6.7 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
A couple's wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.
Starring: Jessica Rothe, Harry Shum Jr., Marielle Scott, Chrissie Fit, Jay PharoahRomance | 100% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
French: DTS 5.1
Spanish: DTS 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
The most predictable part of life is it's unpredictability. One day might be full of carefree joy and the next...a cancer diagnosis. That's the essential story within All My Life, a heartfelt drama that posits that life is “a series of forgotten days” until one day life gives something to remember, hopefully for the better, sometimes for the worse. The story centers on a young couple on the way to happily ever after when a life changing diagnosis threatens to tear it all apart. But rather than pack up and go home, the couple, through some tears and working through some terrors, pushes forward to celebrate what matters in life: making the best of the time allotted and refusing to allow pending storm clouds to ruin a day before the rain even begins to fall.
All My Life's 1080p transfer isn't life changing, but maybe it's format affirming. The digitally sourced motion picture translates quite nicely to Blu-ray, bringing the picture's inherent clarity, sharpness, and rich coloring to the screen with nary a fault to be found. The image is crisp and sure, well capable of capturing every urban detail both on city streets and in various interiors -- Jenn's apartment, coffee shops, doctor's offices, hospital rooms, and the like -- with lifelike clarity and command. Skin details are well revealing and clothing fabrics are sharp in close-up. Colors are bountiful. The palette is never wanting for greater spectrum diversity and usage. All variety of colors can be found on clothes and scattered through the wide ranging environments seen throughout the film, including vibrant natural greens. Skin tones are healthy and black levels are deep. Source noise is kept in check and there are no other immediately obvious source blemishes or encode shortcomings. The picture may not register as "special" but is very faithful to its source and presents it to about best case scenario at the 1080p resolution. There's no real room for complaint. It's a winner.
All My Life's DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack is effectively boring, for lack of a better term. It's well capable but it's also well strict to adhering to sonic basics. Music is light and pleasing with seamless front side engagement. Surround wrap is minimal and there is no need for thunderous subwoofer support. This largely holds true for everything else, too. The track offers little in the way of dynamic, intensive sound effects. Most everything beyond music and dialogue comes in the form of natural atmosphere, sometimes very light, sometimes a little more pronounced for effect, but never to a dominating posture or presence. "Pleasing" may be a way to define barroom interiors, light city din, and other circumstantial audio supports. Dialogue is the movie's audio lifeblood, however, and it presents with perfectly fine front-center positioning. It's realistically detailed and well prioritized for the duration. Nothing special here, but nothing to mark the track as a struggle in any way, either.
Universal's Blu-ray release of All My Life contains no supplemental content. No DVD copy is included but the studio has bundled in a Movies Anywhere digital copy voucher. This release ships with an embossed slipcover.
All My Life explores themes of life's limits, its constraints, and the forgettable nature of the daily grind. But all of that can change in an instant, the movie posits, so never take a single day for granted. The film explores a relationship built on heart and sincerity, selflessness and soul. It's sweet and simple if even predictable, but the genuine approach to character building and storytelling helps to hide the movie's structural one-note limits. Universal's featureless Blu-ray does deliver solid video and audio. Recommended.
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