Post by drystyx on Oct 31, 2018 17:00:51 GMT
I hate rap.
I love this film.
The "Ice" Men are willing to be humble with their rap in this film, for a greater cause.
We follow two groups of men in this film, one of them a gang of black drug dealers, the other one a pair of white firemen who come across a treasure map, with the real protagonist sliding in between them, an elderly homeless man who serves as the "Everyman" character for
black and white men alike.
The two "spurs" to the initial meeting in an abandoned area in East St. Louis, Illinois, are a penitent thief who commits suicide and gives the firemen the map to a building in East St. Louis, and an assassination of a drug dealer caught on camera, which leads the boss of the gang to invite the "hit man" to the same building. Drug kingpen "King James" wants to find out who the "snitch" in his gang is.
After that, things get out of hand, and King James forgets he has a snitch, who is almost certainly the most evil man in his gang, Savon, We never find out for sure, because by the end, nearly everyone is dead.
What makes this story come alive is the "Everyman" character known as "Brad Lee". He becomes the heart and soul of the story, although one of the firemen (played by Bill Paxton) and one of the gang (the one taking the videos) provide some empathy as well. It is Brad Lee, though, who we pull for throughout.
I won't do any spoilers, so suffice to say you have enough to go on here. I don't think it's a spoiler to say the snitch is almost surely Savon, because the film never reveals that, but anyone who has lived in the hood, among such creeps, knows he is the snitch.
A fascinating story. A bit of dark humor and high adventure in a film that the production team considered a remake of Bogie's classic TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.
I give this film the same rating as Sierra Madre. 10/10
I love this film.
The "Ice" Men are willing to be humble with their rap in this film, for a greater cause.
We follow two groups of men in this film, one of them a gang of black drug dealers, the other one a pair of white firemen who come across a treasure map, with the real protagonist sliding in between them, an elderly homeless man who serves as the "Everyman" character for
black and white men alike.
The two "spurs" to the initial meeting in an abandoned area in East St. Louis, Illinois, are a penitent thief who commits suicide and gives the firemen the map to a building in East St. Louis, and an assassination of a drug dealer caught on camera, which leads the boss of the gang to invite the "hit man" to the same building. Drug kingpen "King James" wants to find out who the "snitch" in his gang is.
After that, things get out of hand, and King James forgets he has a snitch, who is almost certainly the most evil man in his gang, Savon, We never find out for sure, because by the end, nearly everyone is dead.
What makes this story come alive is the "Everyman" character known as "Brad Lee". He becomes the heart and soul of the story, although one of the firemen (played by Bill Paxton) and one of the gang (the one taking the videos) provide some empathy as well. It is Brad Lee, though, who we pull for throughout.
I won't do any spoilers, so suffice to say you have enough to go on here. I don't think it's a spoiler to say the snitch is almost surely Savon, because the film never reveals that, but anyone who has lived in the hood, among such creeps, knows he is the snitch.
A fascinating story. A bit of dark humor and high adventure in a film that the production team considered a remake of Bogie's classic TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE.
I give this film the same rating as Sierra Madre. 10/10