Breaker Morant Blu-ray Review & Comments

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Reviewed by Chris McEneany
Not at all as quiet or as boring as my childhood memories would have me believe, Breaker Morant is an intelligent and powerful film with excellent performances all round and subject matter that is still – and probably always will be – highly relevant and morally divisive. The story is well-told and immensely engrossing despite being dramatised in what is obviously culled from a stage-set play. Woodward is brilliant as the poet-warrior Morant and Brown makes every valiant attempt to steal the show from under him. The style is cool and leisurely and the tone a curious balancing act between the blackly comic and the sublimely moving.

Image’s disc delivers a fine DTS-HD audio track that thankfully doesn’t attempt to dress things up with any unnecessary bells and whistles, although can’t exactly excite or stimulate in any way compared to more recent fare. The picture has some issues, but they are not enough to dissuade anyone from purchasing the release and it is doubtful that the film has looked better than it does here. Extras-wise, this is a disappointment, though. The documentary is good, but we really want to know more about the film, itself, don’t we? Still, Breaker Morant is a great film and comes highly recommended to anybody who fancies a bit of an antidote to the conventional gung-ho attitudes of the war movie.
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