The
Suspect (2013/Image Blu-ray)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: A Film: C+
When
a small town bank get robbed, a town's sheriff only suspect is a
mysterious African American passing through town. Determined to get
the money back, the sheriff (William Sadler) will go to any means to
prove his prisoner
is the bank robber, but when the missing money turns up elsewhere,
the suspect claims the sheriff is part of a large social experiment
to uncover racial profiling and racism within the police force. But
there is more than meets the eye when the money really
does
go missing...
In
Stuart Connelly's The Suspect (2013), two
mysterious black men (Mekhi Phifer, Sterling K. Brown) are accused of
robbing a banks, but after the money is returned each time and the
revelation that it was social experiment conducted by two university
professors, all the cops are pissed off having been proven racist.
But turns out, the two men really
are robbing
the banks and then just replacing the real money with counterfeit
money for their own purposes, but when a local sheriff catches whiff
of something doesn't smell quite right, things get a lot more
complicated a lot faster.
This
was film was all smoke and mirrors, the suspects who turn out not to
be suspects and the police is made to look like white racists and
villains, but when the suspect turns out to be REAL and the police
also is REALLY white racists and villains. The theme seems to be if
man can get away with evil, regardless of who he is (even a sheriff),
a man will commit evil.
The
1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image and DTS-HD MA (Master
Audio) 5.1 lossless mix are a bit underwhelming, party from budget
and partly from style choices, so expect limits in overall playback.
Extras include behind the scenes, extended scenes and commentary.
-
Ricky Chiang
