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I thought the story was told in an unassuming, subtle and creative way. There was no agenda other than to tell a story about these few people. I loved it.
99% of the time when critics loves and raves about a movie, for me, it means.............AVOID AT ALL COST. The 1% is because it is an action movie and for some odd reason, critics likes it.
Just watched it via Netflix DVD last night. I came away thinking that it won the Oscar for best picture, because Brokeback Mountain didn't. Not that I saw BBM. I avoided watching it because the nature of the movie was hyped a lot before I had the first chance to see it. I wish someone had posted the true nature of the movie here before we sent for it. I might have still watched it eventually, when it is on cable and had nothing more I wanted to watch.
What I had heard beforehand was it is a movie about a young Black man growing up in Liberty City and, since I lived in the Miami are for a few years before the Liberty City riots(in the 80s) I wanted to see their take on it.
There are no heroes in this movie. The older man gives help and direction to a young man without a father. The older man is a drug dealer, however. When the young man points out to him the he is a drug dealer, the old man shrugs, and keeps doing his thing. It's no surprise that the main character goes on to become a drug dealer.
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I haven't seen this reboot but I liked the original with Cher.
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