Deep Winter (2008/Sony DVD)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Telefilm: D
Movies
about or involving skiing usually at least have good, interesting footage of
that sport, but Mikey Hilb’s Deep Winter
(2008) manages to be the most wasteful, boring, pointless, rip-off of a
would-be ski/actioner we have ever seen or heard of. It arrives on DVD as co-star Kellan Lutz has
new recognition as a co-star in the hit Twilight. Add Michael Madsen, Robert Carradine and Hellboy II up-and-comer Luke Goss and
this is screaming actioner. However, it
is a total bore.
I knew
when the opening skiing sequence had a very, very, very bad imitation of Bill Conti’s score from the ski
sequence in the 1981 James Bond film For
Your Eyes Only that we were in trouble.
Then it just gets worse and worse and worse. It looks bad, is badly edited, had a poor
screenplay and is lucky it got a major like Sony to pick it up.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is not great, has motion blur to go and
the snow never looks good, degraded in the post-production process, so even if
the skiing worked, it would still look bad.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix lacks surrounds and the recoding all around is
not that great, with dialogue going into the “mumble zone” more often that it
should. There are no extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
