{"id":7467,"date":"2014-06-16T11:27:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2014-06-16T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T18:28:21","slug":"review-beyondthetrophy-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2014\/06\/review-beyondthetrophy-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Beyond the Trophy DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Beyond the Trophy<\/em><\/strong> isn\u2019t a good movie. Perdiod, end of the discussion. The performances are at best wooden including Michael Madsen and the story is filled with clich\u00e9 after clich\u00e9 to go along with a poorly written script. Add to that, the production values are pretty bad making for a terrible looking picture.<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Trophy<\/span>
\n(2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n


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\nThe Movie<\/a> | Special Features<\/a> | Video Quality<\/a> | Audio Quality<\/a> | Overall<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Genre(s): <\/strong>Crime, Thriller
\nArc Entertainment | NR \u2013 96 min. \u2013 $20.99 | June 3, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nDirected by: <\/strong>Daniel J. Gillin
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Daniel J. Gillin (written by)
\nCast: <\/strong>Michael Madsen, Stephen Cloud, Tiny Lister, Eric Roberts<\/p>\n

DISC INFO:<\/span>
\nFeatures: <\/strong>Trailer
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n

Audio: <\/strong>English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
\nVideo: <\/strong>Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>None
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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PLOT SUMMARY<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Beyond the Trophy<\/em><\/strong> tells the story of men\u2019s obsession with power and how far they will go to claim the \u201cprize\u201d.<\/p>\n

Two rival gangs in Los Angeles and Las vegas, led by Gino (ROBERT MIANO) and Cole (MICHAEL MADSEN), are vying for control. Danny (MICHAEL MASINI), an LAPD undercover police detective, goes deep into gangland to infiltrate one gang to bring down both.<\/p>\n

Along the way, he becomes entangled with the beautiful and seductive Angela (ALI CASTELLO), whose relationship with her husband Jake and mob leader Gino makes her the focal point of an intoxicating romantic equation \u2013 with deadly consequences. Her dream is to escape the wrath of evil abusive men, and find the love she never knew.<\/p>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 0.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Other than a trailer (2:07)<\/strong><\/span>, no other features were included.<\/p>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 2.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Beyond the Trophy<\/em><\/strong> arrives on DVD with an anamorphic 1.78 presentation and quite frankly looks utterly awful due to what I assume was a shoestring budget. Colors are washed out and even for standard def, it just looks fuzzy.
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AUDIO \u2013 2.5\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Dolby Digital 5.1 track is loud and that\u2019s really the best thing I can say about it. Michael Madsen\u2019s stilted narration booms out of the front and rear channels while the main action takes place primarily through the center speaker.<\/p>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 1.0\/5<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Overall, Beyond the Trophy<\/em><\/strong> isn\u2019t a good movie. Perdiod, end of the discussion. The performances are at best wooden including Michael Madsen and the story is filled with clich\u00e9 after clich\u00e9 to go along with a poorly written script. Add to that, the production values are pretty bad making for a terrible looking picture; it says something that the most professional thing is the DVD artwork. The DVD has below average video\/audio and there\u2019s only a trailer as a feature.<\/p>\n

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Published: <\/strong>06\/16\/2014<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Trophy isn\u2019t a good movie. Perdiod, end of the discussion. The performances are at best wooden including Michael Madsen and the story is filled with clich\u00e9 after clich\u00e9 to go along with a poorly written script. Add to that, the production values are pretty bad making for a terrible looking picture.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,970],"tags":[2971,775,2972],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd-reviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-beyond-the-trophy","tag-eric-roberts","tag-michael-madsen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7469,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}