All-around excellent. No processing errors caught my eye. Natural-looking grain and not overly scrubbed. In this brief clip, flaws in the source are visible when you look for them, but they are completely fine.
I viewed the UHD. Its HDR10 is believable and non-blinding.
Very nice video. No complaints.
However, it’s over-subtitled and the translation is lacking.
We don’t need the entire Lord’s Prayer subtitled. It’s a pretty standard execution scene. Just this line, ending with an ellipsis, is enough.
The Spanish word for “no” is “no.” Do not subtitle cognates.
The title character’s nickname (“El Gato”) should be “The Cat” in English. (Though, in this example, the cop simply calls him, “Gato.”) We say “Mack the Knife,” not “Mack Messer.”
Coloring the subtitles pale yellow is a nice touch. I approve.
No complaints. Video looks good.
I really wish Vinegar Syndrome wouldn’t attach their noisy logo to the end of every movie, though.
Solid video. I had low expectations for the movie, but it has an amazing red herring!
A light touch, but there’s so much damage, that it would’ve looked fine without any repairs. This is a bad restoration not because damage remains, but because the repairs are ugly, creating their own artifacts.
Interpolation:
Interpolated spot repair. These scenes are over an hour into the movie. Up to this point, I wasn’t even noticing repairs bad enough to take notes until large areas of grain suddenly started warping as if due to terrible compression:
Frozen temporal cloning:
Opening and end credits use some other source, which looks like a recreation, de-grained and filtered to death. Check out that aliasing!
The included interviews use clips from this older, altered source. First, a sample from VS’s version:
Now, this older version, clipped from the Wen Chao-Yu interview. No wires and no grain:
It could have been so much worse.