Bigger than the Sky

 

Picture: B-     Sound: B-     Extras: D     Film: C

 

 

Bigger than the Sky falls into the ‘little too sweet to be good’ category for my taste and the film does have some redeeming qualities, but overall will leave most people a bit on the uneasy side of things.  It’s another indie film that has some promise and has a fairly original script, but despite all that, it fails to impress on almost every other level.

 

The plot is neither complex nor simple, but rather right in the middle.  Our main character is dumped by his girlfriend, which sets him on a path of irrationality, leading him to audition for the lead role in Cyrano de Bergerac, which he lands, upon which his luck gets even worse and more bad things happen to him.  The film stars John Corbett (most known for his role in My Big Fat Greek Wedding), Amy Smart (who I really enjoyed here), Sean Astin, and a few other upcoming stars or fairly known actors. 

 

This is about as basic as a DVD gets as well.  1.85 X 1 anamorphic transfer that looks fairly good with some muted colors, soft detail, dark scenes are noticeably bad, there is an abundance of grain throughout and overall this does not really give off a good impression for a film that is newer, but some of those technical problems could be due to it being an independent production, which probably could not afford the best of the best, especially when it came to the transfer or even the cameras, lenses, film stock, etc.  I doubt that this is a problem with MGM’s transfer.  Even the Dolby 5.1 mix sounds a bit exaggerated and almost too much.  I would guess that the film was more stereo in nature and has been forced into a surround feel just to do it.  There is very little happening surround wise anyway, but oh well. 

 

No extras either making this a hard one to sell and with everything else being so standard it is doubtful that this one will remain memorable in anyone’s brain.

 

 

-   Nate Goss