Okay, so I'm walking through Family Video looking for a movie and I see a Morgan Freeman movie! I'm a fan of his... I think I'll check it out. Mr Freeman has a total of about 20 lines in this movie, in his 10 minutes on screen at the end. I guess if you like gang-related movies and don't mind a reeeeeeeeeeeally slow moving movie, you might sit through the whole thing. Unfortunately, I can comprehend dialog a little faster than this movie drips it. Overall, the acting is very poor, the pace super slow, camera work looks like amateur, and the lack of Morgan in an advertised Morgan Freeman movie is incredible. If you bought this movie, you should give credit to the advertising agency that took your cash.

"Sometimes first instincts are wrong"I walked into a Blockbuster with my mom & we saw Morgan Freeman's face taking up most of the cover of this one. I believed that the rule of movie covers is that actors with more than 5 minutes of on screen time have their pictures placed on the cover. I think about that twice now when I rent a movie. My mom loves Morgan & I thought he was awesome in "The Shawshank Redemption" & "Bruce Almighty" but I was a little skeptical about this one. Straight to video movies are tricky that way. To this day I have no idea what the point to this movie was or why Morgan Freeman even bothered being in the biggest waste of celluloid since "Manos: The Hands of Fate". Perhaps he did it as a favor. Basically all he does is put his head against a doll he's holding & fail to convince a guy to come out of his apartment. I wonder how much they paid him to do that? I could do that. There was violence in this "film" but no blood. How can that be explained? A little girl was sitting at the top of a slide, got shot, & slid down the slide dead. There was no bullet hole & there was no blood streaked down the slide. A guy was stabbed in prison, & there was no blood on whatever it was that stabbed him (can't remember) & no blood on his orange jumper. Another guy shot himself in the head. No blood & his funeral was open casket. 1st of all, I thought that when someone gets shot in the head, they can't have an open casket funeral. I might be wrong but that would be gross. 2nd of all, if they decided to sew that area shut (which wouldn't make a bit of sense but then again this movie didn't make sense) his face still would've been a mangled mess. The complete absence of blood in a movie rated "R" for violence & other stuff wasn't even the worst of it. The dialogue was horrible & I couldn't even understand what was being said most of the time. It could've been the crappy sound or the actors mumbling through their lines. If you want to be a filmmaker or an actor, take a look at this & "Manos" to see how a movie shouldn't be done. 0/10

Wow. When I rented this movie, I knew that it might be bad, but I never expected a train wreck like this. It's not so much that the script was boring, but the way the movie was executed was somewhat bizarre. People's behavior (the police's in particular) just didn't make much sense. I expected a certain level of quality given that the movie included Morgan Freeman, but I was unpleasantly surprised. His character wasn't particularly interesting or important. I have a suspicion that in the original script, Lieutenant Redding was a very minor character, but when they landed Morgan Freeman the Lieutenant was given more face time, though no more relevance. If you watch the trailer, it appears that the movie is centered on him. As it turns out, the plot and outcome of the movie would be the same if his character had never existed.

I was amazed by the negative comments and votes this film got from other IMDB viewers.. It may be an issue with the expectations raised by trailers or advertising in the US, I do not know. Having rented the movie on DVD, I was not disappointed by seeing it, and will not ask for the money or time back. The only minus of this film is the thinness - too short (80 minutes) for an usual length movie. However, the format of pseudo-docu-drama fits the time, and fits the subject of violence in the US cities, and among the young generation and hopeless life of certain Afro-American social categories. The film is also in line with the rap-style art, quite hot among the young ones nowadays. I liked the movie, and despite the fact that I would have liked Morgan Freeman to have a more consistent role, I do not think that he needs to be ashamed to have his name associated with this film. 7 out of 10 on my personal scale.