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Air Force One
Superbit™ DVD
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Starring: |
Harrison
Ford, Gary Oldman, Wendy Crewson, Paul Guilfoyle, William H. Macy,
Liesel Matthews, Dean Stockwell, and Glenn Close |
| Director: |
Wolfgang
Petersen |
| MPAA rating: |
R |
| Genre: |
Action
- Thriller
(warning: terrorism theme) |
| Studio: |
Columbia
Pictures & Beacon Pictures
(Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment) |
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Movie: A+ |
Video: A+ |
Audio: A+ |
Extras: N/A |
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Summary: Harrison Ford stars as the President of the
United States in "Air Force One". When a general of an
extremist militant group is captured and locked up, his men hijacks Air
Force One, the president's aircraft, and make their demand for the release
of the general. While the President's stance is "no negotiation
with terrorists", at what price will he uphold his principles?
What if his wife's and daughter's lives are on the line? This is a
superb and intense thriller that should not be missed. As a Superbit
DVD, "Air Force One" exhibits a high degree of picture and
audio excellence. It's a top notch DVD experience for a top notch
film.
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The Story
Harrison Ford stars as the President of the United
States. When a general of an extremist Russian neo-nationalist group is captured and
locked up, his devoted followers hijack Air Force One, the president's
Boeing 747 serving as an airliner transport and as a military command and
control aircraft, and make their demand for the release of the
general. The President is returning from his trip to Russia, where he
just publicly stated his stance of "no negotiation with
terrorists" to the world. But with hijackers controlling the fate
of Air Force One and those on board, at what price will the President uphold
his principles? What if his wife's and daughter's lives are on the
line? Will he give in and allow terrorists to step all over him?
This is a superb and intense thriller that should not be
missed. The performances are solid and gripping from this all-star
cast. Harrison Ford delivers one of his finer performances. I
actually enjoyed this movie more the second time around. It's quite a
thrill ride, even for the second time.
The Extras
Because this is a Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Superbit™ DVD series, there are no bonus features.
Video & Audio
The
"Air Force One" Superbit DVD looks really good, though we do
not have its original DVD release for comparison. But compared to
any DVD, the anamorphic
widescreen picture seems more detailed than usual and the colors seem much
more saturated and more life-like. All scenes during the entire movie
seems consistently well composed with increased detail and higher color
fidelity, which is the direct result of the video bit rate
consistently running at least 4.5 Mbps.
The DTS
5.1 soundtrack sounds terrific, as good as any DTS
soundtrack we've heard on other non-Superbit DVD releases. A Dolby
Digital 5.1 soundtrack is also available for those of you who do not
have a DTS compatible home theater system. Both 5.1-channel mixes are
well balanced, with aggressive use of the surround sound channels. The
dialog comes across clearly.
Conclusion
"Air
Force One" as a movie is already quite a thrill ride, and this
Superbit DVD version takes it to the limit. I was completely
spell-binded by the movie and the picture and sound quality of its Superbit release.
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Associated equipment used in evaluation: Sony
DVP-S7700 reference DVD player, Sony
KP-61V45 61" rear projection TV (4:3 screen aspect ratio), Sony ES STR-V444ES A/V receiver, four
B&W CDM 9NTs as left/right main speakers
and left/right surrounds, B&W CDM CNT center channel speaker, Monster Cable M-series S-Video cable MSV-500, Monster
Cable Interlink LightSpeed 100 (Toslink) optical cable, Monster Cable
Interlink 400 MKII interconnects, Monster Cable
Original speaker cables in bi-wire configuration with Monster Cable twist-on gold-plated banana plug
connectors, Lovan Sovereign T HiFi audio
rack, and Sony MDR-V600 studio monitor headphones. Our home theater equipment was calibrated
with the Video
Essentials DVD.
Be sure to check out our Top 10 DVDs of the year
2001 and our list of this year's Oscar winners on DVD.
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