Miss Sloane (2016)

[DavePS3]

I've said some of this in another thread but it deserves to be shouted...

Miss Sloane is whip-smart. So much so, that you cannot watch the film in a lazy brain mode. You have to be fully alert, willing to concentrate and prepared to be thrown into the middle of a world few of us would ever go. Right away, we are tossed into a scenario where we are treated like we are part of the team, rather than a slow burn where we peer in from a distance and wait for things to develop. This is a universe all on its own and we get to be part of it for close to two hours.

This is a woman I doubt any man would want to be involved with, not just because of her cold calculating personality but because the synapse of her mind... the sheer speed at which it fires on 12 cylinders is mind-blowingly unfathomable. Impressive? You have no idea. Riveting? Absolutely but make no mistake, you have to keep up with what's going on and more importantly, Chastain's character because she is a personality you'd fail at chess with every time. She isn't just smart, she is superior... she is literally 100 steps ahead of you in any situation.

The BluRay is outstanding in terms of picture quality. If someone had told me this was 4K, I would have believed it. I'm running the disc on a Samsung UBD-M9500 4K player onto a UN65J9500 curved 4K. Bear in mind I use different picture settings for BluRay as I do for 4K discs but with all BluRay's being on equal footing here, the disc looks top notch - 5 out of 5. Sound is tight, clear and no dialogue is lost in ether.

Miss Sloane is a must watch, no scrap that, it is a primal necessity for anyone interested in political thrillers, direction, cinematography, fans of Jessica C' or most importantly, script because this reminds me of works by David Mamet.

Like any film, it may not be everyone's cup of tea but to me, this piece of art should have won awards, big awards.