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One of the first titles released on Blu-ray, x Xx's 2.40:1, 1080p high definition transfer is a mess.
This is without a doubt the most disappointed I've been with a Blu-ray so far. Black levels are terrible, any segment of the picture that should be dark is far too bright, fine detail is absent, and every edge is soft and lacks definition.
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While Speed may have helped usher in the era of adrenaline-based, extreme-sports inspired action heroes, x Xx actually makes the action hero himself an adrenaline junkie, extreme sports athlete.
Still, the Blu-ray is only slightly better, just a bit sharper and cleaner with better color reproduction, but not much more in the way of detail.
I expected much better, but chock this one up to the growing pains of a new format that less than two years after its launch is producing truly breathtaking imagery that puts anything I've ever seen at home to shame.
Although mostly flat, the image does at times have a fair amount of three-dimensionality, but these instances are too few and far between to really count for much.
A few scenes, notably those that are very brightly lit, such as a sequence on a snowy mountainside near the end of the move, look alright, about what we would expect from an average high-definition image.
Detail and sharpness are disappointing in many shots. Trees, for example, look like a glob of a green-colored mass smeared onto the film.The heavy metal tune "Feuer Frei" heard at the beginning of the movie courtesy of the band Rammstein attacks the listener through every speaker.The scene is an awesome sonic experience, and even as someone who doesn't generally enjoy this kind of music, I found myself feeling the urge to head bang, so loud and crystal-clear was it that I felt like part of the crowd and lost in the moment.Faades and distance shots of buildings lack texture and detail, looking flat and dull instead.Blacks remain disappointing, although sometimes they rise to the level of respectable, such as during a nighttime battle in chapter four.
