Awful brainless script in attempt at provocation; schmaltz

Rating: 3/10 (12 September 2005)

I had high hopes for this movie, but it quickly degenerates into a mess. First off, filmmakers if you're reading, STOP WITH THE SINGLE FEMALE (or male) SOLO SINGING SOUNDTRACKS MASQUERADING AS Provocative; its cheap, fake, and obviously placed! It knocked down Lord of the Rings, and Man on Fire. It is a disgrace to cinema. There's no provocation or emotion just a pure cop-out...."Let's make this image spiritual by stamping it with solo singing." The effect distracts and detracts from the images!! Trying to create some sort of emotional connection is pathetically contrived. Its complete pretentiousness and lack of creativity. Most of these stories are contrived with un-intelligence to the nth degree.......About 90% of the script depicts some sort of racial friction, as if that's all the characters ever think about....do you want to continually get bombarded with preoccupation with racial lines of all characters contrived as 100% confused ethnocentric and then each character with near religious experiences showing how ignorant each is? This movie is awful in how the characters are so contrived as puppets for the writers. Totally unbelievable and shallow. The best cast in the world could not save this picture which is to say the cast did a pretty good job despite the garbage they had to spew out.