Codec: HEVC / H.265 (81.9 Mb/s)
Resolution: 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
#English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
#German: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
This is a documentary about how the famous franchise was created. It’s, of course, made in the American style—that is, chaotic, chopped up into a jumble, jumping from one random topic to the next, with a completely idiotic presentation of interviews consisting of just a couple of phrases from each character, but with long bursts of giggles and laughter without the slightest hint of substance—to the point where even an intellectual like Reeves looks like a fool with a minimal vocabulary. That’s all true. But that’s just their way of presenting the material. Our guys, by the way, have long since copied them and present modern documentaries in exactly the same idiotic style, tailored for today’s crowd, who can’t hold onto a thought longer than two sentences. But on the other hand, this film contains a lot of fascinating information that, for me personally, for example, was completely unknown and revealed a different, unexpected side to the film. For instance, I was convinced this was the brainchild of some Rodriguez-level film aesthete, who’d recruited a hot chick and hired top-notch stuntmen. The result was something elegantly gory, incredibly stylish—a cross between film noir, a comic book, and classic kung fu. But it turned out to be a project by two stuntmen who had never filmed anything but weddings in their lives and had absolutely no money whatsoever. They simply couldn’t land Statham for the lead role, but—to their and our good fortune—Keanu agreed purely out of old friendship. And they got the funding literally one day before the project was about to be shut down as a lost cause. Because the studios told them exactly how to do it, but they dug in their heels like true neophytes who work not for the money, but for the idea. And they made the movie not because of, but in spite of the studio. For example, the bosses categorically ordered the famous scene where the puppy is killed to be cut because it would turn off the vast majority of viewers. They stood their ground. And the bosses were stunned by the results of the audience survey after the test screening, when, in response to the question on the questionnaire, “Do you think the level of violence caused by the killing of the dog exceeds reasonable limits?” more than half of the men said that, probably, yes, while 95 percent of the women replied, “Kill them all, every last one!”