I actually liked and got into the first 15 minutes, the opening credits was really good. Then 20 minutes in we're at a white drug dealers house who does his own product and a customer leaves and these two guys are wondering why this particular customer is there, and gets out of the car and keeps looking back to make sure the customer doesn't see him (I presume). The problem with that is, they're at a house parked in the driveway. So either you would have to be blind not see this massive SUV parked in the driveway which is right by the front door or this scene just shows the downfall of the rest of the film.
30 minutes in they have this scene that lasts a minute but it was a dream where drugs were falling from on high upon the guy dreaming, and there's a television showing a man in a photograph, and it was a trippy scene. If more of the film was like the opening credits (though the opening credits was a montage of probably anti-drug documentaries) and the dream the guy had, and another trippy dream sequence 66 minutes in, I think this would be a better film. I mean, it's not that awful of a film but it's like it just doesn't go anywhere.
Really all this film is is two different gangs at war with the other with a lot of violence, some torture (mainly just in the first five minutes) and other minute things added to have the film move along. I understand the different aspects of the drug world but one doesn't necessarily have to put every little detail of it in a film. It makes the flow stagnant, incoherent, and ends up being nonsensical.
The acting isn't that bad. Some are good some you can tell they never acted before. The direction is fine, the script is okay, the music borders on excellent. It's like everything thrown up and coming down to hit one place but actually just lands in clumps around the mark. Overall, it's bad but not so bad. It has all the paint-by-numbers of a drug film. Two best friends and one is betrayed. Drug dealer who thinks he's god and invincible. Some secret drug dealer in the shadows revealed to be the guy you'd never suspect but perpetuates everything. Jealousy, manipulation, torture, violence, music montages, propaganda-preaching, and a buildup to a big finale. It has all of that, it's just they're individual and make the story run slow in how they are executed into the story. Not bad but definitely not that good. This actually could have been a fast-paced action film with intermittent dramatic scenes with the trippy dreams interspersed. But it's not. It's very slow running.
30 minutes in they have this scene that lasts a minute but it was a dream where drugs were falling from on high upon the guy dreaming, and there's a television showing a man in a photograph, and it was a trippy scene. If more of the film was like the opening credits (though the opening credits was a montage of probably anti-drug documentaries) and the dream the guy had, and another trippy dream sequence 66 minutes in, I think this would be a better film. I mean, it's not that awful of a film but it's like it just doesn't go anywhere.
Really all this film is is two different gangs at war with the other with a lot of violence, some torture (mainly just in the first five minutes) and other minute things added to have the film move along. I understand the different aspects of the drug world but one doesn't necessarily have to put every little detail of it in a film. It makes the flow stagnant, incoherent, and ends up being nonsensical.
The acting isn't that bad. Some are good some you can tell they never acted before. The direction is fine, the script is okay, the music borders on excellent. It's like everything thrown up and coming down to hit one place but actually just lands in clumps around the mark. Overall, it's bad but not so bad. It has all the paint-by-numbers of a drug film. Two best friends and one is betrayed. Drug dealer who thinks he's god and invincible. Some secret drug dealer in the shadows revealed to be the guy you'd never suspect but perpetuates everything. Jealousy, manipulation, torture, violence, music montages, propaganda-preaching, and a buildup to a big finale. It has all of that, it's just they're individual and make the story run slow in how they are executed into the story. Not bad but definitely not that good. This actually could have been a fast-paced action film with intermittent dramatic scenes with the trippy dreams interspersed. But it's not. It's very slow running.
