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It's Good, and It's Bad
Soluus - wrote on 01/24/2012
The movie looked like it had potential for black empowerment with a near-enough all-black cast. Obviously, since it was set in the ghetto it wasn't hard to assume what kind of stereotypes would appear, but I was hoping more than anything that this film would be both entertaining and have some redeeming social values. It really didn't, but that doesn't make it bad.
You have your stock of (black) characters: the main character, male, with financial and family problems who is searching for a solution to his woes; a hood rat with a ghetto attitude with a soft underbelly; an old man who's seen fifty years of life in that particular area; an warm-hearted African with a Lion King-/Disney-esque view of life; a vendor looking to sell off his goods by going from shop to shop; a conniving crook …
