36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
A2zcds.com Remastered Edition of "Detour" is a piece of junk., March 11, 2010
This review is from: Detour [1945] [Remastered Edition] (DVD)
Five stars for the movie. I agree that this is a great work of film noir.
I knew upfront that the print quality of this film would be less than perfect. So, in order to get the very best print, I purchased all three DVDs that were available - Alpha Video, Image Entertainment, and the A2zcds.com Remastered Edition.
The A2zcds.com Remastered Edition of "Detour" is a piece of junk. Don't waste your money. It has the picture quality of an amateur You Tube video. The various shades of black and gray are broken down into large digital cubes. The digital cubes are about a half inch in size and dance all over the screen when there is any movement - which is very distracting. Also, for more than half of the movie, from the point of the movie where Tom Neal picks up Ann Savage and they begin talking in the car - the voice audio track is not in sync with the lip movement. You hear what the person says before their lips even move.
The Alpha Video release of "Detour" has problems with its grays. The grays are not crisp and have a very small hint of sepia color. Also the audio seems a little muffled.
The Image Entertainment release of "Detour" while far from perfect is the better one of the three versions currently available.
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Good movie, terrible DVD, January 19, 2009
This review is from: Detour [1945] [Remastered Edition] (DVD)
I have no problems with the movie. But technically, the quality of this disc is beyond terrible. It looks like a YouTube video does when you play it on a 50-inch plasma. Only worse -- compression artifacts, tiling with squares the size of Post-it Notes, banding that looks like 16-bit grayscale. It made the whole thing unwatchable for me. [...]
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Noir to its very bones, June 16, 2009
This review is from: Detour [1945] [Remastered Edition] (DVD)
The Bottom Line:
A "skid row" production, Detour is an incredibly minimalist picture that manages to do a lot with very little and emerges as a interestingly-hard edged psychological thriller of a noir; the Hays Code-enforced ending detracts a little from the spirit of the film, but Detour is a diversion worth taking.
3.5/4
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