Perfect cast and a good story

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Highly Overrated But Still Good

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

A group of friends become involved in a potentially deadly diamond heist. Poorly written and directed but also tries to sell copies from having Bruce Willis in it this terrible action film feels like a bad rip-off of heist films like 'The Town' and lacks the talent and the script that was needed to have and even the main actor described it as poor. Don't waste the time or the money into this film. (0/10)

This film begins with three friends in Detroit named "Vincent Long" (Ryan Phillippe), "Dave Hall" (Brett Granstaff) and "Sonny" (Curtis Jackson) setting out to ambush a car carrying a stash of diamonds. However, during the heist—and for no particular reason--Vincent shoots and kills the unarmed man carrying the diamonds and then fires his pistol at point-blank range at both Dave and Sonny before speeding away with the driver of the other vehicle. What Vincent doesn't realize, however, is that the bullet intended for Sonny was deflected by a crucifix he was wearing and upon recovering a minute later has filled him with a intense desire for revenge upon the man who betrayed him. To make matters even worse for Vincent is the fact that there are other parties interested in retrieving the diamonds and Sonny has further complicated things by getting the mob boss of Detroit named "Jack Biggs" (Bruce Willis) also involved. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that this was an okay film for the most part which could have been better with some added suspense or possibly a little more character development here and there. Be that as it may, while it wasn't a bad film necessarily, it wasn't nearly as good as it could have been and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Average.

This is quite possibly one of the best examples you could find of film making at its worst. I managed 35 minutes and the insult to my intelligence could not take anymore. How any of the seasoned actors (and there are a few) who appear in this did not question the shoddy dialogue is a mystery. At first I thought the sound recording was poor - then I realised that its just Curtis 'fiddy cent' s voice is completely monotone - when his mate gets shot, when he gets shot, when he's about to shoot somebody.... it's like he's reading aloud a menu at the drive thru. And whats with the Guy Ritchie stuff - the spinning freeze frame and the cartoon script - not to mention the scenarios pretty much exactly stolen from lock stock and snatch - very lazy. One scene I have to mention is a point where they hijack some Russian gangsters who are digging buried loot from a grave. 50 and another guy literally roll up in a truck, come to a halt, look out of the window and go - 'okay-there they are', then they run over and knock them out stealing the booty. Now I don't know about you, but if I was a professional mobster from Russia who had gone halfway around the world and carved a corrupt empire into a foreign country, I would not let two muppets driving a van into the middle of a cemetery at night with the radio blasting and headlights on 'sneak' up to 15 yards away, park, and then 'surprise' me. I imagine much of the 20million budget of this movie was spent hiring Bruce Willis for one afternoon so they could get his face on the poster.

I could use a lot more than 10,000 words telling you how bad this movie is, but I think I will focus on the worst parts to save time.3 friends from high school get together and commit crimes to support themselves and their families in "Detroit", a city so down on it's luck it can't afford police officers anymore. (Seriously...There is a 10 minute "chase scene" with gunfire through crowded malls and café's and never once do you hear a siren) After successfully completing a "5 million" dollar diamond heist, done in a crowded intersection and shooting up half the cars and buildings on the street in the process, one of the three happy high school comrades goes "Brutus" on his pals and shoots them both in the head. Err...Shoulders....killing one instantly (obviously. Shoulders are where criminals hearts are.)At this point "50 Cent", stumbles through 60 minutes of terrible dialogue and music, seeking vengeance, and casually dropping off corpses at a place where a weird guy grinds them into hamburger. (There should be one on every corner IMO.) At some point you learn that the "betrayer" killed his best friends because he wanted to pay a 100,000 dollar bribe to keep his deadbeat dad alive in prison. OH! By the way, he also has a sister who was the driver of the private car that they heisted at the beginning. (Shocker....you'd think his high school buddies would know her and recognize her...)Finally...The strange religious under-tones and random 1 on 1 therapy with the local priest...combined with the "random acts of kindness and charity" around every corner makes me feel like the movie is just Bible Thumper Propaganda.In the end...50 Cent drives off into the night in the most "unrecognizable/inconspicuous powder blue Classical car in the world" with 1 million in cash, after a diamond heist, a snatch and grab, a gun battle/foot chase, grinding up a corpse, buying drugs, arranging for an organized crime mass culling that he manages to just duck his head and run through. Yeah...At least he doesn't kill his friend! 50 cent be too good for that --- you feel me?