Cut Throat City (2020) - 4.4
25 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Act 1 - 4.7

Act 2 - 4.5

Act 3 - 4.1

Movie tries to be a social commentary on how black people are always being screwed over

Nobody is like-able in the film

Feels like it's 3 hours long when it's only two

Film is so spread out among too many characters for no reason, spread to thin

Acting is mediocre to bad by almost all

Hawke and Howard both give decent performances

Nothing to recommend about the film

Animated opening credits with black people fighting Nazis, one of the guys made a graphic novel

Friend group of four guys, one getting married and Katrina is on the way

See the destruction that Katrina caused to NO, insane how bad it was

All the guys are down on their luck and in bad place financially

The friend who got married is trying to get published as he's an artist but nobody seems to think he's good enough

Government isn't helping the people struggling in the city after the disaster

James is upset with life, acting isn't the best

All the guys have big dreams

TI is pretty bad and is dialogue is pretty trash

Raccoon attacking the guys nuts was incredibly stupid

He gives them a job and they say this is the only job they are doing to help them financially

They successfully rob a casino but Andre is killed in the process

Fake cops were the ones trying to steal the money from the guys

Jackson Symms is big in town and wants this figured out and calls the head of crime, Lucinda

The guys have wasted most of the money trying to get out of the bad situation they caused

Eliza Gonzalez is trying to play a hard nose cop and it isn't good

Go back to TI and he's mad they didn't come back with the money the papers said they stole that they don't have, TI is bad

They fight off TI and his men and TI kills their dog

Snipes plays James's dad who they go to hide out at

Lucinda is starting to hone in on the case

TI is looking for them too

Guys starting to realize there was some sort of setup

They rob people at a casinos, need to get money to get their freedom back

Cop knows now that James is involved with all of this

Wife goes to see Symms looking for help for her family

Symms struggles with the idea of fighting corruption, doesn't know what to do

Father is disappointed with James, the guys leave

Lucinda warns James he is in serious trouble from a lot of people

No idea who I should be rooting for in the film as I don't like anybody, all bad people

The guys taken to the Saint, they want to go home and he says he can make that happen, Howard is good in the role

Everybody is fighting for power in this film

Hawke and Howard have a nice scene together, best in the film even though very small

Film transitions to sit down conversations, trying to say something important but I'm just super bored by it

Saint kills TI, guys safe to go home now as they set up TI and his guys with the poker chips

They get a second chance

Guys decide to rob a FEMA station now and kill a cop, these guys are unredeemable

Cops surround the building with them in it

Logic of our main characters in this film are infuriating, get a second lease on life and instantly blow it

All of James's friends are now dead

James won't drop bags and is shot because of it

Whole group is dead

After James's death it shows him selling his graphic novel, all apart of his story that he told Cut Throat City

Lucinda is there and is proud of his good choices

James has made it as an artist and storyteller, stupid that that last robbery didn't actually happen

Ends with wife and son meeting grandfather without James, confused by this ending
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