Review by Jake

Release Date: June 23rd

Tagline: His son. His life. His freedom. He’s taking them all back.

Synopsis: An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside. (IMDb.com)

Trailer Review: Interesting story line. Tyrese, whose character name is “(the letter)O2″, is a recent parolee. He gets car jacked, with his son inside the car. His son’s name is, and I am not making this up, Junior. Junior? Seriously. Anyways, a bad guy by the name of Meat (did you expect anything better, I mean look at the other character’s names) gets the kid from the carjacker and ransoms him back to Tyrese for $100k. So Tyrese and a female con artist by the name of Coco (Wow.) rob some banks to get the money. The trailer shows some car chases, a few fights, a few gun fights, and some pretty real life gang war moments. Believe me, its not the Jets and the Sharks squaring off. And don’t even ask if there is any dancing or snapping fingers. More like snapping AK-47s at each other.

Trailer Verdict: I enjoyed the preview. With, of course, the exception of the character names. And the one white guy I saw in the preview. He was portrayed as an idiot, asking the bank robbers for their autographs after calling them the “modern day Bonnie & Clyde.” If I was a white guy working a gas station in the ghetto, and a pair of bank robbers that I recognized from TV came in to my store, I sure wouldn’t point out that I KNOW they are bank robbers, let alone ask for an autograph. I had to double check and make sure Spike Lee wasn’t directing the movie.

Movie Verdict: Not 100% sure. It will either be a decent, see in theaters movie, or it will be a movie not worth unwrapping if given as a gift. I am going to say that it has potential, but it will run against Click, also released June 23. I am always sceptical of any movie that has a Synopsis as short as its Tagline.

Trailer: www.Apple.Com

Plugs: 0 (That is a first)

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