I am much more impressed than I thought I would be after watching this movie. Judging from the previews, it looked like T.I. would be awful and the movie would just be "Boyz in the Hood" meets "Roll Bounce". T.I. actually did pretty well to just be an amateur. Big Boi stole the show with his portrayal of a drug dealer.
The only bad thing about movies like this is the fantasy they portray. There needs to be one of these movies that has a bad ending. The message in this movie would have been so much stronger if someone meaningful to the story were killed. I know that sounds harsh, but when young men watch this and think they can sell drugs and quit whenever they want and live to tell the story, we do them the greatest inconvenience we could possibly give.
The only bad thing about movies like this is the fantasy they portray. There needs to be one of these movies that has a bad ending. The message in this movie would have been so much stronger if someone meaningful to the story were killed. I know that sounds harsh, but when young men watch this and think they can sell drugs and quit whenever they want and live to tell the story, we do them the greatest inconvenience we could possibly give.