Bumpy's legacy...

Rating: 7/10 (13 March 2008)

An OK movie, considering the cast and the budget...gets a little off-center attempting to cover the time period therefore it seems to get off the tracks somewhat...The important 'supporting' characters could have been explored more versus several characters that make appearances then disappear without any explanation...The same thing goes for the procedures involved in all the key elements (ie. the crooked cops, the smuggling operation, the distribution, etc)....There's a lot of setup info that just gets lost somewhere. How does this elaborate operation 'really get going?...How does Frank get into US occupied Asia, (during a war raging) and make a major drug deal that requires the efforts of numerous uniformed personnel without any resistance or covert operation?...It's as if he never leaves Harlem and is dealing with a close knot group of friends. The huge setup of Richie's partner is a dead end that really ends up without any point (other than 'you can get hooked on narcotics and abuse authority'...duh) Even the main characters' lives get a little lost and we aren't told what really happens (ie. Richie's son & wife?)... The worst of all is the 'Special Detective'...Everyone like to see someone get what they deserve...we aren't even given the satisfaction of seeing this piece of crap 'get his due'...instead, like so many other movies, we end up with subtitles, done in post production, ending the movie for us...I would have liked to have seen a bit more supporting character development...(the important supporting characters, such as Frank's close family)...We just don't get enough in the length of time taken...