Some Great, Some Awful

Rating: 3/10 (10 February 2014)

This movie...I wanted to like it. Honest. There is much that is good, such as the costumes and attention to visual detail in background props. Also, it's fair to say performances are solid. No award winners here, but the actors didn't cause any issues. Music, however... I'm sorry. It sucked. The music was 80% modern rap and hip-hop, with 20% period instrumentation and style. Hip-hop sung as 20's jazz is still hip-hop. And it does NOT belong in a period piece. So not only did I hate the music now, but in just a few short years, this movie will have no relevance because the music will sound like it came from the 'teens. People watching this for the first time in 2022 (only 8 years from today) will feel how 2012-ish this music is. If you're doing a period piece, then use period music! Perhaps you have the Hot Young Stars of Today perform the music, but if you have a period piece, use period music! Please! Also, there were a series of car driving and car chase scenes that helped to blow the movie for me. The image doesn't sync up with the conversation at ALL. And in every driving scene the cars seem to be driving 100 mph (that's 161 kph for my friends in the rest of the world). The car scenes were so unrealistic, I would rather they didn't even show them at all. A block of text saying "car driving" and the dialogue voiced over would have been a great improvement. I wanted to like this movie. I really did. But it's pretty bad. Don't bother watching it.