![]() MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, language throughout, some drug use and sexual contentĬast: Trey Songz, Jack Kesy, China Anne McClain, Chelle Ramos, Tanee McCall, Ron Killings, Fetty WapĬredits: Directed by John Pogue, script by Michael Finch, Karl Gajdusek Charles Murray. Solid presence, but Fetty Wap, who has a cameo as a gang leader, suggests more menace.Įx-child star McClain fails to get across any sense of the terror that is supposed to hit her character when she realizes letting an ex-con flirt with you has dire consequences.īut Kesy is scary and a bit crazy-eyed, wearing his tats and a grill and carrying himself like a rough customer fresh out of stir. Songz, seen in “Baggage Claim” and “Preacher’s Kid,” is still more of a singer than an actor. “You didn’t come up in this butcher shop like a dumb little lamb chop, didya?” To Sonny again, when what looks like the final showdown is going down “in the club.” To Sonny, sorely tested by Jake’s mayhem - “You in Hell yet?” With all this yacking between gritty New Orleans locations (hints of an accent pop out, here and there), the odd solid line emerges. “That could change,” he promises, shrugging off the “little mistake” that put him in the joint. But let Jake take a break from the throat slashing and shooting to play a game of pickup basketball. ![]() Let Jake steal Sonny’s vintage Buick Skylark (Again with the classic cars?). But Sonny lets Jake get in just close enough - to him, his ex-wife ( Tanee McCall) and the ex-wife’s sister Darcy ( China Anne McClain) - to drop the hammer on him. Everything seems hunky dory, despite the fact that Jake was the only one to do hard time. Jake gets out of prison, goes home to his racist family and insults Sonny (who has shown up to drive him home) in ways that maybe Sonny ought to see this coming. He wants a day, “tomorrow morning.” Because nobody, not even the cops in The Big Easy, feels much in the line of urgency. It’s so slow of foot that when Sonny, who has to cover up his involvement in that long-ago heist from his partner ( Joy Lofton), he doesn’t ask for minutes or hours head-start. ![]() And if they guy next to you wants to take you straight to Hell, you just ask, ‘ When do we leave?'” the hero, Sonny, narrates. “On these streets, all you’ve got is the guy next to you. “Thought I had friends I could rely on,” Jakes growls. Too many pauses for delivering a pithy observation. Marshals,” the “Rollerball” remake) moved along, “Blood Brother” does not. ![]() In any event, that wasn’t a movie that had much in the line of pace to recommend it, and while Pogue’s writing credits (“U.S. Or maybe it was the Triumph TR6 that played into the period piece’s plot that stuck with me (used to own one). I rather liked writer-turned-director John Pogue’s “The Quiet Ones.” That must have been due to Oren Moverman’s script. What might have been a lean little crime-spree thriller of the “This time’s it’s PERSONAL” variety is talked and (slowly) walked to death. And while he’s at it, he’s going to talk. He’s done his time, and really, 15 years for committing his first murder, as a teen? He got off easy.īut Jake is back to take out the guys in his teen gang, a man with “demons” determined that his “blood brother” Sonny go “through hell” just as he has. That’s Jack Kesy’s character, the psychopathic ex-con Jake, in a nutshell - once a “blood brother” to his fellow teen hoodlum Sonny ( Trey Songz), now an ex-con, just freed from prison all set up to live on the take from an armored car robbery he and his mates stumbled into as teens. You know those thrillers where the bad guys talks a lot? Too much? Like, constantly? ![]()
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