Life
Of Crime (2013/Lionsgate Blu-ray)
Picture:
C Sound: B Extras: A Film: B-
It
was to be an easy job, kidnapping a rich man's wife and ransom her
for a million dollars, but things start getting complicated when find
out the rich man was already planning to divorce her and leave her
without any money. And when Mickey (Jennifer Aniston) finds about
her sleazy husband's mistress and illegal business, she wants in on
the ransom as well in Daniel Schechter's Life Of Crime (2013).
Mickey
is a trophy wife in a loveless marriage to a wealthy real-estate
owner. It wasn't until after she gets kidnapped and ransomed does
she learn that he's been cheating on her, planned to divorce her and
hid millions of dollars from his 'hotel' business. Ironically, her
would-be kidnappers respected her more than her drunkard of a
husband, but things get complicated on both sides of the fences when
her husband mistress thinks maybe it's a better idea with Mickey off
dead and one of the kidnapper's associate is a Nazi (with a gun
fetish) want to take sexual advantage of her! In a strange twist of
fate, the kidnappers decides protect her from those who lied and
cheated her, and the wife decides to join and support her would be
kidnappers.
I
couldn't decide if this film wanted to be drama or comedy. It's no
crime to steal from someone who is already a crook, right?
Everything gets more complex as more people find out about each
other's intentions and plans (maybe that's why kidnappers try not to
get to know their 'victims' because they don't need to add extra
drama to their plans). Tim Robbins also stars.
The
1080p 2.35 X 1 digital High Definition image is in the flat and dull
side, which does not help anything here much, but the DTS-HD MA
(Master Audio) lossless 5.1 mix fares better with a decent mix only
exhibiting minor flaws and plenty of old hit songs. Extras includes
deleted scenes, commentary, behind the scenes, envisioning the film,
choreography, and trailers.
-
Ricky Chiang
