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very gritty bite of vice
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APR
28
2008
It had to be good, you knew that long before it was released. Denzel and Russell would both have to be ill and hungover(at the same time) for this to be a bad movie.
It is sometimes hard to watch, violent, sometimes too real but never boring. Denzel and Russell were both brilliant in very different ways and different roles. The violence or maybe I should say the casual attitude to violence, was on one level necessary to emphasize the world these characters lived in. The really scary thing, was that it was based on a true story. Those of us who live the "normal" lives of "ordinary" people cannot envisage or feel the knife edge exsistance of the lives in this film.
Award worthy acting but I'll admit it isn't for everyone.
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