Arizona doesn’t break new ground in the crime-comedy genre but if you like Danny McBride’s style of humor and delivery, you’ll likely get some entertainment value out of it and I did find some moments fairly humorous.
Arizona
(2018)
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime
RLJ Entertainment | NR – 83 min. – $35.97 | October 16, 2018
Date Published: 10/25/2018 | Author: The Movieman
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RLJ Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this Blog Post.
The opinions I share are my own.
PLOT SYNOPSIS |
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Cassie (ROSEMARIE DEWITT) is a real estate agent and single mom struggling to keep it all together during the housing crisis of 2009. Her problems go from bad to worse when disgruntled client Sonny (DANNY MCBRIDE) violently confronts Cassie’s boss (cameo by Seth Rogen) and then kidnaps Cassie — making one outrageously bad, and bloody, decision after another. Things completely spiral out of control. |
SPECIAL FEATURES – 1.75/5 |
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This release comes with a matted and title-embossed slip cover. The only features included is a Making-of (8:39) featurette and a Photo Gallery, available on both the Blu-ray and 4K UHD discs. |
4K VIDEO – 4.0/5, BD VIDEO – 4.0/5 |
| The movie is presented with a fine looking if not also pretty lackluster 1.78 widescreen aspect ratio and given a 2160p high-definition transfer (HEVC/H.265 codec). Not that this was a poor looking transfer, actually it doesn’t look half bad but you could’ve fooled me that this was in 4K. Comparing it directly with the 1080p Blu-ray version, the difference is rather negligible, perhaps the 4K UHD was a bit sharper and there was an ever-so-minor upgrade to the brightness with the HDR, but even there’s not a night and day difference. |
AUDIO – 3.75/5 |
| The 4K UHD and Blu-ray both come with a standard DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track which is on the basic side of things providing with fine dialogue levels through the center channel while the front and rear channels are rather light. |
OVERALL – 3.0/5 |
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Overall, Arizona doesn’t break new ground in the crime-comedy genre but if you like Danny McBride’s style of humor and delivery, you’ll likely get some entertainment value out of it and I did find some moments fairly humorous. This 4K release is fine though the transfer is not a whole lot different from its Blu-ray counterpart. |
The screen captures came from the Blu-ray copy and are here to add visuals to the review and do not represent the 4K video.