The second dream collaboration of Spielberg and Cruise should've been a guaranteed success, but due to strange behaviour from Mr Cruise on the press tour of this movie and his strange behaviour on Opera declaring his love for Katie Holmes, it shadowed the movie, and Paramount cancellation of Cruise's picture deals.
Shame as this is a great movie, one of Cruise's better performances, unfortunately never shown the love on home media, with an okay picture quality on DVD to a washed out dreadful looking Blu-ray release, we heard that a 4K release would be available and would it be better, well I can say yes it is.
For grain haters this film is full of grain, but picture quality is stunning, it still maintains a strange colour palette, but nighttime scenes where most of this film is set looks great, the basement scene later on has great amount of detail. The opening attacks look amazing with humans turning into dust clouds seeing every grain of dust on Cruise's jacket.
The sound mix is the most impressive for me, one that will annoy most neighbors with the booming sounds of the aliens, with a great bass mix, being one of the better movies I've heard on my sound system. With great sound, a great quality picture with a great full screen 16/9 ration although this is not a demo quantity disk, it is the best this film has looked and sounds on home media.
Picture quality ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Sound quality ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Is it worth the upgrade.... Yes.
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