SAMDB review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle<\/a>.<\/p>\nDisc<\/h3>\n
Overall Kingsman: The Golden Circle, on DVD, is a good disc technically. Bonus features are sparse, but this does leave room for a higher bitrate for the film, which is an enjoyable one.<\/p>\n
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is available now, to purchase on disc, in South
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Video<\/h6>\n
Video is encoded at a high average bitrate. There are no visible artefacts on-screen, nor any visible colour bleed. Detail is maintained in the several darker scenes.<\/p>\n
Bitrate on the menu system is lower, leaving more room on the disc for the main feature, but is still good, with compression artefacts visible. The same goes for the bonus feature video.<\/p>\n
Viewers with the necessary hardware or software can scale up to a larger, or higher resolution screen, should they wish.<\/p>\n
Audio<\/h6>\n
Audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, with dialogue clear via the centre speaker. The weight of the soundtrack is carried by the front channels in slower scenes, with the surround channels used to great effect in the many action sequences, expanding the on-screen action, and further drawing the viewer into the story.<\/p>\n
Navigation<\/h6>\n
Navigation is simple, and easy to follow. The disc takes the viewer directly to the main menu, through a transition. The main menu has a motion background of a few clips from the main feature, with accompanying music.<\/p>\n
There are text buttons to play the main feature, set up, scenes, and extras.<\/p>\n
The set up sub-menu allows one to select the desired audio language, and select a sub-menu for subtitle selection.<\/p>\n
The scenes sub-menus each contains four large, colour, still thumbnails, for a total of twenty eight chapters. While these are numbered, they are not labelled, nor is there a chapter listing in the DVD packaging, meaning that some guesswork would be involved in trying to navigate to a particular part of the film.<\/p>\n
The extras sub-menu has text links for the two included bonus features.<\/p>\n
Bonus Features<\/h6>\n
Black Cab Chaos: Anatomy of a Killer Chase –<\/strong>\u00a0A featurette showing how the taxi cab chase, fight and shootout was created, using a mixture of computer generated footage, filmed footage, and green screen work.<\/p>\nA very interesting video, just over ten minutes long, that is sure to fascinate fans, and be of interest to the budding filmmaker.<\/p>\n
Kingsman Archives –<\/strong>\u00a0A collection of concept art, and stills of the cast, sets, and props, presented in the form of a slideshow. One can navigate manually, or allows for automatic advancement. Navigation of these is explained on-screen.<\/p>\nPackaging<\/h6>\n
Packaging for the DVD is standard, with a plastic jewel case. The front has a poster, with the film title.<\/p>\n
The back of the case has a short synopsis, a single still image from the film, bonus feature listing, and the usual technical labels.<\/p>\n