Naturally, some of the contributors in this programme uses colourful language,
hence the 15-certificate.
Meet Reggie. He's dead. Ha, ha.
The programme was made in 16:9 anamorphic widescreen as has been presented
as such. Most of the time the picture looks great, but in a few interview
shots they've used an intentional slight-haziness which has an adverse effect
on the picture and was a bad idea. It doesn't put you off the content though,
if that's your bag.
As for the sound, this is mainly a conversation piece. Dialogue is clear as a
bell, but there's nothing to test your speakers here so don't be put off by
the low score.
The brief extras consist of Biographies of famous thugs they hung around
with including Freddie Foreman, Johnny Squib, plus detective Nipper Read
who put them away,
Reggie Kray's Funeral: Order of Service, the list placed under a
camera and The Kray Manor, a map of where they did their dastardly
deeds. The press release described this as an "interactive map", but it's not
at all. It's a 2-minute piece of video with the camera scrolling down a map.
There are 24 chapters, breaking it up into one chapter per topic, the menus
are static but the main one features the music from the programme and subtitles
come in English.
As of April 2009, Blu-rays and DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TH-37PX80B
37" Plasma TV with a Sony BDP-1500 Blu-ray player and played through a Yamaha DSP-AX820 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
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