on this disk is very good and the colorful cinematography shows up quite nicely. There are wide-ranging hues used here, chiefly of the earth tone family representing browns, greens and tans.
Color saturation is very good and the transitions are smooth with adequate detail.
Flesh tones may appear a bit on the orange side, but that s due primarily to an overuse of makeup in my opinion. Black level is also good and a high degree of shadow detail is evident. The print itself is blemish-free as would be expected. There are a couple of dots here and there, but nothing more than you d see in the theater. Compression artifacts were also few and far between although I could detect some edge enhancement along the mountain ranges as they contrasted with the background sky.