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Title: Just another dumb crime film.
Review: I found the main protagonist, and almost all the other characters, so unlikeable that it was hard to get into the film. I couldn't feel any empathy toward Carlton or care about what happened to him. It's the story of a large brutish thug who grows to become... a larger, more brutish thug. And there's really not much of a compelling story here, the conflict seems there only to set-piece moments of violence. There's no growth with these people, no one learns anything. It's kind of like watching a documentary about someone horrible, but with no narrator to provide subtext or to dig for deeper meaning you're left with watching this horrible guy do horrible things for two hours, which gets pretty boring.
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