HD Moods - Rebel (Blu-ray Review)

This is one 'Rebel' with a cause.

There’s always a certain amount of hype that attends even minor home video releases. You know the drill, it includes everything from pull quotes from some reviewer in Podunkville to breathless, purple prose adorning the keepcase insert. One quickly learns to take all of the public relations hoo-hah with a grain (or even a pillar) of salt. When every film or home video release is deemed “A masterpiece!” by at least one voice in the wilderness, the only thing that ultimately matters is how you ...

Video

Rebel, like its sibling Rise, is a spectacular feast for the eyes (perhaps even more so than Rise), with a sterling AVC encoded 1080i transfer (in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio). Despite some fairly heavy post-processing effects, and an interlaced image, there are no egregious artifacts to report. Instead we get a blisteringly sharp image that may not depend on the beauty of nature as much as Rise does, but which supplements the basic source material with a wealth of gorgeo...

Audio

It's rather odd that Topics, which is really jumping to the head of the line in this genre with these new AMOS releases, would have their Blu-rays default to a Dolby Digital 2.0 mix when the Blu's come with not one, but two, uncompressed lossless audio options, a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 and an LPCM 2.0. It's even stranger that the slipcase and insert hawk the Dolby option and not the lossless options. That said, these are extremely robust soundtracks, with some pretty overpowering low end, esp...

Supplements

No supplements are included on this budget priced disc....

Final Words

Rebel proves that Rise was no fluke, and that Topics has an extremely potent new brand with these AMOS releases. If you ever bought some of those old VHS tapes that featured compilations of the then-nascent CGI genre, you might have some idea of the fun and variety that Rebel has in store. Yes, this is niche marketing at its perhaps most obscure. But take a chance on these AMOS releases, and I doubt you'll be disappointed. Rebel comes very highly recommended.......

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HD Moods - Rebel (Blu-ray Review)