John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to find he is wanted for a series of brutal murders. His memories have vanished and even his beautiful wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly) has become estranged from him. So begins a quest to unravel the mysteries of his pact; a quest that will take him into a fiendish underworld where he is relentlessly pursued by the police and a gang of shadow-like beings known as the Strangers and where only the sinister Doctor Schreber (Keifer Sutherland) is able to help him.
The film itself has a very gothic feel, filmed at night so there are plenty of shadows and blacks. I actually watched this on Blu-ray and to be honest the picture quality was stunning. Blacks were Black and there was grain whatsoever to the picture.
The Blu-ray edition has two versions of the film, a theatrical version and Directors Cut version. Although this film is several years old now, it really has been bought back to life and feels like a film that has been made recently. The plot is very good, the characters are well played. The 7.1 Soundtrack sounded amazing even though I had it playing through a 5.1 system.
There are a few special features to get a bit more value for what you pay, but two versions of the film present this disc as a really worthy purchase.
As standards of Blu-rays get better, this is definitely a disc to set the standard by.
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