Cliffhanger [Blu-ray] [1992] | ![Cliffhanger [Blu-ray] [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41361mjLHWL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Renny Harlin
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Vyto Ruginis, Max Perlich, Craig Fairbrass, Caroline Goodall
Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 11906
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 108
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5055201803801
ASIN: B0019GJ4BK
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Ralph Waite, Craig Fairbrass
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 Good stuff November 23, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rambo Stallone's rock-climbing adventure is a guilty pleasure best seen while passing out in a drunken haze. If that's not your style, consider drinking copious amounts of alcohol to make it through the DVD hilarious commentary from Stallone and director Renny Harlin.
Recorded separately methinks, Harlin's commentary clearly shows that he thinks his work is phenomenal (it's not). He's an idiot and a bore.
Stallone seems reserved in his comments. That is, until the end when he talks about "psychic crossroads" and career choices he's made in the past. Ha ha.
Not really a dissapointment.... September 2, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
..but also not a reference title. I had high expectations in "Cliffhanger". Being one of my fave movies, especially a great work from acclaimed director Renny Harlin, this blu ray release does not hold up with my hopes, but does not dissapoint either. The good news: the newly remastered picture and the overall transfer look definetly better than the DVD version. The bad news: It does not really give a thrill while watching the picture quality. Tough some scenes look pretty clear and sharp, and even occasionally touch the quality blu ray stands for, the all-in-all picture throughout the movie appears to be a bit un-sharp, somewhat with a loss of crispy clear pictures. There is no 3D-Feeling that some reference titles may give you.
Its hard to really judge on the pic, but it is not what i expected for a movie with glorious nature shots and breathless action. The compression of the 2,35:1 aspect ratio works very well, filmgrain is visible but does not disturb. Colours are saturated, but do not peak out. Close ups sometimes look awesome, sometimes blurry. The quality is changing a lot within the movie and left me behind with mixed feelings. All in all,
i'd give
65% out of 100% for the picture quality.
The audio does not come up any better. The music score is fine and supports the action, but dialogues sound often faded, while the whole work was done by my two front speakers and a bit by the bass speaker. At some point you can hear a bit wind and snow around the rest of the audio setup, but thats all. Shame is, there are NO subtitles available!
Thats 55% all in all.
The menu looks nice and works well, alongside with a bunch of extras that Optimum Releasing put on the disc, like personal introduction by Renny Harlin, Interviews, Behind The Scenes, Trailer etc. Especially the Audio Commentary work of Renny Harlin, together with his friendly and informative drop ins of the deleted scenes are worth a try. Thats 75% of 100%
Parting thoughts: "Cliffhanger" could have been a killer blu ray, if only the transfer and sound would be better. If you don't own the DVD, you may be very pleased with the blu ray, but if the title is already in your DVD collection, you better save the money.
 Movie: 4.5/5 Picture Quality: 2~3.5/5 Sound Quality: 3.5~4/5 Extras: 3.5/5 August 18, 2008
4 out of 11 found this review helpful
VC-1 BD-50 / Region B Locked / 1080p / 23.976fps / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 1:53:00 (h:m:s)
Movie size: 28,936,065,024 bytes
Disc size: 32,606,848,904 bytes
Average video bit rate: 27.24 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1ch 2415 kbps
DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1ch 3001 kbps (music only score-track)
Dolby Digital Audio 224 kbps English / French
Subtitles: English / Chinese / French / Spanish
Number of chapters: 32
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