The Salon
(2005)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Film: C
Mark
Brown (writer/creator, not director of, Barbershop)
is back repeating himself with The Salon,
a tired, unfortunate recycle of past ideas lucky enough to reunite the director
with Vivica A. Fox and add Terrence Howard, who is not in the film enough to
save it.
Chris
Rock made a joke about this while cycle of films where people (black, white and
otherwise) just happen to “hang around” places.
Of course, it is contrived beyond belief and almost a spoof it itself
here. Though it is not an exploitive
disaster, it slowly implodes until by its long 99 minutes are over, you wonder
what his point was. Yawn!
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image often has motion blur and the muted color
suggests an HD shoot, plus you have detail and depth limits. The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is very surround
poor and shows the limits of the production’s budget. There are no extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
