It is as though you are watching an extended version of
Police, Camera Action with a little of The Thin Blue Line thrown in for a
comedic twist (obviously not as a good as The Thin Blue Line, but a couple of genuine
Laugh Out Loud moments) with the copycat autuership of Crash to try and
Hollywoodize it under the guise of being too artistic for Hollywood and therefore
bordering the line of an alternative indy flick… utter bollocks.
It could be argued (and probably successfully) that this
film is as pointless as Crash and that was an extremely pointless film. Yes there is an attempt at some flimsy plot about
gangs, but before you even watched it you know its set in South East LA and
therefore it will be about gangs. The ending is predictable and gratuitously cashes
in on emotions.
The cast did spend 5 months with the LAPD which has resulted
in it virtually being a documentary, so why not just make a documentary? Oh
yeah it wouldn’t make loads of money and be in the running for Oscars.
The only good bit of acting was when the cop car runs into
the back of the van and the expression and reaction by the actors is Oscar
worthy… you know why? Because it
happened for real and wasn’t in the “script”.
Go watch if you like annoying girls that make you want to
grind your teeth, guns and films that are redundant.
