DVD : 3/5 Rating : Sucker Free City

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IHMO REVIEW :
saw this movie yesterday as well - i was surprised and disappointed by this movie. by looking at the cover it looks pretty stupid / the title seems silly and the font used looks like a B-Rated movie.

with that said i only watched this sucker because it stated it's a Spike Lee joint. thought i'd give it a go. as i was watching it i was surprised that it was pretty good. the story wasn't too shabby, the characters were good and the overall cinemontography was good as well.

so i kept watching as they seemed to be setting up these characters for a confrontation. you got the white boy whose family has to move into the ghettos - the game member whose lived in the ghettos all his life and the chinese game member trying to move up in chinatown.

you can say the movie is a slice in time - and it does that well. you have these three strong characters all looking for something. you have these strong three characters about to meet due to various circumstances.

so you wait for it.... wait for it... and it becomes a let down. unlike crash this movie does very little with the interaction between it's characters. i wanted more. i wanted more from the confrontation / possible gang war as the black game moved into chinatown into their bootleg biz.

the movie seemed to have done great for a setup but then let me down when it did very little with the setup. overall it isn't bad, i was just hoping for more.