Fri., Mar. 31, 2006 12:00 AM PST
With the "dirty South" finally being acknowledged as an important source of hip-hop music, it's about
time we got a youth movie set in Atlanta. Director Chris Robinson (
not the Black Crowes frontman who's also from Atlanta), captures the atmosphere of the urban South effectively and without the kind of broad caricature Georgia residents are used to from Hollywood.
Initially, the movie throws way too many names and characters at us, most of them played by unfamiliar faces, but as you settle into the groove of the thing, the story of two orphaned brothers--one a janitor (Tip "T.I." Harris) and the other an aspiring drug dealer (Evan Ross)--comes to the foreground. Though it's fun watching OutKast's Big Boi enjoy his role as the local crime boss, there isn't much plot until the end, which makes the closure feel forced. Perhaps an ongoing TV series might have been a better form for this drama.
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