Armour of God Blu-ray Screenshots (Patreon)

Video

Sloppy, soft, and filtered, Armour of God deserves a far better master than what's offered. While hardly a catastrophe, Armour of God struggles to produce fidelity in any notable quality. Grain reduction doesn't eliminate texture but does reduce it. What's left appears chunky, littered with artifacts, but it's not the encode.

Black crush impedes the shadows, further reducing detail and robbing Armour of God of depth. Passable contrast helps life the imagery a little, but it's still routine at its best.

Moderate color is afforded a basic, flat quality, with an occasional pop from scenery (say, flowers). Flesh tones hit a reasonable saturation level, but go no further.

Audio

Arguably the most packed uncompressed audio menu in this format's history, Shout's disc defaults to Mandarin stereo. Three Cantonese DTS-HD tracks change the ending theme. Three DTS-HD English dubs also offer the differing ending themes. There's an additional 5.1 English track in Dolby Digital. That makes seven uncompressed audio tracks for one movie.

As for the Mandarin, the stereo split is impressively done, and at times convincingly close to a surround track. As Chan enters a plane after the opening action, it spreads wide enough to sound as if entering the rear channel on the right. The strained, at times even awful dialog fidelity aside, Armour of God otherwise produces a range-hearty mix, with deep sound effects and bright music.