10.5: Apocalypse Blu-ray

10.5: Apocalypse

 (TV) (2006)

Drama



Another massive 10.5 quake tears apart the West Coast, threatening to turn the American landscape into a hellish wasteland. Seismologist Samantha Hill sees an even greater threat: an ever-widening fault line that's heading straight for the country's two largest nuclear reactors. If a meltdown occurs, millions will die. Samantha and the American president agree only one man can help them-the scientist who predicted this terrifying natural disaster years before- Samantha's own father, Dr. Earl Hill, now counted as a possible casualty of a massive Las Vegas quake. Together with a crack rescue team including Brad and Will, Samantha must find her father and stop the fault from slicing uncontrollably toward millions of people and the ultimate nuclear apocalypse.

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Starring: Kim Delaney, Dean Cain, David Cubitt, Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Carlos Bernard
Director: John J. Lafia

10.5: Apocalypse Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


10.5 Apocalypse features a ho-hum 1080p, 1.78:1-framed video presentation. Before getting into the specifics, it's worth noting that the film makes almost incessant use of jerky camera movements and fast zooms in and out that may bring about the onset of a headache rather than adding the desired effect to the film, which seems to be to add some immediacy and a sense of impending danger to the experience. It's a decent idea in theory, but it is used far too much here; the film is also too quickly edited to really get a feel for what's going on in most any scene. As far as the actual transfer goes, it isn't all that bad for what it is. Fine detail is moderate, particularly in close-up shots of faces. Still, the various weaknesses reveal themselves soon enough; clumps of trees and foliage look completely undefined, at times barely recognizable as to what they are from a distance. The transfer is noisy and bland as a rule. Compression artifacts appear here and there, and a smidgen of edge enhancement is noticeable in some shots. Dark scenes don't sport nice inky blacks; they're mostly all a shade of gray. Overall, the presentation is easily mistaken for what was probably seen during its original airing.

10.5: Apocalypse Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


10.5 Apocalypse won't ravage the eardrums thanks to its bland two-channel PCM presentation. The opening destruction of Hollywood fails to really impress. It's loud and jumbled, not all that well defined, but it gets the job done, and is decent for a made for TV movie. Dialogue reproduction is fine. Sound effects don't travel all that well across the front; most stay focused in the center with the occasional ambient support from the front sides. The action sequences aren't all that impressive. Whether hearing a helicopter crash, a building collapse, a tremor shaking Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam overflowing, or any of the disasters in the film, the sound is sufficient but far from exhilarating. Of course, anything with this production that may be described as "sufficient" is a win.

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