The Jackal [Blu-ray]

Great entertainment

I loved this cat and mouse movie. Great cast!

If you are buying this you are concerned with the picture and audio quality, which were fine.

This movie had been produced sometime ago and yet it still has legs and is an exciting and tense worthwhile film. I don't provide opinions on the movies, the acting or give summaries of each film. That has been done many times elsewhere so I just provide information regarding the transfer of each of these film's from Standard Definition to this current Blu Ray.I do have the Standard Def version so, while this is not a direct comparison between the two formats, I can refer to it. The video transfer to Blu Ray is really superb with excellent contrast and coloration, little to no grain and no artifacts of any kind. It seemed to me, early in the film, the Richard Gere's skin tone was a touch too tan for a man who had been in prison for a long time but other than that, this movie looks just beautiful. The mbps rate ranges between the mid 20's and mid 30's which is a pretty decent bit rate. The video transfer is definitely the star of this BluRay combo.The Standard Def DVD, which I did not watch as I already had my original copy on a separate DVD, is, I think, unfortunately on the opposite side of the BluRay copy. This is not a 2 disc set. I don't know if having it on the other side is a problem. I can attest that the BluRay side is clearly, very good.The extras are on the Standard Def side which has the same static menu as the original release did. It contains commentary and a making of documentary. Typical stuff. No deleted scenes which I often enjoy. The digital copy is a download that you do once you enter the code. I didn't bother with this.The audio transfer to the Blu Ray DVD was really quite good though not a disc to really show off what your surrounds can pump up. The lossless DTS HD MA 5.1 audio is clean and crystal clear. The surrounds are used primarily for ambience either in action or score but there is really very little use, if any, for discreet directionality of front and rear channels. Thus, I lowered the star rating to 4. Most of the audio will be coming from your center channel speaker but the lossless audio does tend to envelope you in the action and that is a good thing.The price of the BluRay is certainly a good one and this is a movie that would be worth upgrading to BluRay should you already have it on Standard Def. Wish I could say that about all the movies I have upgraded to.All my movie reviews are of this nature and focus only on the quality of the transfer to BluRay so check them and see if they are of help as well.Hopefully, this review has been of some help to you in determining your purchase, hope I am on the correct path with a review of the transfer quality as opposed to providing plot summaries.Thanks

A remake, yes but so improved. The shadowy world of the top class assassin comes forth. A great tribute to Bruce Willis, too.

Good price, dvd works fine, good action and suspense movie.

This movie has a star studded cast and captures Bruce Willis in his prime. Jack Black has a cool part in this film as well.

Bruce Willis as villain was a nice change. Sydney Poitier was solid, as usual.But climax scene was too formulaic, we knew the target would be saved.All that slow motion was not backed up by an impressive final denouement. The hero got the villain too easy. A real villain would not have given up the hostage until he secured transport out of there, especially as he was hurt and couldn't run any more. Instead, he lets the hostage go to play mano a mano with the hero.And that last second rescue by the hero's ex was not credible by any means.