Total waste of time

Rating: 1/10 (1 February 2003)

This movie serves an example of how "dark" movie can be bad. Not being able to focus in a single scenario flow, this movie takes turns and dazzles you with pointless rap all the time there is nothing that actors can tell you. Is this movie really a musical? I guess not, since it pretends to be more of a drama, and the music supposed to give you a background to the hard life scenes from the Detroit poor people. I wonder how much Ms. Basinger was paid to agree on such a stupid role, she can do much better than that. Eminem, as always, is better musician than actor.
I guess if this movie was shot, say, 15 years ago, it would be shown all over the former Soviet Union, just to show how life in US sucks, and prove that Russian people do live much better than that.
Of course, not being black makes you miss some important things in this movie, taking into account that around 90% of cast is black. However, the movie should be entertaining, or at least bearing some ideological point. I didn't find one here. I am happy I didn't have to pay a full ticket price too.