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The Man in the Iron Mask(1998)
It is a time of both splendor and despair. France's self-serving King Louis XIV enjoys the riches of the world while his people die of starvation. Believing that he is all-powerful, Louis fears no one--except the one person who could bring his reign to an end: the man in he imprisoned for eternity behind a mask of iron. And when Louis' selfish excesses go too far, retired Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis vow to free the mysterious prisoner who may be France's only hope for survival. Only one question remains: will their old comrade, the legendary D'Artagnan, help them--or destroy them? For more about The Man in the Iron Mask and The Man in the Iron Mask Blu-ray release, see The Man in the Iron Mask Blu-ray Review Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jeremy Irons, John Malkovich, Gérard Depardieu, Gabriel Byrne, Anne Parillaud Director: Randall Wallace » See full cast & crew The Man in the Iron Mask Blu-ray, Video QualityMGM brings The Man in the Iron Mask to Blu-ray with a 1080p/AVC-encoded transfer that's hit or miss. The first thing you'll notice is that colors during the outdoor daylight scenes seem oversaturated and overexposed. Take, for instance, the "pig chase" sequence. Primaries, especially reds, are much too hot here, and skin tones come across as ruddy and pinkish as the pig itself. Thankfully, much of the film takes place indoors, where the simulated candlelight is less harsh on the eye and colors look much more natural, allowing the vividly hued costumes to stand out without feeling blown out. Black levels are also slightly variable, crushing detail and looking too dark during many of the scenes in the Bastille, but otherwise staying spot-on and carving out a decent sense of contrast. The film is most consistent when it comes to overall clarity. Yes, there's some occasional softness, but most of the time the picture is nicely resolved, allowing us to see all the intricacies of the costume work and set design. Close-ups display plenty of fine detail, from the texture of D'Artagnan's skin to the roughly hewn surface of the iron mask. Grain is apparent in the image, but there are times when textures soften and faces take on a slightly waxy look, suggesting the use of DNR. That said, no one has gone overboard with the noise reduction, and the picture still looks appropriately filmic. As for compression, the film fits with plenty of room on a 50 GB disc, and aside from sporadic noise during the darker scenes, I didn't spot any other artifacts or anomalies. (Although there were two or three instances where I noticed some minor telecine wobble.) My biggest qualm here is with the color reproduction, though the overexposure looks as if it happened in-camera and not during post-production color tweaking. The Man in the Iron Mask Blu-ray, Audio QualityThe Man in the Iron Mask swashbuckles onto Blu-ray with a strong but somewhat graceless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround track. Dynamics are tight and punchy, with nice low-end rumble during some of the explosive action moments and razor-sharp clarity in more delicate sounds, like the metal-on-metal schwing of a sword being unsheathed. The strings in Nick Glennie-Smith's score are rich and sweeping, and the music in general carries more than enough heft, blasting with spread and detail from the front speakers as well as being bled into the rears to fill out the sound space. The gracelessness that I mentioned above, however, has to do with the other ways that the surround channels are utilized. You'll hear plenty of activity throughout the film—cannons blasting, volleys of gunfire pinging between speakers, a blade flipping end over end, etc.—but many of the cross-channel effects feel heavy-handed, standing out awkwardly from the surrounding sounds. Much more effective are the ambient noises—a babbling stream, sprinklers on the palace lawn, the jeers of Parisian peasants—which don't exactly create a convincing audio world, but do add to the experience. Dialogue throughout is clean, clear, and easily discernable, and everything is balanced quite well, so that no volume boosting or diminishing is required.
The Man in the Iron Mask Blu-ray, News and Updates• Hang 'Em High, Man in the Iron Mask Blu-ray - March 26, 2010 An early announcement to retailers indicates that MGM will release two catalog titles on May 11: Hang 'Em High, a 1968 western starring Clint Eastwood; and The Man in the Iron Mask, the 1998 retelling of the Alexandre Dumas novel with an all-star cast. As with ...
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