BLU-RAY REVIEW: BACKTRACE
2/18/2019

OVERVIEW: The lone surviving thief of a violent armored-car robbery is sprung from a high-security facility and administered an experimental drug in the action-thriller Backtrace, arriving on Blu-ray™ (plus Digital), DVD, and Digital on February 19 from Lionsgate. This film is currently available On Demand. Starring Ryan Guzman, three-time Oscar®nominee Sylvester Stallone (1976, Best Actor/Best Screenplay, Rocky; 2015, Best Supporting Actor, Creed, 2015), and Golden Globe®nominee Matthew Modine (Best Actor –Limited Series or Television Motion Picture, What the Deaf Man Heard, 1998), the BacktraceBlu-ray and DVD includes the featurette “Making Backtrace”andcast/crew interviews

SYNOPSIS: After suffering a brain injury from a bank heist gone wrong, Macdonald (Modine) develops amnesia and is put into a prison psychiatric ward. Following his seventh year of evaluation, he is coerced by an inmate (Guzman) and a ward doctor (Meadow Williams) to break out of prison and injected with a serum that forces him to relive the life he’s forgotten. Macdonald must now elude a local detective (Stallone), a tough FBI agent(Christopher McDonald), and the drug’s dangerous side effects in order to recover the stolen money, all while confronting his past.

BLU-RAY: The film is presented in widescreen in a 1.85:1 aspect ration preserving its theatrical format. The picture is just flawless. Not only the picture looks great in this release, also the sound it is good, a 5.1 Master Audio in English that provides a good complement to the picture. It also includes  English Spanish subtitles.

VIDEO:
Widescreen (1.85:1) 16x9

AUDIO:
English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Subtitles - English SDH, Latin SpanishDH

SPECIAL FEATURES:

Blu-ray™ unleashes the power of your HDTV and is the best way to watch movies at home, featuring 6X the picture resolution of DVD, exclusive extras and theater-quality surround sound.

“MakingBacktrace” Featurette

Cast/Crew Interviews