I received my BR disc of this yesterday and watched it last night. My review--Audio first. The sound on this BR version is VERY good, IMO. Clarity of spoken words, music, effects (gun shots, explosions, etc.). I think this is much better than the DVD version. But, now, the Video portion. I feel the quality of video on this is all over the map. The opening scene ("The Kid" behind barrels at the poker game with Flattop bursting in) is quite good. Just what you would expect from a quality transfer for BR. But, then, you have scenes (e.g.-where Tracy & Breathless are at the docks with two big ships in the picture) that are absolutely wrong. In this scene, it looks like it may have been lifted directly from the DVD without any "work" done to help it. It almost looks like it has been deliberately softened. There is no fog in this scene. So, the softness can't be blamed on "atmosphere". Anyway, to me, that is the way the video on the disc is, quality wise. Some scenes look great, some look like they were just thrown in and forgotten. As to other parameters--enhancement (on the "good" scenes) is very good, overall color rendition/saturation is very good. Considering that a lot of "primary" solid colors are used, this would be easy to mess up. If I were to grade this BR, I'd give audio an "A" and video a "C-". I feel let down by this. I've had the DVD version for years and have always wanted a "good" BR transfer/restoration. So, I guess, overall, this BR is better than the DVD. But, video-wise, not by that much. YMMV. Do any of you, out there, feel this way? Or, am I just being too picky? One other thing--a nit to pick about continuity. On the DVD version (in the early scene where Tracy follows Breathless back to her dressing room), on the wide shot of the interior of the club, you see the walls around Breathless's dressing room are bathed in green light. In the next scene (where you're looking out from the interior of her dressing room to Tracy standing in the hall), the walls are bathed in blue light. I thought that would have been caught long ago and fixed in the BR version. That really would not be hard to correct. Oh, well.
