Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson headlines the cast in this adequate, if hardly groundbreaking 2005 big-screen adaptation of the popular videogame franchise. The plot is forgettable, the performances are average at best and only the action scenes really deliver the goods - the standout being the much-touted ‘first-person shooter’ sequence. This BD features a VC-1 2.35:1 encode of the 113min ‘uncut’ version of the film, that does its best with the extremely dark cinematography but is hampered in places by a handful of soft looking shots (seemingly endemic to the source material), plus a booming DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack. Extras, ported over from the DVD in 480p, take the form of six short featurettes.
Universal Pictures, All-Region Blu-ray, £19.99, On sale July 6
HCC VERDICT: 3/5