Not sure why this film received good reviews. The writing is amateurish, like that if a college freshman English major. Few of the characters have a unique, real voice. Almost everyone speaks like they have an Ivy-league education, despite the fact that everyone but the writer is poorly educated. A Brooklyn cigar-shop owner who quotes Shakespeare? A poor black inner city teenager from a broken family who speaks like a preppie fresh from vacation in the Hamptons? Totally unbelievable to the point it is impossible to think of these characters as anything but cardboard cutouts. The plot twists seem contrived, and are blandly predictable. This film comes off as fake and pretentious. Even talented acting can't save a terrible script.
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