Set Up (Part 3)

by Edward Dunn

Normally, I would warn you about spoilers at the beginning of a review, but you can't spoil an egg salad sandwich, that's been sitting out by the radiator for 6 months.

This review took me a while to write. Last Friday, I locked myself in a room and listened to Get Rich or Die Tryin’ for 12 hours straight. Just kidding, that would be utterly ludicrous; those lyrics were committed to memory many years ago.

Department of Corrections

My favorite part of the movie
...is when it ended.

But really, when Sonny (50 Cent) visits William (Remar), (Vincent's  father) in prison, and says:

"Is there anything you want me to tell Vincent before I kill him?"
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Set Up (Part 2)

by Edward Dunn

Movie Intro: When I was younger, I wanted to be a priest. I was going into battle, to save man's soul from the evil of the world. But as I got older, I saw the world for what it really was. I wasn't so much who I was going to save, but what was going to save the world from me. As I lay there, gasping for my last breath, I knew God gave me a second chance, but I was too stupid to take it. I was gonna get what's mine.

This raised important theological and philosophical questions. A large chunk of the movie was spent exploring a wide array of existential questions. 

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