Horizontal edge enhancement is used frequently, appearing in many scenes, but the print used for this transfer was quite clean: film artefacts were only occasionally visible and never distracting. Many parts of the film seemed a hair soft, although whether this is a transfer problem I couldn't say. Timecop's director, Peter Hyams, is notorious for the softness of his films; The Relic a case in point, so this effect could conceivably be a deliberate choice. Blacks were fairly deep, though not quite as solid as those of the best transfers, and were handled well, with no digital artefacting: the bane of dark scenes. Considering the age of this film, I had hoped for better, but this transfer is still perfectly acceptable, earning three and a half stars out of five.
 

The front channels are used well, although many effects are rooted in the centre channel a little more firmly than I would have liked, and the front soundstage isn't particularly wide or enveloping. The surround channels are put to good use, coming into play in quite a few scenes, while the LFE channel, silent throughout much of the film, makes its presence known in several key scenes. Sadly, dialogue is an entirely different matter, being unusually harsh and brittle throughout the entire film, to the point of distraction. If your amplifier includes any type of front channel re-equalisation, you're strongly advised to use it. Your ears will thank you.

Normally, based on this soundtrack's positive attributes I would have given it three and a half or even four stars. However, in light of the dialogue problems, I can only give this disc's soundtrack three stars.