I don't really understand the reviews praising it to the skies, not terrible but no one can say that it wasn't without it's flaws for sure.
The feeling in terms of look and acting is more or less of a 90's TV movie, the actual movie dabbles with a lot more psychologically darker elements though in the second half but I feel that it merely scratches the surface of that and doesn't really go down to the core of the issue and it just doesn't feel like a natural progress.
I can't really go into details without spoiling it but let's just say that you can't really complain about lack of character development because of that there's plenty, it just doesn't feel like it was handled in a realistic way the changes are pretty instantaneous.
Anyway, the movie also comes with a hip hop soundtrack which isn't all bad and nothing really screams hip hop like Adrien Brody with a ton of hair-gel making his hair stand in all directions and a snakeskin suit-jacket.
Or wait maybe it does, maybe Jon Seda in a Charlie Chaplin suit with a hat to match does?
Jokes aside, that is actual clothes that the characters wear casually in the movie and in the bonusmaterial Jon Seda says that the director (who's German) helped picking out the wardrobe and I'm thinking maybe that wasn't the best idea cause it gets distracting at times, they are supposed to be to guys from the hood (hence the hiphop soundtrack) and even though Seda manages to convey that regardless of what he's wearing Brody could have done with some Rocawear or something to make it seem legit.
Overall it does have some interesting turns for a romance but it doesn't quite hit it's mark... 5.4/10, very close to a 5.5/10 which would sway me into rounding it up to a 6 but like they say close but no cigar.
The feeling in terms of look and acting is more or less of a 90's TV movie, the actual movie dabbles with a lot more psychologically darker elements though in the second half but I feel that it merely scratches the surface of that and doesn't really go down to the core of the issue and it just doesn't feel like a natural progress.
I can't really go into details without spoiling it but let's just say that you can't really complain about lack of character development because of that there's plenty, it just doesn't feel like it was handled in a realistic way the changes are pretty instantaneous.
Anyway, the movie also comes with a hip hop soundtrack which isn't all bad and nothing really screams hip hop like Adrien Brody with a ton of hair-gel making his hair stand in all directions and a snakeskin suit-jacket.
Or wait maybe it does, maybe Jon Seda in a Charlie Chaplin suit with a hat to match does?
Jokes aside, that is actual clothes that the characters wear casually in the movie and in the bonusmaterial Jon Seda says that the director (who's German) helped picking out the wardrobe and I'm thinking maybe that wasn't the best idea cause it gets distracting at times, they are supposed to be to guys from the hood (hence the hiphop soundtrack) and even though Seda manages to convey that regardless of what he's wearing Brody could have done with some Rocawear or something to make it seem legit.
Overall it does have some interesting turns for a romance but it doesn't quite hit it's mark... 5.4/10, very close to a 5.5/10 which would sway me into rounding it up to a 6 but like they say close but no cigar.