My Name is Bruce Blu-ray

My Name is Bruce

 (2007)

Comedy | Horror



Something evil is stirring in the small mining town of Gold Lick, and it's not happy. Guan-di, the Chinese protector of the dead with a strange affinity for bean curd, has been awakened by reckless teenagers, and now his bloody crusade to wipe out the town's entire population can only be stopped by one man - Bruce Campbell (the guy who starred in all three Evil Dead movies and Bubba Ho-tep), B-move star and deadbeat ex-husband extraordinaire, who's recruited to be their unwitting savior. Thinking the whole scenario's a publicity prank, Bruce is distracted from his mission by a hot mom and fan boys aplenty-- but when our hero has to face off against a dark force more fearsome than a Hollywood agent, the laughs and screams start flying!

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My Name is Bruce Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


Image Entertainment presents My Name is Bruce with a hit-or-miss 1080p transfer, framed inside a 1.78:1 window. This is a nice looking transfer on the surface. It's a bit soft and somewhat lacking in its presentation of fine detail in places, but it looks nice for what it is. Black levels are fine, but not overly deep or natural, coming off as slightly too bright. The graveyard scene early in the film, for example, looks all right, but is definitely lacking in the finer nuances. Colors are pleasing and bright throughout, though like the rest of the film, maybe lacking that last bit of nuance to push it over the edge and into the realm of the upper-echelon transfers. Flesh tones, too, are sufficient but not perfect. Considering the low budget nature of the film and its intention on being a B-movie through and through, detail, blacks, colors, and flesh tones are about as good as one might expect. Unfortunately, the transfer sees a tremendous amount of heavy blocking and light banding all through the movie. It's distracting at best, and bordering on unwatchable for hardcore videophiles. Fortunately, the strength of the movie is enough to overcome this shortcoming, but it is definitely a major hindrance to the transfer. There is also quite a bit of noise over the image. My Name is Bruce could have looked worse considering the low budget nature of the production, but even as it stands, the transfer is mostly disappointing.

My Name is Bruce Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


The DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless soundtrack that accompanies My Name is Bruce manages to outclass the video presentation. This is by no means a fantastic mix, but it sounds good in all areas and offers no single glaring weakness. Dialogue is clear and robust, and music at times plays out almost like it is live, particularly the down-home acoustic Guan Di-focused folk song heard during various parts of the film. The entire soundstage is used to full effect during the action scenes with a fair amount of play from the subwoofer and rear channels. Gunshots are crisp and loud, not all that precise but fun. The track features some decent atmospherics, too; chapter seven, featuring Bruce's arrival in GoldLick, makes some good use ambient effects, including birds chirping, insects buzzing, and wind blowing. This is a blue-collar soundtrack that won't impress in any one area, but one that simply gets the job done to good effect.

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