Rating of
2/4
"Alpha Dog" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/23/12
The true life story of a young drug dealer who kidnaps the younger brother of a fellow gangster in order to make him pay his debts. As grim as that sounds, most of the film's light tone and constant frat style partying makes it look more like Almost Famous with wannabe gangsters. It is a promising premise for a gangster movie, but the script full of bored middle class white kids with nothing to do but get wasted and play at being hip hop style street criminals shows little insight as to how they became who they were, and the dialogue basically just constantly rearranges the words "suck", "my", "dick", "bitch" and "faggot". The bland performances all around also completely fall to draw you in, apart from Sharon Stone's turn as a kind of manic witch of the west in a fat suit which is just bizarre. The direction is lacklustre and photography just looks like a commercial for a travel agents. The result is a film that is guilty of exactly the kind of glamorization that it half-heartedly criticizes, and has a lot more in common with The Fast And The Furious than Goodfellas.
