Time to Kill, A (DVD)

There are already a great many reviews here providing a summary of the plot, opinions on acting,etc. Therefore, this review will only focus upon the actual quality of the transfer of 'A Time to Kill' to Blue Ray. However, I will say that this film is filled with a huge cast of major stars as well as glimpses of people at the very beginning of their acting careers long before they became stars...check out the whole 5 seconds of Olivier Spencer towards the end of the film. Keep in mind that the quality of what you see and hear also depends upon the quality of TV monitor you are using and its accompanying home theater processor and speakers. I have a pretty high end, esoteric system and am judging the Blu Ray off of that. VIDEO QUALITY.... The transfer to the Blu Ray is perfectly clean for this very powerful film. Tho' filmic in appearance with a slightly soft focus, there are no artifacts or dropouts anywhere. I noticed no appreciable grain or anything whatsoever distracting for the viewer to object to. Color grading is richly warm without being exaggerated and blacks, when called for, go deep past pluge without removing small details from the screen. Mbps rate generally stayed between the mid twenties and low thirties depending upon the amount of movement in the scene. A very fine video transfer. AUDIO QUALITY... The disc automatically starts when you press play and defaults to a lossy Dolby Digital audio. Press 'Pause' and get to the menu where you can set the audio to a lossless Dolby Tru HD 5.1 soundtrack. The opening scenes of the film utilize both the front and rear sound stages with some subtle foley fx discreetly going to the surrounds. After that, this film is largely dialogue based and so for almost the entire film it will be only the front stage that is used and even then, just your center channel. The surrounds are used primarily for the music soundtrack which is barely noticeable as the film relies upon the dialogue and power of the story rather than have the music lead the way to how you are to feel. The LFE channel contributes only slightly to ambience. Dialogue is clear and transparent throughout the film with no issues as all. EXTRAS.....Except for a trailer, there are none. NADA,ZIP,NOTHING,ZILCH, Whatever happened to all those wonderful extras that Blu Ray was to deliver? Despite all that, for the price of this disc, which is dirt cheap, you are getting a fine film with a really good transcode to Blu Ray. It is not a demo disc but, so what? Really glad to have this one in my collection. I do hope that this review, which focused solely upon the quality of the actual transfer to Blu Ray has been of some help to you in deciding your purchase. All of my reviews are of this nature and I hope they can be of HELP to you as well. Thanks for reading.

Great movie all the way through

What an amazing movie. It made me cry during that last summation. HUGE well know actors. I cant believe actor from Jack Bauer ( I think his last name is Sutherland) was playing such a horrible character lol....The good guy from 24 we all grew up with playing a racist was a something to get over.

John Grisham, the author of the novel that this film was adapted from, has said that, of all the movie adaptions of his books (seriously, more than one...he's doing well), this one is his favorite. As an avid John Grisham reader, I have to agree. For one thing, it stays pretty faithful to it's source material, which is generally a good thing for me as adaptions rarely come off well when they deviate too greatly. Matthew McConaughey and Kevin Spacey were two great advisaries on opposite sides of the courtroom during this high-profile murder trial...one fighting for his client, Samuel L. Jackson, who killed the men who had raped his daughter and now faces the Mississippi gas chamber for it, and the other seeks to further his political career. I would like to compliment the cast on the fact that, while their characters certainly had southern accents, something vital given the plot takes place entirely in Mississippi, no one overdid it on that front, an instant mood-killer for me. It was amusing to watch Sandra Bullock's character, a visitor from Massachusetts, try to fit in by pointing out things she knew about southern dialects and accents (like her first meeting with Mr. McConaughey.) Also, correct me if I'm wrong (I hope I'm not) but I don't think Mr. McConaughey was even once shirtless in this film...proves he can be a good actor while remaining dressed. I would have liked to have seen more of Ashley Judd, who played Mr. McConaughey's wife, but seeing as I've praised this film for it's faithfulness to the original novel and her character isn't in the novel that much because she's left town for her own and their daughter's well-being, I suppose I'll just deal with it. I really liked Charles S. Dutton as the sherriff of the Mississippi town where all this mayhem takes place...the man can do no wrong. I know that this film has sparked some contraversy for it's handling of murder and the punishments for it, but I've set all that aside and just enjoyed the film as a form of entertainment. Donald Sutherland's character does some the situation up nicely when he points out that there will be justice whether the case is won or lost...that's one heck of a system right there. I recommend you go out, get this film, and do the same. Enjoy.

tout est bien

Deux délinquants "blancs" violent, torturent et laissent pour morte une petite fille "noire" de dix ans. Alors qu'ils arrivent au tribunal, le père de la fillette (Samuel L. Jackson) les abat. "Non coupable" est le titre du roman de John Grisham dont le film est une adaptation. L'action se situe au Mississippi, état qui pratique encore aujourd'hui la peine de mort et dont près de la moitié de la population est évangéliste. Vu le contexte de l'époque, il y a de fortes chances pour que les présumés coupables ressortent libres du tribunal ou avec des peines mineures. C'est ce qui pousse le père à passer à l'acte. Le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est que le procès du père ne se passe pas dans la sérénité. Le climat, sur fond de racisme exacerbé, est particulièrement pesant. Le droit de tuer est un thriller juridique de haut niveau. On voit s'affronter un procureur carrieriste (Kevin Spacey) et un avocat de la défense (Matthew McConaughey) sans grands moyens aidé par une assistante bénévole (Sandra Bulock) qui amène un peu de fraicheur à l'ensemble.

Film bello ed emozionante, che tratta di un argomento scottante e ancora attuale, purtroppo. Dopo averlo cercato a lungo, finalmente sono riuscita a trovarlo ad un prezzo accessibile. Con un cast d'eccezione, vale la pena vederlo. Consigliatissimo.!

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merci beaucoup a tout l équipe Amazon