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Entertaining But Not Great, Read Before Voting, 2.5 Stars
I'm going to start off by saying overall Nelly's preformance was borderline terrible in this film (sorry teen suburb groupies) but this film was suprising in how it played it self out, and has been a movie that is sort of under the radar for films, even with a multi selling rapper in Nelly in the film. (rappers need to stop acting) The bases of the film is a conspiracy between Prolifik (Nelly) and a Record Executive. There are many twists and the layout is well thought out to a point, but when you back on it, you think lesser of it. Snipes has some realistic footage of the music business as in Street Teams and what not, but there is some unrealistic ways of life in this movie, and in some scenes where i felt actors did a horrible job of portraying there charachter, Nelly is playing a gangsta rapper, dude is softer then pillows, but suprised me in some parts with his acting, even though overall it was terrible. This movie is another occurence of coroprate America, living off of urban music, and there is a twist on that as the same thing happens in a film as a mob member invests his money into the hip hop scene and also naming a place "Kings Bridge" in the film taking of on "Queens Bridge" project houses, i notice the little things. I'm not going to get into the story to much as you have to see how it unfolds, it's clever in a way, but at the same time terrible in a way. This movie is weird and depending on how you take it, you may or may not enjoy it, i would compare this film to "Prison Song" because they both display terrible footage of life, that gets pushed to the next limit to where it's not so realistic, watch it sounds appealing to you, nothing ground breaking though. <
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>Director: Rich Murray <
>Writer(s): Rich Murray and Rob Wiser <
>Starring: Nelly, Sam Jones III, Zoe Saldana, Charlie Baltimore (Murder INC rapper) <
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>Layout: 6 of 10, well put together in parts, not so well in others <
>Story: 7 of 10, good story, realistic to a point <
>Acting: 5.5 of 10, some was good but overall weak acting

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Nelly is awesome
I think that this movie is very, very, good. All the actors are good specially Nelly, he can act. Through out the movie there's a lot of twists and you can't stop watching, it keeps you wanting to know what's gonna happen next. I really recommend this movie to everybody dispite what other people say, SNIPES is awesome.

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Dean Winters saves this one.
First of all, I despise Nelly. I think he's one of the worst mainstream rappers out there. The man can't rap and this movie shows that he can't act either. I really don't understand why all the other reviewers praise him as one of the best rappers to act in a film (but then again, none of the other reviewers even bothered to mention Winter's brilliant acting, so what do they know?).

I know that it sounds like I'm being unfair to Nelly just because I don't like his music, I actually tried the best I could to give him a chance. The fact is, the guy didn't show any emotion whatsoever, had the same exact facial expression throughout the entire movie, and used nothing but annoying slang words (which is really probably the writer's fault).

The movie, however, really suprised me. After watching the first ten minutes, I was just about ready to shut it off (it seemed like just another steriotypical hood movie that uses a bunch of slang words that anyone who doesn't watch MTV or BET won't understand), but I'm glad that i stayed around. The plot turned out to be great, with lots of twists and suprising swerves.

In my opinion, the best thing about this film was Dean Winters. I'm a huge fan of the hit HBO show Oz (His character, Ryan O'Reily, is actually my favorite prisoner on the show), and I only rented this because he was in it. Dean didn't disappoint either. He plays the arrogant, greedy, and selfish Bobby Starr perfectly. In fact, he's so good that it's almost impossible not to hate him. I'd also like to mention that there's a terrific deleted/extended scene with Bobby Starr and Johnnie Marandino, where Bobby furtherly tries to persuade Marandino to fund him for his rap company.

Overall, Snipes was a suprisingly good film. I give it a 7/10.