Synopsis: Known as the wannabe-gangsta movie starring Justin Timberlake. This movie starts off showing a group of early 20-somethings hanging around a house where the leader of the posse, Lovegood, runs a drug and loan shark crew.Lovegood and his crew are all mouth and posers with their tattoos and guns, but when brought up against tough thugs they run scared. A skinhead-type guy who runs duties for Lovegood ends up being short on cash to pay back and ends up getting into a fight with him. In retaliation for not getting paid, Lovegood and his posse kidnap the former-crew member’s younger brother.
Taking the brother to another location the posse try and figure out what to do with him since the older brother and police are on their tail. They befriend the younger brother and keep him well-off in another location partying and such. As the police are called in and the parents find out that Lovegood and friends are responsible for the kidnapping and face life in prison, the posse freak out and try and find a way out. Unfortunately instead of letting the boy go, they end up killing him and the posse end up going to jail and destroying their and their families’ lives.
Comments: Standard movie popcorn fair, nothing shown in the movie was overtly interesting and dragged for the first hour and five minutes, and character’s behavior changed half-way through the movie making the tough guys weaklings and the weaklings into badasses. There are faux-interview scenes intercut in the movie with the parents of the people and I think did not make the movie flow as well. One thing I did note was Justin Timberlake has a very high-pitched voice in his normal tone.
Score: 2.5 out of 4 Monster Stars. Nicely shot, but the weak script and character development hampered this film.
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