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If you haven't heard about this one yet in the HT community, stop and pay attention.
The film itself is a check-your-brain-at-the-door, guys' night out, shoot 'em up action film. Keanu Reeves actually does a very decent job as the title character super killer, maybe the most convincing of his career in such a role. The movie is arguable in its story quality, but the action is pretty good. Actually some very good gunfighting action.
But this movie is a MUST WATCH in a good home theater for its audio track. One of the few films so far that has been encoded with Dolby Atmos on Blu Ray, and the consensus is that it's the best of the bunch. For those unaware, Dolby Atmos is a new object-based sound encoding that precisely places a sound at the location the sound engineer wants it to be in your theater. Not channel-based. It's embedded into the Dolby TruHD track, so those with new Dolby Atmos receivers can take advantage of the encoding, while those still without Atmos can still get lossless HD audio. Dolby Atmos can add extra speakers, including extra width channels, height channels, and ceiling speakers, as well as up-firing Dolby Atmos-designed speakers that reflect sound off the ceiling.
I just got a new Atmos processor (Marantz AV7702) but haven't added ceiling speakers yet, so I'm still running a 7.1 setup, and not yet taking advantage of the 3D soundfield that Atmos can create. But even still, the sound was EXCEPTIONAL. I have never heard such a detailed and precised sounding movie before--anywhere. It's like the movie was made to show off Atmos, with the rain, big block muscle cars, ricochet gunshots, breaking glass, thumping music and LFE effects, etc.
I have great sounding demo material for my theater that show off different things like surround effects and super low, strong bass. But this movie by far is now my #1 demo material for sound clarity and precision, even before I expand it into 3D sound with Atmos ceiling speakers.
You may nor may not like the movie itself. Some of the violence is rather strong. But I think everyone needs to try this one out for the sound, regardless of what setup and equipment you actually have. I think you'll thank me for demo-ing the sound. :35: out of :5: for the movie itself. No question, the sound quality and features on this one are a solid :5: out of :5: I rented from Blockbuster, but will be purchasing this one right away.
The film itself is a check-your-brain-at-the-door, guys' night out, shoot 'em up action film. Keanu Reeves actually does a very decent job as the title character super killer, maybe the most convincing of his career in such a role. The movie is arguable in its story quality, but the action is pretty good. Actually some very good gunfighting action.
But this movie is a MUST WATCH in a good home theater for its audio track. One of the few films so far that has been encoded with Dolby Atmos on Blu Ray, and the consensus is that it's the best of the bunch. For those unaware, Dolby Atmos is a new object-based sound encoding that precisely places a sound at the location the sound engineer wants it to be in your theater. Not channel-based. It's embedded into the Dolby TruHD track, so those with new Dolby Atmos receivers can take advantage of the encoding, while those still without Atmos can still get lossless HD audio. Dolby Atmos can add extra speakers, including extra width channels, height channels, and ceiling speakers, as well as up-firing Dolby Atmos-designed speakers that reflect sound off the ceiling.
I just got a new Atmos processor (Marantz AV7702) but haven't added ceiling speakers yet, so I'm still running a 7.1 setup, and not yet taking advantage of the 3D soundfield that Atmos can create. But even still, the sound was EXCEPTIONAL. I have never heard such a detailed and precised sounding movie before--anywhere. It's like the movie was made to show off Atmos, with the rain, big block muscle cars, ricochet gunshots, breaking glass, thumping music and LFE effects, etc.
I have great sounding demo material for my theater that show off different things like surround effects and super low, strong bass. But this movie by far is now my #1 demo material for sound clarity and precision, even before I expand it into 3D sound with Atmos ceiling speakers.
You may nor may not like the movie itself. Some of the violence is rather strong. But I think everyone needs to try this one out for the sound, regardless of what setup and equipment you actually have. I think you'll thank me for demo-ing the sound. :35: out of :5: for the movie itself. No question, the sound quality and features on this one are a solid :5: out of :5: I rented from Blockbuster, but will be purchasing this one right away.
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