I think the rating of 3.7 gives no sense at all, and that number smells more than negative reviews, because this was acceptable very viewable blacl american/italian mafia crime movie. By all means its not Denzel nor wll smith in the lead, and its far away from scarface and the godfather 123, but as a good and gracious stepson of them all its ready for more acclaim from the grumpy old man if the next sequels have the same calibre of swift and shock and awe executions.
The story though are pretty generic though, and the sound of the tradewinds of r&b and hiphop do stamp this as a black american product. Some of the cast doesnt leverage to the toplevel on some of the acting crew, and to muster about the technical side of the production, the use of light or overlight with ditto unecesarry horizontal wall shadows that trolls me all through the film is pretty amateuristic, and should be considered in the forthcoming productions.
The screenplay has some moments of time consuming svada inbetween that couldve been used to build the caracters but it doesnt.
Its like listening to a congressional debate about how much american federal wild-firefighters( officially called forestry technicians just to make their salary stay down in the basement while the firefighters of more state and private sources fights the fire in the presidential suite at a wage trippling the real guardians of the woods and wildland health and welfare) in the federal agencies should earn before slain by a widowmaker, but this was a digression, sorry...
well its a decent crime drama, so sit down and watch it, i think it deserves better than my limited english vocabulary can grant. So a recommend from the grumpy old man.
