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| Mercury Rising |
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Genre:Thriller
Reviewed In Issue 30 Of Widescreen Review®
Stars:
Bruce Willis, Alec Baldwin, Chi McBride, Kim Dickens |
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 DVD General Information |
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| (Studio/Distributor): |
Universal Studios Home Video |
| (Catalog Number): |
LD83590-WS |
| (MPAA Rating): |
R |
| (Retail Price): |
$34.98 |
| (Running Time In Minutes): |
112 |
| (Color Type): |
Color |
| (Chaptered/Scene Access): |
Yes |
| (Closed Captioned): |
Yes |
| (Theatrical Release): |
1998 |
| (LD Release Date): |
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| (THX® Digitally Mastered): |
Yes |
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| Credits Information |
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| (Director): |
Harold Becker |
| (Screenplay/Written By): |
Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal |
| (Story): |
NA |
| (Music): |
John Barry |
| (Director Of Photography): |
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| (Production Designer): |
Patrizia Von Brandenstein |
| (Visual Effects): |
Industrial Light & Magic |
| (Costume Designer): |
Betsy Heimann |
| (Editor): |
Peter Honess, ACE |
| (Supervising Sound Editors): |
Terry Rodman, MPSE |
| (Re-Recording Mixers): |
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| (Executive Producers): |
Joseph M. Singer & Ric Kidney |
| (Co-Producers): |
NA |
| (Producers): |
Brian Grazer & Karen Kehela |
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| DVD Picture Information |
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| (Principal Photography): |
Panavision |
| (Theatrical Aspect Ratio): |
2.40:1 |
| (Measured LaserDisc Aspect Ratio): |
2.32:1 |
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| DVD Sound Information |
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| (DVD Soundtrack): |
Dolby Digital Surround |
| (Theatrical Sound): |
DTS, SDDS & Dolby Digital |
| (Theatrical Re-Issue Soundtrack): |
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| (Remastered Dolby Digital): |
No |
| (Remastered DTS Digital Surround): |
No |
| (Additional Languages): |
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| WSR Narrative Review |
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Story Synopsis:
Based on the novel “Simple Simon” by Ryne Douglas Pearson, Mercury Rising tells the story of Art Jeffries (Bruce Willis), a renegade FBI agent who finds himself protecting Simon, a nine-year old autistic boy who has cracked the government’s new “unbreakable code“ known as Mercury. When Program Chief Nick Kudrow (Alec Baldwin) decides to salvage the project by having Simon eliminated, Jeffries decides to rescue the child in order to save his own humanity.
LaserDisc Picture:
LaserDisc Soundtrack:
| (Surround Bass Below 50Hz): |
Yes |
| (Aggressive System Surround): |
Yes |
| (Intense 25Hz Bass): |
No |
| (Deep Bass Challenging): |
No |
| (Aggressive 0.1 LFE): |
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| (Holosonic Soundfield): |
Yes |
| (Aggressive Split Surround): |
Yes |
| (Center Back Surround Imaging): |
No |
| (Directionalized Dialogue): |
No |
Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality: |
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Superb Music Score Recording Quality: |
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Superb Special Visual Effects Quality: |
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Superb Color Fidelity: |
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Superb Cinematography: |
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Reference LaserDisc: |
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Collector Edition: |
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DVD To LaserDisc Comparison:
The anamorphic widescreen DVD, viewed through the component video output, exhibits superb resolution with exemplary sharpness and detail compared to the LaserDisc, which by comparison appears softly focused and wanting in picture clarity. The difference is dramatic, with the anamorphic process producing the enhanced resolution and color fidelity. The DVD’s absence of chrominance noise removes a noise layer that veils the LaserDisc. The LaserDisc and letterbox aspect ratios are 2.32;1, while the anamorphic version is 2.20:1. The Dolby® Digital 5.1 discrete and matrix surround PCM soundtracks are effectively designed though the discrete often fails to create the sense of subtle ambient envelopment that the matrix version more consistently delivers. Often the discrete is limited to monaural or three-channel stereo with surrounds at barely audible levels. But the discrete sound design produces a better holosonic soundfield experience during the tense action sequences with effective split surround delineation. Bass is deep and powerful, and when activated, the .1 LFE heightens the overall dynamic character.
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