Heat [Blu-ray] On Sale

Title : Heat [Blu-ray]
ASIN : B0017HRJ04
Description : When Al Pacino and Robert De Niro squarer off, HEAT sizzles. A tale of a brilliant L.A. cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro). Val Kilmer, Jon Voight, Tom Sizemore, Ashley Judd and Natalie Portman co-star.
Features :

• Brand Name: WARNER HOME VIDEO Mfg#: 883929073337
• Shipping Weight: 0.37 lbs
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• Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE
• All music products are properly licensed and guaranteed authentic.

List Price : $14.98
Price : $8.48
Saved Price : $6.50

category: Blu-ray & DVD
brand: Warner Brothers
Item Page Detail URL : link
Rating : 4.5
Review : What a total disappointment of a Blu-Ray! :( There should be laws against treating such a *great* movie like this!
This release truly was a gargantuan disappointment. "Heat" is one of my all-time favorites and Michael Mann one of my favorite directors. I actually did not have huge expectations to this first incarnation of Heat on Blu-Ray--knowing the problems that exist on both the original 1999 DVD release (which I might add was pretty ok at the time, but not by today's standards) and the subsequent 2005 "Special Edition" (which had some interesting extras and commentary, but no change to the feature itself.)

But I mean honestly, I am in awe that not only does this disc have basically _the same_ audio track (re-encoded into Dolby TrueHD)--complete with the same muffled audio which for the most part totally lacks any kind of force, and dialogue which in some places is so low it borders on being ridiculous.
I can honestly say that it had no improvement, whatsoever, over the Japanese DTS edition which was released a couple of years back (which also is far from perfect.)...