Non-Authentic Gangster

Rating: 3/10 (8 November 2007)

Plot line: 1) Small time thug makes it big within a crime family (which the movie doesn't explain, the audience is just supposed to accept this- wouldn't other top guys in the family have an issue with the driver being the new lead? I think so) 2) Gets involved with drugs 3) Makes a lot of money from drugs 4) Has a beauty queen wife (oh my god, she almost got caught in an attempted hit on her Mafioso husband! No way! What an interesting, ground-breaking twist!) 5) Gets caught by the most stereotypical cop in film today (bad father, womanizer, the cop with a conscience) Anyone seen this before? Go to Netflix and look at the "Crime drama" category, and there's an endless list of films that follow this same plot line, but are much much better.
The movie had way too many loose ends and unfinished details that the audience can usually deal with, but not when there are so many (ex. How does Lucas always seem to catch his guy in Bangkok right by the phone, twice in a crowded bar, and once in a massage parlor, every time he calls?). There are so many other examples of these unrealistic, at first annoying, but by the end film-ruining, instances if you'd like more.
If people weren't praising this film as Oscar worthy, I would say that it's on OK film. But because people seem to be so taken by it, the film is that much worse.
It's Blow for black people, with worse acting, casting, plot lines, suspense, and dialog. I would rather chew a foot off than see this movie again.