The element used for the transfer is very clean, although there is a bit of film grain that crops in a handful of shots. Flesh tones appear quite natural, while the rest of the colors display realistic saturated. There are no signs of chromatic distortion during the presentation. Blacks are accurate and the picture delivers a very good level of shadow detail. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack has a very effective mix that makes good use of all the discrete channels to create a 360-degree sound field.
Sound effects are well placed, and pan effectively through the channels.
Dialogue is always clean and fully intelligible. The bass channel lays a solid foundation, although the material doesn t provide any ground shaking moments. French, Spanish, Portuguese language soundtracks are also encoded onto the DVD, as are English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai subtitles. The basic interactive menus provide access the standard scene selection and set up features, plus a few nice supplements. There is an entertaining running audio commentary with director Brett Leonard, who imparts a lot of information about the production, as well as holding the actors in high regard.