The film embodies the story of middle-class youth, who are going to match boxing and win differently. Meanwhile, the men are caught in traffic as they take a shortcut to get there at those moments. The task began to turn on a different path as this leads to a tour with a vicious street gang led by Fallon.
Fallon's obsessive quest to eliminate witnesses comes to seem more and more like utter madness -- but then, maybe that's the point. It's hard to tell amidst the layered gunfire and random explosions.
The filmmakers have made a big deal of a soundtrack that features 10 collaborations between rappers and rockers (the theme is performed by De La Soul and Teenage Fan Club), but their casting consciousness is less adventurous.
A classy, edge of your seat thriller. Fun all round!
Variety
September 02, 2008
This is an exceedingly well directed, cleverly filmed and edited, tension-filled affair. It is also a wholly preposterous, muddled, paranoid view of the inner-city nightmare where the slightest misstep is sure to have a fateful result.
