Hate the Game (2004 Video) User Reviews (2)

FINAL CITY

[nogodnomasters · 4/10 · 26 July 2018]

This is an African-American attempt to do an indie style film where the characters are introduced then it shows their lives intermingle. The characters:

Jackson Jones -(Guy A. Fortt) A police officer who has his own rules.

Charles Pierce (Travis Johnson) He is Jackson Jones' partner and is disturbed by Jackson crossing the line.

Giovanni (Joey Napoli) He is a garbage collector who hangs out with friends who are criminals. He is concerned about his girlfriend Genesis (Kerrilee Kaski) who teaches at an all black school.

Botelli- Career ad exec who is educated and has a thug boyfriend who beats on her.

Cali- Owns an art gallery which fronts for a massage parlor.

Soul Walker- Drug Counselor.

JR (Hemmer Pascal)- Unlikeable record producer whose girlfriend is Brianna (Nema Kamar).

Vivian (Carol Carhuayano) character introduced as an after thought. She is a paralegal who also has a thug boyfriend.

The film then attempts to tie these stories together in what is called "Final City." It jumps around quite a bit and never really brings it home with a climax. Dialogue is bad and the characters we don't get know.

PARENTAL GUIDE: F-bomb, N-word, sex, no nudity.

A Very Different Film

[whpratt1 · 3/10 · 27 March 2007]

This is definitely a very low budget film, however, I did enjoy this film because it showed very clearly the lives of ten (10) different types of men and women with all kinds of problems that they all seem to have to deal with daily in the City of New York City. There are all kinds of people struggling to do their thing, whether drugs, sex, abusive boyfriends and policemen who want to take the law into their own hands and when you have ten different types you can get a clear picture of what goes on in most big cities. I would not recommend that anyone go out of his or her way to watch the film, but all the actors did an outstanding job and I applaud all the effort put into the making of this film. It has a crazy ending!