This movie despite Robert De Niro and Forest Whitaker just plain stunk!
My 5(0) cents worth about it: It actually started out pretty interesting. Maybe a bit stereo typed. Such police genre movies usually are and that usually doesn't make them any less entertaining. Throw in an A+ for female nudity. But then the movie took a turn for the worse. About the time you realize there is really something rotten with it. To a point past just boredom, past annoyance, into a nauseated grab for the remote to kill it ASAP.
The problem is unequivocally clear, 50 Cent's acting is just atrocious. The words: Horrible, lifeless, unbelievable, inhuman, stale, robotic and dry come to mind. He might be a successful rapper/entertainer, but an actor he ain't.
One of the worse scenes was when "Malo" went to shake down a rival thug. The stereotype hang the guy out the window by his feet type scene (that we've all seen at least three or four times already). It was plainly unbelievable and lifeless. And it was obvious they had to do some real creative editing for a few seconds in attempts to hide 50's horribly bad action performance.
While watching this movie a parallel between Elvis kept coming to mind. With all due respect to the King, his first few movies were great but look at the period when he was contracted to just crank them out. This movie is comparable to those, okay probably worse, I'd rather watch "Fun in Acapulco" five times over then finish watching this one just once.
Skip it unless you enjoy the sensations of projectile vomit and wanting to pluck your eyes out in disgust.
My 5(0) cents worth about it: It actually started out pretty interesting. Maybe a bit stereo typed. Such police genre movies usually are and that usually doesn't make them any less entertaining. Throw in an A+ for female nudity. But then the movie took a turn for the worse. About the time you realize there is really something rotten with it. To a point past just boredom, past annoyance, into a nauseated grab for the remote to kill it ASAP.
The problem is unequivocally clear, 50 Cent's acting is just atrocious. The words: Horrible, lifeless, unbelievable, inhuman, stale, robotic and dry come to mind. He might be a successful rapper/entertainer, but an actor he ain't.
One of the worse scenes was when "Malo" went to shake down a rival thug. The stereotype hang the guy out the window by his feet type scene (that we've all seen at least three or four times already). It was plainly unbelievable and lifeless. And it was obvious they had to do some real creative editing for a few seconds in attempts to hide 50's horribly bad action performance.
While watching this movie a parallel between Elvis kept coming to mind. With all due respect to the King, his first few movies were great but look at the period when he was contracted to just crank them out. This movie is comparable to those, okay probably worse, I'd rather watch "Fun in Acapulco" five times over then finish watching this one just once.
Skip it unless you enjoy the sensations of projectile vomit and wanting to pluck your eyes out in disgust.