Overrated - Way too many characters, little depth, no flashbacks!

Rating: 7/10 (5 November 2007)

As my wife and I tried to stay awake towards the end of the movie, I just kept seeing more characters brought on screen and then never utilized. While the movie is slick and professional, it is only watchable in 20 minute segments. As a whole, it is a fractured mess of bits and pieces that never gel together.
What the movie really needed was flashbacks. Perhaps if the movie was told on the last day of his getting out of jail, with flashbacks of his youth, his early days with Bumpy where he learned his craft, then we could appreciate it later. But, the movie missed the mark for me, with no explanation of motivation for any characters except greed. Hard to believe there were so many nice people that were willing to deal death on the streets...
I just did not see this as a great movie and would never watch it a second time. 7/10.