Cold and dark the

Cold and dark the morning

Abandoned as a child by her own alcoholic mother, Dahlia may just be projecting her fears and insecurities onto her new environment. Connelly delivers a restrained performance free of the histrionics expected in this type of movie, and shes supported by equally good turns from Reilly, Postlethwaite, and especially Tim Roth as her concerned divorce attorney. Each of these roles cold and dark the morning pretty straightforward but are given unexpected complexities. The movie is plenty atmospheric and creepy, but not at all the type of gory shocker the studio promoted it as, which probably accounts for its poor reception. If not exactly a genre masterpiece, the new Dark Water genuinely surprised me with its intelligence and depth of characterization. Its a better movie than it needed to be, and even a better movie than the source its based on. Dark Water debuts on the Blu-ray format courtesy of Touchtone Home Entertainment a division of Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The disc contains only the movies original theatrical cut, not the slightly rejiggered Unrated Cut available on standard DVD. That alternate version adds one scene but removes two others found here and actually clocks in a minute shorter. Like Buena Vistas other Blu-rays, the disc has no main menu screen, just Blu-ray pop-up menus accessible while the movie plays. This becomes an issue during the initial set-up if you wish to change your audio or subtitle options. Since the pop-up menus dont work while the movie is paused, you have no choice but to navigate through all the menus while the beginning of the movie plays beneath them, cold and dark the morning then skip back to the start of the chapter when youre done. The interface is far from user friendly. Blu-ray discs are only playable in a compatible Blu-ray player. They will not function in a standard DVD player or in an HD DVD player. Please note that the star rating scales for video and audio are relative to other High Definition disc content, not to traditional DVD. The Dark Water Blu-ray is encoded in High Definition 1080p format using MPEG2 compression on a single-layer 25 gb disc. The movie is cold and dark the morning in its theatrical aspect ratio of approximately 35:1 with letterbox bars at the top and bottom of the 16:9 frame. The movie has a stark photographic style that emphasizes contrasty images, drab colors, and quite a lot of film grain. The daughters deep red coat is just about the only color that makes an impression, likely deliberately so. Shadow detail is disappointingly murky for such a dark movie. Edge enhancement artifacts are also visible throughout.