An average movie

I wasn't sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a nice cast, I still wanted to check it out. To start with, seriously, the opening was really pathetic. I had some issue to make out what was going on... Was it serious? Was it a joke? I mean, basically, you have this bunch of white kids (poorly) imitating some black gangsters, it was just barely bareable and the whole documentary thing made it even worse. Later on, it got a little bit better but they never really recovered from this dreadful start. Like I said before, there was a very interesting cast (Anne Hathaway, Bijou Phillips, Shiri Appleby, Michael Biehn, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Freddy Rodríguez, Laura San Giacomo, Alexis Dziena, Josh Peck) but even the usually very talented Joseph Gordon-Levitt was seriously ridiculous and the rest of the cast was not much better. I have to admit it, Anne Hathaway and Freddy Rodríguez had some moments and came over as some more genuine characters but even they didn't really convince me. I mean, it wasn't really awful, there were here and there some good ideas but they were poorly developped and I have seen better movies such as 'Thirteen' and 'Crazy/Beautiful' dealing with the same themes. To conclude, even though it is not a complete failure, it is still really average and I don't think it is really worth a look.

5/10