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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


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