Last Holiday Blu-ray

Last Holiday

 (2006)

Adventure | Comedy | Drama



It's advice to follow for shy New Orleans cookware salesclerk Georgia Byrd (Oscar® nominee Queen Latifah) when she's led the believe that she has less than a month to live. It's time to give her life a serious makeover, so Georgia jets off on a dream vacation to live like there's no tomorrow! Enjoy hearty laughs and rollicking comedic misadventures when Georgia shakes up a glamorous European resort spa while enthusiastically embracing a new look...new moves...and a new attitude! LL Cool J is the handsome suitor back home who's not about to let Georgia slip away. Timothy Hutton, Gerard Depardieu, Alicia Witt and Giancarlo Esposito also star in this comedy hit that makes the good times last forever.

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Starring: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt
Director: Wayne Wang

Last Holiday Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


Last Holiday travels to Blu-ray with a mostly pleasant 1080p, 2.35:1-framed transfer. The video transfer is extremely film-like, aided by a generally subtle but sometimes more noticeable layer of grain, and the transfer oftentimes borders very closely to reference-grade quality. The colors exhibit just a bit of over-saturation, but most appear lifelike and very pleasing to the eye, with just a slight push towards red. Detail is generally superb. Streets feature palpable texture and depth in the concrete, clothing reveals all stitches and nuances in close-up shots, and faces also exhibit the finest of details. A tan colored sweater Georgia wears the first time audiences see her at work shows off all the weaves and lines with excellent results. Like the image as a whole, flesh tones veer towards a reddish-pink hue. However, blacks are nice and deep. On the down side, backgrounds appear ever so soft, and there is the occasional white speckle over the print. While not a perfect transfer, this Blu-ray edition of Last Holiday boasts a very respectable image that should please fans, and serves as the best technical aspect of the disc.

Last Holiday Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


Last Holiday features a rather unremarkable Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack. The soundtrack never features anything in the way of a full, immersive sound field. The movie's opening choir practice session shows just that, the sound playing somewhat nicely if not a bit underwhelming from the front but offering virtually nothing from the back channels. Likewise, the remainder of the track retains a front-heavy, almost lifeless sound, playing cold and detached, certainly not matching the warmth of the story. A shopping montage in chapter seven features a pop song that plays out as flat and dull, which unfortunately is the order of the day when it comes to this disc. The movie is primarily dialogue-driven, and this aspect of the disc is flawless, with no discernible hiccups to hinder the presentation. On the whole, this soundtrack is alright, but never all that impressive.

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