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| Reviewed by: Chris Burton 08 May 2008 First Sunday
| |  Please shoot me in the face with the largest caliber weapon you can find. Please. What have they done here? What’s Tracy Morgan doing in this? What is the brilliant Katt Williams doing? I know what Ice Cube is doing here. This is no real big surprise for the gangsta rapper who sold out for the almighty dollar years ago.
Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Morgan) are best friends and petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a scheme to rob their neighborhood church. But of course nothing goes as planned. The duo end up holed up in the church with a zany cast of characters that they’re going to have to deal with if they ever plan on being successful. Will their conscience get the best of them? Will they learn the error of their ways? Will their be comedy in between? No, there will not be comedy of any redeemable value in between.
The only slightly redeeming factor of this film is Katt Williams. His stand-up is some of the funniest I’ve seen in years. But movie studios always destroy clever comedians with constant formulaic crap. His performance is kind of funny, but only in his delivery because he’s so good. The dialogue generally doesn’t have a drop of humor to it.
The Blu-ray is presented 1.85:1 widescreen and encoded at 1080p, and it of course looks fantastic- which is a shame, it should look terrible. It deserves an awful transfer, but alas. Given such recent source material, there are no blemishes or issues on the frame. Colors are incredibly bold and vibrant. Every single square inch of detail is perfect. This surprised me, because I really don't think this film had a very large budget. We also get excellent black detail in nearly every dark scene. This is a rich and beautiful video presentation. It would be like if a pile of shit somehow looked like the Mona Lisa.
Audio is Uncompressed PCM 5.1 surround, and its perfect for this film. By that, I don't mean that its bad- even though it should be because thats what this film deserves. What we get is an excellent "comedy" transfer. While its not incredibly aggressive, the surrounds do remain acceptably active throughout. Dialogue sounds perfect, and bass is deep and heavy when it needs to be. As far as a comedy goes, this is about as immersive as a soundtrack could get.
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