Billy Bob Thorton’s work in Sling Blade was outstanding. This is true- he did it all in this movie. He portrayed a ton of emotion and he made the movie work… thoroughly. Slingblade is about Karl Childers, a man that did something terrible. Really terrible. He was sent to the insane asylum and locked away there until he was released years later. After he gets released he befriends Frank Wheatley, a small boy who is in a bad situation at home where his mom gets beaten her boyfriend. So this reminds Karl of his nightmare past and he struggles to stay true and good and do the right thing while balancing new relationships with Frank and his mom and the people around the town.

The movie itself is a great movie. When it came out in theatres I was expecting one thing and I came away amazed at the content of the movie and the job that Thorton did. That said… Blu Ray… I don’t understand the big deal of this movie in particular in Blu-Ray.

Look there’s a lot of darkness in the color of this movie. It’s all something that was shot in that lower range of lenses and thus doesn’t really look bright and vibrant… it looks bland and dark. How it’s supposed to look even on Blu-Ray. The sound is very much improved from the DVD version of this but nothing really remarkable makes this movie different watching it on Blu-Ray and then watching it on DVD.

Even the bonus features are the same… there’s nothing really added to this movie that you can’t see on the DVD . So if you like this movie and you don’t already have it… buy it on Blu-Ray. If you have this movie on DVD, you’re probably safe keeping that version.