Title: Quarantine
BD-50 Dual-Layer Disc
Video: 1080p/AVC MPEG-4
Audio: 5.1 Dolby TrueHD
Aspect Ratio: 1:85:1
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese
Run time: 89 minutes
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Video
Rating: R
Player used for review: LG BH200
My take: (the breakdown)
Quarantine is probably about the 50th movie with this type of storyline and these types of movies are getting extremely old and weary in my opinion. The story focuses on a reporter and her camera man as they follow a local L.A. Fire Department unit to a medical call. Once they find an old woman who looks to have gone mad everything just kind of goes out of control and from that point all of the characters are complete morons. For some odd reason these generic slasher horror films always have extremely dumb characters. You know someone is about to be an idiot when they say something like "I'm gonna check this out." or "I gotta take a look behind this door." I say avoid this poor excuse for a movie unless you're just bored and like mindless movies.
The quality of this transfer is certainly debatable. There is no grain whatsoever because this was apparently done on video rather than film. We get the shaky camera movements as with Cloverfield and Blair Witch Project, but this one is not quite as bad. Most of the movie is extremely dark, but most of the blacks are completely resolved. Flesh tones (what we see) seem to be accurate and fine detail is decent at times and at other times rather soft. Sony's effort is decent, but I wouldn't commend then on this one.
The audio is actually quite well done. Dialogue is clear and pronounced even though the acting is questionable. The sub gets some work when there's some action, but stays dormant for the majority of the film. There's a lot of helicopter blade effects in the surrounds and some other discrete effects. Definitely better than the video quality Sony.
Ok the supplemental package really annoys me. Not only is it extremely light, but it's in 480. Why does Sony need to waste money on a BD 50 disc for a 89 minute movie that contains 21 minutes worth of extra features and a commentary? First it was Warner using BD 25s when they should have used 50s, but now we have Sony using a 50 when they should have used a 25.
Movie: 5/10
VQ: 8/10
AQ: 9/10
Supplements: 3/10
Final word: One to Avoid
As always thanks for reading folks.