Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Console best movie i've ever seen.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

James Devereux I've never been as emotionally struck by the heaviness of the drama as in this movie. It was an insight into a world of violence and depravity. I found myself stuck in conflict with my emotions of empathy and judgement towards the antagonists in the movie. I mouthed out loud WTF in one scene, that's how captivated I was by the movie.Thank you Aimee Lagos for making a movie that will change the way I view gang life in America, and thank you Kurt Farquhar for making a soundtrack that is inspiring and captures the emotional heaviness and depth of the movie. All critics of this movie who don't see the value this movie has towards teaching the ignorant world around this life and fates should think more than once about the message the movie manages to portray.Thumbs up!

Boba_Fett1138 This is the movie obviously made in the vein of an Alejandro González Iñárritu movie or a movie like "Crash" if you will. Problem however is that it's clearly a less clever or well written version of a Alejandro González Iñárritu movie, made with far less talented people involved as well.There is plenty wrong with this movie and its story and way of storytelling, so I don't even know where to begin really. But I do believe that the biggest problem is not even necessarily with its story but lies more with its characters. There is not one likely enough character in this movie, that you could ever start to care for. It's also because none of them ever get developed properly enough but also because most of them simply don't do anything likable at all in this movie. You just don't feel any sympathy or involved with any of them, which makes this a very distant movie to watch already.And no, it clearly doesn't help that the characters aren't played by the most talented actors. It actually shows how these type of movies can really benefit from a strong, all-star cast and how terribly uninteresting these sort of movies can work out, without an impressive cast.But there is also clearly plenty wrong with the story itself. It's just not connected very well or cleverly all. It doesn't feel organic in any way, which is also partly due to some poor dialog. It's all too forced and unlikely and not everything comes together very well, which also results in a pretty abrupt and unsatisfying ending.Also the constant switching around between 'past' and 'present' events in the movie is not balanced out too well. With this storytelling technique the two things should strengthen each other and add to the movie its tension or mystery but in this case it only mostly works out as redundant and even somewhat annoying. It sometimes spend too much time in the 'present' while not showing enough the events that led up to the movie its 'conflict', which already is a pretty ridicules, unlikely and poorly handled conflict to begin with. Some of the choices that some of the characters make in this movie just aren't very likely at all, which makes you feel even less involved with all of it.And yes, I'm probably still being too kind about this movie with my rating. I don't completely trash it because it's a smaller movie, with a small budget and with all some very average people involved. Still it's not really worth seeing, though at the same time it's also far from the worst thing you'll ever see.5/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

dwightfrost This movie has no morality and is a message of the lowest denominator playing to the worst racial stereotypes possible. The main character of the plot is this kid who is supposedly trying to do the right thing, good grades etc. while caught up in a crime displays no backbone and yet is shown to be a sympathetic subject by this plot. This movie has the worst message of cowardliness and self-involvement never leading the viewer into something that would justify any of the violence other than childish thrills of what gang life is from the furthest of actual events even shown in a newspaper, altogether a complete waste of time leaving me only somewhat angry for the experience and I can only condemn this movie in the most strongest manner that comes to mind.

jberger345 I was fortunate enough to catch this at SxSW a few weeks ago and it's continued to stick with me. I can see the obvious comparison to CRASH although it's a bit unfounded as this movie really didn't seem to be about race at all to me. It just felt like it was about four kids struggling to make their way. Four kids who were all searching for something. Sure their circumstances were different and so they were searching for different things, but what unified them was that they were all just looking to be accepted by their families or their peers. To me, that's a universal story and one that lots of people can relate to. Evan Ross and Brittany Snow gave really amazing performances - well beyond what we've seen of them previously and both stand out to me a real talents to watch. The movie isn't perfect and I'm sure some will find it to be on the nose, but that's only because so many people don't have the life experience to know that this is the way it goes. I've worked in a shelter for homeless youth for several years and the stories these kids tell me are not too dissimilar. I would encourage all of those who see the themes as stereotypical to get outside of their own box for 2 minutes and spend some time with those who will you give example after example of how the youth in this country still struggle with the same things as they did 10, 20, and 30 years ago.