As mediocre as it is pretentious

Rating: 1/10 (17 June 2006)

I've seen better treatments of race and class in the first fifteen minutes of an average Law and Order episode (the original). This film is simplistic and obvious with all the nuance of a particularly embarrassing poem in a bad high school literary magazine. And to make things even worse, there's that awful portentous music: I kept on waiting to hear Enya start keening. Did this win because it makes people in LA feel like they live Somewhere? If issues of race and class weren't so important it would just be dreck edging on camp. As it is, it's a disgrace. Some of the acting is quite good but why would the actors agree to be in such a terrible movie?