Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		2.5
Video		1.0
Audio		1.5
Extras		0.0
Overall		1.0

Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman June 4, 2019

'Mo' Money' is currently only available in a two-film bundle with 'High School High.'

Johnny Stewart (Damon Wayans) is a low-level con-man who tries to get on the straight-and-narrow when he meets a beautiful young girl named Amber (Stacey Dash). He takes a job in the mailroom at the credit card company where she works and quickly finds himself committing credit card fraud. When his corrupt boss (John Diehl) finds him out, Johnny is promoted and thrust into a darker and more dangerous life of crime, exactly what he was trying to avoid.

Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

For anyone looking for a reverse reference quality 1080p transfer, look no further than Mo' Money. The image is a macroblokcing nightmare. Every shot -- daytime or nighttime, interior or exterior, close-up or broader vista -- is a mess of clumpy artifacts that destroy every last ounce of detail and stability. There's no feel for the picture's filmic roots. Rather than a sharp, natural image, this is a horrifically processed disaster with the feel of a low res web video. Grain is not present, replaced by a hideously processed appearance. While the image does look "sharper" thanks to the 1080p resolution, there's absolutely no feel for real detailing. It's painfully flat, failing to show more than the absolute bare minimum of facial, clothing, and environmental details. Colors are likewise flat and dull. There's no vibrance to anything in bright daytimes, even red apparel. Nighttime shots are so clumpy, flat, and absorbing that there's no telling what color is what. Skin tones are pasty. The image is watchable maybe from 30 feet away, but form normal viewing distances expect one of the worst Blu-ray images of 2019.

Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Mo' Money may as well be called Les' Audio. The Dolby Digital 2.0 presentation struggles to find anything of sonic interest. It's flat, maintains a crammed center-imaged posture (which is fine for dialogue, not so fine for most everything else), and struggles to even accommodate the handful of more prominent sound effects and moments in the movie, such as during a murder in chapter six where the scene, taking place down in a nearly empty subway, is accompanied by beating drums. To the track's credit, here it expands along the front, but clarity is minimal. When a shrieking subway car enters the fray, it too lack definition or a feel for its movement through the stage. Music is timid and clarity is severely lacking, finding a slightly more energetic display in chapter seven during a dance club scene. The track handles its base core elements well enough to get a listener through the movie -- much the same can be said of the visual experience -- but is content with less than the bare minimum.

Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

This Blu-ray release of Mo' Money contains no supplemental content.

Mo' Money Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Mill Creek's featureless Blu-ray for Mo' Money is in a state of shambles. The video quality is terrible and the audio is only a notch better. Skip it.