L/R: Licensed By Royalty Mission File 3: Broken Angel (DVD)
APPROX. 75 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 2003 - MPA RATING: MA15
" The main problem with this series that keeps it from being A-class is that it’s too slick for its own good.
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Video:
The video aspect ratio is 1.33:1 (full-screen on 4:3 monitors). A recent release, this show doesn´t suffer from any encoding errors. However, I was a little disappointed by the colors. The color palette is pretty sparse, even on characters´ faces, which has the effect of making a lot of what you see appear to be two dimensionally flat. Perhaps this was an area more money could have been spent on.
Audio:
You can watch the show in either Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo Japanese or DD 2.0 stereo English. There is an option for English subtitles. I watched it in Japanese with English subtitles. I didn´t hear any problems with the audio. The voice acting is pretty good, too, as far as I know. The music is one of the best parts of the series, and really fits in well with the kind of "music video" feel of the action sequences.
Extras:
Despite being a new title, there are few extras. In fact there´s only one extra on this disc. Geneon included four TV commercials that aired in Japan. They´re short, and aren´t anything that hasn´t already been shown in the full-length trailer. I mean, was there nothing else they could have thrown in as an extra? No extra promotional or concept sketches? This is awful disappointing for as new a title as this.
--Miscellaneous--
The DVD comes with a single-page, fold out, colored insert with chapter listings on one side. On the inside is a split panel manga (Japanese comics) style drawing of Jack and Rowe opposite from Noelle.
Film Value:
Although I left the Film Value rating the same, I liked this disc a little more than the previous two. I would go so far as to compare the discs directly to the "James Bond" formula as follows; the first volume was like the opening from a "Bond" flick, where James handily wraps up some random case. The second volume was like the first third or so of a "Bond" film, where James gradually finds out how complicated the case really is. This volume tracks to where James will temporarily seem to be at a disadvantage. By that pattern, the final volume will unambiguously reveal who the good guys really are and who the bad guys are.
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