Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great movie. A real classic. I have enjoyed watching it.

Awesome movie with a great cast of actors. The 4k rendering and updated audio is a positive addition to this great movie

Owned this movie in blue ray and was very happy to be able to purchase it in 4K when it became available.

Great transfer of yet another David Lean masterpiece. Just note that this does not come with the digital copy!

Have always loved this classic and love it more now in 4K! Great video transfer and awesome audio!

Bought for my son for his birthday. He had never seen it before. He liked it.

This movie is great in 4k. The colors of the jungle , beach and sky jump off the screen with hdr. The detail in amazing, particularly on the faces of the actors. The story is great and the acting superb

Classic movie…. Awesome acting… Alec Guinness earned an Oscar here, and rightly so

The movie won a total of seven Oscar's including best picture, best actor to Alec Guinness and best director. A classic film that has stood the test or time. Critically acclaimed

They don't make movies like this anymore. Wow just wow

Although Kwai is one of the greatest movies ever made and this is the best looking version of it any of us will ever see, I can't figure out who at Sony thought this the best choice for their first old classic film to be issued on 4K bluray. I would have thought they'd want to blow people away with their first such release! Kwai. Although an incredible movie, it is a film plagued by image quality issues. Equipment problems and a faulty prime lens (which could not be replaced in time to be of any help) resulted in sharpness issues in many scenes. Excessive film grain problems are only enhanced in 4K. Sony also owns another classic masterpiece by the same director, David Lean (and it too won the Best Picture Oscar), and which was filmed in 65mm (the equivalent of roughly 11k!) and looks amazing. They even have a 4K transfer which I've seen and it is SPECTACULAR! The grain structure of this film shot on large format film as practically microscopic and the sharpness in eye boggling! It would have made a far more impressive choice to usher in Sony classics on 4K bluray than the image flawed Kwai. If you love this film as I do, you will never see a better version available--buy it. But it is still a very weird choice for this format--and one which will blow nobody away.

I picked this up at a good price for $16.99. The 4K disc shows medium film grain which is fine for a 65 year old film. there are a few scenes that that have heavier than I would like,but over all very good. The High Dynamic Range shows good contrast and there are several scenes where the color pops. The night scene where the bridge is set up with explosives is outstanding thanks to the HDR. Night looks like night. The atmos track is good with immersive sound and thunderous explosions.

Great transition to blu ray. Awesome picture and sound.

Great movie and suspense movie lots of action packed scenes

Movies like this are the reason to upgrade to 4k. Be aware that there is noticeable film grain in the image, but that's because this movie was shot on film. So owning this disk is essentially having a perfectly preserved 35mm print of the film at your disposal to watch at any time. It is glorious, especially when considering that there are no special effects or miniatures on display here. Everything you see is what the camera operators saw, full scale, during shooting. A classic.

I have watched the 4K and have compared it to a few scenes on the blu-ray and considering this film was made a little over 60 years ago it looks great. The 4K is clearer and sharper than the blu-ray Backgrounds etc. very grainy on the BD not so much on the 4K. The score and sound effects are strong. One of the best anti-war films made. Still a great fillm after all these years.

I made the decision to buy the 4K version of the classic THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, and I am so glad I did. I watched this great movie in 4K using a 4K TV and a 4K blu ray player. It was almost as if you were there in the jungle with the actors. The Bridge on the River Kwai in 4K is a must see. Thanks Best Buy!

Bridge on the River Kwai deserves the 4K Ultra treatment of this David Lean classic. When restored properly, the 4K treatment of a 35mm film brings out tremendous detail and color contrast.

Excellent war movie. Watching the prisoners build the bridge and whistling while they worked kept my interest in the movie.

I never had the chance to watch this movie prior to buying it on 4K. I was very impressed with the story and the HD picture quality. Aside from the opening credits, the rest of the movie had amazing HD quality. Highly Recommended!!