Michael Bass

I recommend this film for that uses American cultural division and cultural appropriation to depict a side of contemporary black American culture and its concerns for brother against brother gang war and eye for an eye killings. Because we are now familiar with the cowboy genre, as set up by Quinton Tarrintino in Django and Hamilton the musical, the audience can accept the mirrored gang on gang scenario and use of contemporary music and song to tell this tale in a creative way. I was also impressed by the lighting, costumes and gold pistols to highlight the bling factor.

Its a stage show put to screen in the vien of the Greatest Showman but it fails to grab the audience from the start. It takes too long to care for any of the characters before they break into a song triggered by a mysterious package we are teased for another 10 minutes before it's opened. If we cared about anybody, by allowing a little character development, it might be worth the journey...it's okay for the stage but film needs more audience investment.