![]() It was most engaging, the characters were intelligent and believable (something NOT usually done very well these days) and the action was great! I genuinely feel that this film does pretty much EXACTLY what it sets out to do, and does it far better than most. I really liked this movie and I personally found it VERY fun and refreshing, especially with all the destructively stupid, extreme crap that Hollywood continually tries to force down our throats. If you wanna be bitchy about it, the last act probably COULD have been tightened up just a bit to give it more punch, but that is just a super MINOR thought, no biggie. It wasn't as bad as many films are in this area where you can't tell what the hell is going on, but for me personally, I think that if they had taken a BIT more of a classic, traditional approach (such as in the Carpenter film) and gone for just a TAD more of a pulled-back, classic, more moodily choreographed approach, just a BIT, and cut down a LITTLE on the tight, fast edited close action, I personally feel that that would have elevated this film almost to cult status. When their friend Cookie o.d.s, best buddies and musicians Spoon (Tupac Shakur) and Stretch (Tim Roth) decide its time to kick their drug habit by putting. Just a lil clip bout The Gridlockd movie, where 2Pac was acting. Probably the only slight thing that I would mention in my lowly and wretched opinion, and maybe this is just my personal preference, is that SOME of the action I felt was a bit heavy handed with the fast, quick edit stuff. All the 'Bullet Ballet' stuff (as another reviewer here mentioned) was done fairly well. So, all in all, I really found the movie to be very entertaining, not so over-the-top that it ruined it either character wise or otherwise. There was also a fair amount of rather clever humour that worked pretty well. I havent seen a lot of Tupac on screen, but just looking at his work as Spoon in this film, I feel like, had he lived, he would be a major talent in films. But, I thought that the way that the film makers portrayed him being a punk, but at the same time showing a believable, sympathetic side to him, was nicely balanced. I also really liked the guy they chose to play the 'Star' he was absolutely PERFECT! In a role like this, it would be so easy to screw it up by him being over-douchey and stupid. I honestly thought that his acting has greatly improved with this role. in THIS film, I actually felt that he came across far more 'REAL' as a person. I frigg'n LOVED 'Prison Break', but his acting was not even CLOSE to a highlight of that series (sorry man.) BUT. To me, this was by FAR the best performance of Dominic Purcell that I have EVER seen. ![]() This movie was a real blast! So many times films like this are usually pretty disappointing to me, mainly because producers always seem to go out of their way to ruin stories like this with over-the-top 'acting' and artificially pumped up stupidity (does that actually make sense.?) Anyway, one thing that I really liked about the film, in addition to it's great all over the place, were the surprisingly intelligent characters and particularly the way the interaction between the two main guys was done.
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