The Note
(2007/Sony DVD)
Picture:
C Sound: C+ Extras: C- Telefilm: C-
No matter
how nicely you do something, if it is predictable and tired, it will nor work,
yet the makers of Christmas programming too often think boring is “Christmasee”
and the more bad melodrama the better.
In The Note, Genie Francis’
plays a newspaper columnist, whose father dies in an airplane crash, bringing
to a peak a bunch of personal troubles that were building up beforehand.
Suddenly
she finds a message from him meant for someone she does not even know and has
to go on a hunt for the recipient.
Needless to say they were not going to cal this The Hunt, but it is never as interesting as it premise and Ted
McGinley turns up as her co-star/supporting male character. This will be a curio for some, but a bore for
almost all. Too bad, because this had
some potential and its dialogue is part of the problem.
The
letterboxed 1.78 X 1 image is much softer than expected in what might be an HD
shoot, but with its motion blur could have been analog. Color is also a problem throughout. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is a little
better, but nothing exceptional. Two
interview pieces are the only extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
