James Devereux I've never been as emotionally struck by the heaviness of the drama as in this movie. It was an insight into a world of violence and depravity. I found myself stuck in conflict with my emotions of empathy and judgement towards the antagonists in the movie. I mouthed out loud WTF in one scene, that's how captivated I was by the movie.Thank you Aimee Lagos for making a movie that will change the way I view gang life in America, and thank you Kurt Farquhar for making a soundtrack that is inspiring and captures the emotional heaviness and depth of the movie. All critics of this movie who don't see the value this movie has towards teaching the ignorant world around this life and fates should think more than once about the message the movie manages to portray.Thumbs up!

Boba_Fett1138 This is the movie obviously made in the vein of an Alejandro González Iñárritu movie or a movie like "Crash" if you will. Problem however is that it's clearly a less clever or well written version of a Alejandro González Iñárritu movie, made with far less talented people involved as well.There is plenty wrong with this movie and its story and way of storytelling, so I don't even know where to begin really. But I do believe that the biggest problem is not even necessarily with its story but lies more with its characters. There is not one likely enough character in this movie, that you could ever start to care for. It's also because none of them ever get developed properly enough but also because most of them simply don't do anything likable at all in this movie. You just don't feel any sympathy or involved with any of them, which makes this a very distant movie to watch already.And no, it clearly doesn't help that the characters aren't played by the most talented actors. It actually shows how these type of movies can really benefit from a strong, all-star cast and how terribly uninteresting these sort of movies can work out, without an impressive cast.But there is also clearly plenty wrong with the story itself. It's just not connected very well or cleverly all. It doesn't feel organic in any way, which is also partly due to some poor dialog. It's all too forced and unlikely and not everything comes together very well, which also results in a pretty abrupt and unsatisfying ending.Also the constant switching around between 'past' and 'present' events in the movie is not balanced out too well. With this storytelling technique the two things should strengthen each other and add to the movie its tension or mystery but in this case it only mostly works out as redundant and even somewhat annoying. It sometimes spend too much time in the 'present' while not showing enough the events that led up to the movie its 'conflict', which already is a pretty ridicules, unlikely and poorly handled conflict to begin with. Some of the choices that some of the characters make in this movie just aren't very likely at all, which makes you feel even less involved with all of it.And yes, I'm probably still being too kind about this movie with my rating. I don't completely trash it because it's a smaller movie, with a small budget and with all some very average people involved. Still it's not really worth seeing, though at the same time it's also far from the worst thing you'll ever see.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

p_imdb-238-926380 What's wrong with the ratings these days?96 minutes is a failed attempt to make a film.What you should expect: Ridiculous character behavior, Clichés all over the place, Repeats, artificial drama, bad soundtrack.If you would like to see a film using this approach of story telling, go and take a look at Crash 2004. Did the producers actually think about the audience? People go the movies to enjoy their time, pay money and then they get this? This garbage. This movie is not entertaining, which is OK, if it at least would have other values, something like a message etc. But no, it doesn't have anything which hasn't already been shown or said in a better way. This one is just a waste of time and as always, don't believe the ratings, this one will end up at 4/10.I gave it a 1/10 because I wanted my time back after seeing this, the worst thing which can happen to a film.

frednmel07 I did not like this movie at all. The screenplay was horrible, and the acting was even worse. I am gonna tell everyone i know not to watch this movie. Whoever wrote and directed this movie must be fresh out of film school. It just plain sucked. From beginning to end. It was in the 5 worst movies of all time. The character Kevin was the worst. Dre was next. And Carly was third. Why did Dre listen to the little dumb white boy. Why didn't Carly tell the guy that found her about her friend? This was just poorly written and i hope Aimee Lagos doesn't do anymore movies anytime soon. Thank you very much for wasting my time. And what was the scene about when the uncle called the nephew on his cell phone? If he had a phone why didn't he call the cops? And what was the scene about in the jail cell at the end. It just showed a white screen outside the cell window. Direction was horrible as well.