![]() When the ransom demand includes $100,000, O2 and Coco go on a Bonnie and Clyde expedition, ripping off banks in broad daylight. Willing to help him because her suits were stolen in the process of looking for clues, Coco needs O2 for protection from her hustling boss, who wants his money from the stolen suits. Thinking Coco set him up, O2 initially forces her to help him find his son but then backs off when she convinces she wasn’t involved. Before you know it, O2 gets carjacked with Junior in the back of the car. While staring at a beautiful sister while driving, Coco (Good) comes up to O2 to convince him to buy some top of the line suits from her. Reluctantly leaving his new job because his cousin failed to pick up his son, recently paroled O2 (Tyrese) races to get Junior from school. Unfortunately, what started out as an intriguing wrong place, wrong time scenario turned up to be the same old film we have seen before with nothing new to add to the genre. Well, leave it up to Director Vondie Curtis-Hall to resurrect the genre and try to ignite some fire with his latest film, Waist Deep. While violence still plays out in reality, its time on the big screen has had its day gone. Then the genre faded away and then came the romantic comedies (The Best Man, Two Can Play That Game, etc) and biopics (Ali, Ray). To some degree, these films represented the way of life that some folks live, and the liberties taken in some films weren’t that far off from reality. We’ve had our fair share of “New Jack City”, Boyz N The Hood”, “Menace II Society”, and countless others. There was a time in the 1990s when Hollywood was throwing their support to the black community and bringing a number of “hood” flicks to theaters. Holmes, Jon Rosenberg, Michael WeberĬast: Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, Arnold Vosloo, The Game, Paul Terrell Clayton Producers: A.Demitrius Brown, Ted Field, Preston L.
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