Heartbreaking, unpredictable and shockingly real

Rating: 9/10 (14 November 2010)

I want to start by saying that this was never on my list of films I needed to see before I die, and yet in hindsight I feel that it should have been. It has a great deal to say about modern racism in a number of forms. The writing is excellent, I really do feel that its Oscars were well deserved. The film puts across a number of really interesting points which you begin to realise- with horror- that most, if not all of them are very much real. I loved Don Cheadle, as always, as well as Brendan Fraser, but I must say that the show is stolen by Matt Dillon, who's heartbreakingly tragic character is the portrait of the modern-day working class white urban American white man. At times I felt I knew where the film was going, but it twists completely around to shock yet again. And the mixture of sad and happy endings will satisfy and shock.