Title: Great film, terrible disc
Product review: Michael Mann's first feature film is comes out fully realized: his style, his themes, his sensibility are all here. It's a superb film but the MGM disc, which came out in 1998, does not hold up on high-definition TVs. It shows up the poor resolution of the digital mastering, and it is non-anamorphic, which degrades the image further. Some scenes are terribly noisy, others simply unstable. This is a film that seriously needs a new, remastered edition.
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