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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment . R4 . COLOR . 102 mins . MA15+ . PAL

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I tried to keep an open mind when I sat down to watch this film, as I'd had some conflicting reports about it from friends - some liked it, others thought it to be a waste of time.

Briefly, the film follows Hatch Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) who is resuscitated after dying in a car accident. However, when he returns from his stint on the other side, Hatch brings with him a psychic link to a killer, and now each can see through the eyes of the other. What follows is a reasonable thriller where Hatch attempts to track down the murderer before his family is killed, while those around him think he is mad. Being a thriller, I can't really say much more without spoiling the film too much.

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Storyline aside, this film looked great. No noticeable artifacts, and everything looking crisp and clear. The movie alternates a bit between dark and well lit scenes, and the picture quality doesn't suffer at all - you see everything you are meant to see in perfect detail. This may not be a particularly special disc, but the video transfer is superb.

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Audio on the whole, was quite good, making use of all channels where appropriate to the film with good spatial separation. The only thing I may have done differently was pan the sound from the TV towards the rear when the cameras focus swings around to Hatch.

Dialogue was clear throughout the film, with a minor exception at the beginning where it sounded a little muffled and hard to make out, though this may have been intentional because of the music playing in the scene.

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You won't be buying this disc for it's extra features, trust me. What they have included are the run-of-the-mill filmographies of the three main actors, and the usual cast and crew interview featurette that studios try and push on us as a "Making of" documentary. At least it's got subtitles.

Oh yes, there's no theatrical trailer on the disc - must've gotten lost at the cleaners or something...

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I like a good thriller, as much or more so than the next person, so I'm glad I put aside the bad things I'd heard about this film and watched it anyway. The ending may not be to everyone's liking (myself, I thought it a little unbelievable) but the journey itself is well worth it, with strong performances by both Jeff Goldblum and Christine Lahti.


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