Dialog is very clean and intelligible, never sounding strained or distorted. The front soundstage images wide with excellent directionality and imaging between channels. Surrounds, which aren't necessarily used constantly, come into play when appropriate and mesh well with the front channels. The .1 LFE also gets in on the fun with explosive passages that really shook the room. Ever since he recorded his first audio commentary track for The Devil's Advocate DVD special edition, director Taylor Hackford has really embraced the format and recorded screen-specific audio commentaries for most of his films.
Proof Of Life is no exception and although it is good, it is really frustrating much of the time.
Most of Hackford's track plays like simple narration, with the director verbalizing what is happening onscreen and little else. The rub comes when in the middle of all this vapid talk, a real golden nugget of information is passed along. This happens throughout and just when I would be about to give up on the track as nothing was happening, Hackford would give me something that I found so interesting it would cause me to sit and continue to listen, bored senseless, until the next nugget came up. Hosted by David Caruso, this making of seems to have rounded up every shot from the film that contained guns or explosions. There is a bit of stuff a little further on in the featurette that focuses on the subject matter of kidnapping and ransom professionals, but most of it is pretty basic info.