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Decoys
Columbia/Tri-Star // R // September 7, 2004
List Price: $24.96 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
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Audio: The Dolby Digital 5.1 audio, encoded at a bitrate of 448Kbps, is pretty straightforward. The surrounds are primarily used to reinforce the score and the soundtrack, with some chittering popping up in the brief kill sequences alongside some scattered use with microphones and police cruisers skidding onto the scene. There's not much going on in the lower frequencies either. Dialogue comes through pretty well, though some of the shouted dialogue sounded a little bit edgy. It's an okay mix, but it sounds more like it was geared towards stereo than six discrete channels. The disc also includes both closed captions and English subtitles.
Supplements: "Decoys: Behind the Scenes" (21:25) was shot for cable as kind of a promotional tool, so there are a bunch of lengthy clips from the movie and extended descriptions of the plot and various characters.
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Conclusion: Decoys tries to juggle a bunch of different genres but never manages to master any of 'em. Though there are some bits I liked -- the almost sympathetic nature of the aliens and Luke's not-so-sympathetic retaliation, f'r instance -- but the end result is a squarely okay movie that's too flawed to really recommend. Rent it if you wanna see it.
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