Excessive glorification of an awful violence. Waste of Celluloid.

Rating: 1/10 (28 January 2002)

I can understand when a movie wants to give you a "real picture", I can understand when they try to make a point. But - all this film was glorify, glorify, and glorify this god awful inner city world.
If anything was trying to be said, it was lost because in each and every scene, the film tried to outdo the shock and hard hitting nature of the previous scene. Sure its only a story, sure its supposed to be intense, but was it? Really? By the time the three wise men came about, everyone in my row had figured out that Jay was going to stop Alonzo from making his million dollar restitution, and voila, what do you know, a lot of machine guns, turn Alonzo into a sieve to the sweet accompaniment of a Russian soundtrack. Justice? Vindication? You can't be serious!