6.1 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
A high-end call girl with a secret military connection keeps a team of bumbling, up-and-coming private detectives from searching for answers.
Starring: Scott Mechlowicz, Alphonso McAuley, Winter Ave Zoli, Vanessa Branch, Leonardo NamComedy | 100% |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
UV digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Cat Run 2 ties in with the original Cat Run by returning some characters -- but not the title Catalina "Cat" character -- and retaining Director John Stockwell to helm the movie. So it's Cat Run more in name and secondary character appearance only, which is fine considering that the film has no aspirations beyond, well, anything other than appearing on screen, it seems. The sequel flips and flops through an uneven tone of T&A, tattoos, comical hijinks, and cooking, all sprinkled...no...splashed...no...slathered in makeshift Norleans culture and Cajun accents. The movie isn't aimless, it just aims to be all-inclusive, to bend to the whim of a filmmaking team seemingly more determined to manufacture a movie made of bits and pieces of stuff, how well it all gels be damned. It's occasionally fun, sure, but the shenanigans wear rather thin, and fast, as it hops, skips, and jumps, seemingly at will and at random, from one thing to the next with only a cursory throwaway plot barely holding it all together.
Oh, how original!
Cat Run 2's digitally sourced 1080p transfer generally pleases. While it's a bit flat and while blacks sometimes push a little too pale, it finds a nicely consistent level of coloring and detail that help bring it to life. Complex fabric texture, intimate skin lines, and other basic details excel. Image clarity is more often than not a strength, though the film's flattest, coldest scenes leave a bit to be desired. Colors are cheery with a nice range and strict attention to detail and nuance, though the palette does push mildly yellow at times. Viewers won't be distracted by any excessive bits of noise or banding. This is a technically proficient transfer of a movie that is, for the most part, visually pedestrian.
Cat Run 2 packs a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack that's inconsistent but more often than not on the plus end of the scale. Everything wavers, with music, effects, and dialogue all in various states of sonic readiness and exactness. Background music at a strip club enjoys a fair, lightly muddled strain but lacks a deep low end. More aggressive score is strong and clear but never wraps the listener up in the moment. Gunfire ranges from limp to heavy. Ambient support switches between light and nonexistent. Even dialogue, as straightforward, center-focused, and articulate as it usually may be, once or twice falls down and fails to recover sufficient weight and volume, evident predominantly when Anthony and Julian first arrive in New Orleans. The issues aren't pervasive, but they're enough to drag the track down from the upper echelons of lossless audio.
Cat Run 2 contains no supplements, and no "top menu" is included. Chapters and subtitles tabs must be accessed in-film via the "pop-up" menu button on the remote control. Inside the Blu-ray case, buyers will find a voucher for a UV/iTunes digital copy.
Cat Run 2 isn't necessarily bad, it's just too random and aimless for its own good. It's all over the (New Orleans, er, Norleans) map, forcing in odd little bits here and there that loosely tie together what is itself a loosely defined plot. The movie's goal, it seems, is to simply have fun with what it has on hand, and no matter how random, it's all game. But it doesn't quite work, not in the way the best "random" Comedies work, anyway. The movie means well and tries hard -- a little too hard -- and winds up leaving viewers scratching their heads rather than laughing and falling out of their seats and ROTLFTFAO. Universal's featureless Blu-ray release of Cat Run 2 delivers satisfactory video and audio. Skip it.
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