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?"
"Is there anything you want me to tell Vincent before I kill him?"
Vincent was bribing the warden, until he could no longer afford to do so, William was a snitch, so things ended poorly for him. Toward the end, William, is killed with an enormous prison shank; right after he was integrated back into 'general pop'.
Sonny and Biggs Set Up a deal
"I knew Biggs was on my trail. You don’t take 2 million dollars from a guy like that, and expect him to forget about it."
-Sonny
Biggs (Willis) runs this town, it's important you remember that. Bruce Willis sees dead people and you are one of them. His character is like the one from The Whole 9/10 Yards.
Biggs: Russians found out about it and chopped both his legs off with an ax, but they never found the money. His family buried it with him.
50: Well I ain't diggin’ up no more fuckin' bodies.
Biggs: Shut the fuck up. I don't want you to dig anyone up. The Russians found out where the money is. They're going to take out of the ground tonight and your going to take it from them.
50: What's in it for me?
Biggs: Very few men know the exact value of their life. Now you know what yours is worth: 2 million dollars. Just to make sure to bring that money back to me.
The Climax
(50 instructs Vincent to dig his own grave, and yes, he is actually digging.)
50: Make sure it's deep, so your comfortable...
50: We're family-we're brothers. You, me and Dave...
50: Make peace with God, not me...
Vincent: Man, fuck Dave...
(50 shoots him in the leg.)
50: You fuckin' shoot me and leave me for dead...
50: We're not the same, your fuckin' pathetic.
Vincent: I had no choice. I was in over my head. I needed all the money, they were going to kill my father...
(Sonny drives off.)
(I condensed the dialogue there a bit.)
"A man once said an eye for an eye makes everything blind. As I was not my brother's keeper, neither was I his killer. I could live with the fact that Vincent was still alive. The question was, could he?"
-Sonny (Movie Ending)
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Scream murder! (I don't believe you!) |
The music and movies Diddy ‘Fiddy’ has produced—are not meant to reflect his real life. He adopts a fictional persona to entertain an audience, so his works shouldn't be taking too seriously. After all, Curtis Jackson isn't like this in real life; just like John Wayne, off camera, he was not some angry, surly drunk.
It's easy to make fun of straight-to-video movies, but this movie has Bruce Willis, and Ryan Phillippe. There was an actual theatrical trailer. At some point, someone decided the movie would be unprofitable, but you can't just scrap a movie with a $22,000,000 dollar budget. So today (September 20th) you can buy this film on DVD and Blu-Ray, I don’t recommend doing so.
Set Up is 50 Cent's worth of entertainment.
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Final Verdict: 25 out of 100.