The Big Score (1983/Empire Pictures DVD)
Picture:
C- Sound: C Extras: D Film: C-
Despite
hating the term Blaxploitation, here is Fred Williamson long after that cycle staring
and directing the odd, dull street film The
Big Score (1983) as he plays a cop who must fight the system when he was
framed for money that suddenly goes missing.
Then Richard Roundtree shows up, as well as John Saxon, Bruce Glover and
Ed Lauter. Then it becomes a shootout
movie with no point and the Gail Morgan Hickman screenplay thinks it has
reinvented a dead cycle. Instead, it
scores very low as a film and is quickly forgettable.
The 1.33
X 1 image is as soft as an old analog transfer can be and is almost an outright
disaster. There is also damage and
scratches on the print occurrently. The
Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono is flat and very aged, down a few generations like the
image. Nothing stands out either
way. A few stills are the only would-be
extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
