Disliked this movie

Rating: 2/10 (2 July 2010)

I watched it all the way through. The cursing really got to me early on, so I turned the volume down but the subititles continued with the nonstop cursing. If you can try to 'ignore' all the vulgar speech which was not necessary but I guess today's audience expects it and finds it 'normal,' then you try and figure out the plot, which there isn't one. OK, so what if a bunch of people's lives intertwine - what is so special about that? That happens every day, pretty much everywhere. And the 'revelations' about racism, corruption, compromise, loneliness, desperation, crime - are not revelations at all. They have always been, and continue on.
I hate racism. I hate cursing. I hate crime and violence. But what I really didn't like about this movie is there was no cohesiveness. It was like someone emptied out a pile of toys from a toy box, and it fell into a huge mess, then you had to separate all the legos from the blocks, all the dolls from the GI Joes and army men, and it took forever. When you were done, you had these separate piles and threw them all back into the toy box. It was a waste of my time, and a waste of perfectly good actors' talents.
Too bad. Awful. I gave it a 2 because the actors were great. The story was a terrible nightmare.