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Title: Not that great .... Dark, Gloomy, Depressive and Joyless,
Review: Be warned: this is a rather dark, gloomy, joyless and almost depressive look at race relations in America or to be accurate mainly LA. It takes a pretentious all knowing perspective but in actual fact has a rather limited view of human nature. The main point this film tries to make is an old one, namely that everybody, white, black or brown harbors and operates with their own set of racial or ethnic prejudices. The film however overstates its case to the limit so that almost no single character in the film except a 5 year old girl comes out unscathed. In its dark treatment of LA street crime and the police force it is mainly derivative, bringing to mind countless other better films: LA Confidential, Training Day, Collateral .. to name a few.
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