Romancing The Stone is released by Twentieth Century Fox on Blu Ray. The disc is Region coded A but its highly likely that the exact same transfer is released throughout the world.
Directed by Robert Zemeckis the film stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito and it's a hugely entertaining old fashioned adventure with a touch of romance thrown into the mix.
Turner plays Joan Wilder, a romantic novelist, when her sister is kidnapped she goes to Colombia to pay the ransom and ends up in a wild adventure involving a treasure map and the search for a precious jewel, Michael Douglas plays Jack T. Colton, an adventurer who is looking to make his fortune and see's Joan as just another payday.
Fine support is provided by Danny DeVito who plays Ralph and is also interested in the treasure map.
The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, he also directed the Back To The Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump and more recently The Polar Express and Beowulf, Zemeckis is a fabulous director who knows how to stage an action scene and get the best performances from his cast. There have been rumours of Douglas reprising his Colton role.
The image quality on Blu Ray is superb with high detail levels and there is a light grain structure to the image which has not been tampered with in a negative way.
I saw no issues with edge enhancement nor did i see any compression problems with the transfer and i feel what is on this disc represents the look of the original film.
This is a fabulous and entertaining film and it also have a sequel called Jewel Of The Nile, Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas have great chemistry together and the film has a great music score.
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