beerhug The year is 2012 and I have just completed watching this movie. To be honest I think this is one of the few movies where I saw some intense stuff from Cuba Gooding Jr. however I feel the antagonist could have been a little more satirical and Joseph Gordon was simply wasted in this film. Mirren did OK and the lady love Vanessa Ferlito was expressionless however the plot was interesting.When the question comes to execution this movie is somewhat derailed despite the futile effort of the director, I guess it shows the weakness in the script. What if is the biggest question in this movie's execution. What if the scene was executed in this manner, what if the actor executed the dialogue in this manner and stuff like that. I guess we will know now.One of the biggest disappoint was Mo'nique's role and yet it is one of the better executed role. I guess in Hollywood African American women aren't provided much chance to express their talent again it is a loss to the cinema.On a scale of ten I rate this one 6

pik923 Released in 2005, knowing now how Lee Daniels loves that edgy dark mysterious weird violent, sexual tones of film making, and with a great solid cast, I really loved this film! A solid thriller, hats off to Helen Mirren willing to take on such a controversial and sexy role! It shows the range of her abilities and willing to take chances! Besides all of that - I love the score. The music is great! Adding a very sensuous quality to a rather sexual (I don't find the film except in a few scenes with Helen and Cuba to be on the sensuous side) script.I appreciate some of the images Lee Daniels achieves especially in the opening sequences. The film is an expression of many talents. If you enjoy edge strange weird sexual violent off the wall entertainment, coming from a very interesting new talent (Lee Daniels) and if you are a fan of Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding, other members of the cast - watch this film. Do remember there are some disturbingly violent moments in the film, and some sexual moments that are a bit tough too. But don't let that interfere with your decision.

KineticSeoul The pool table scene gave me hope that this would be a decent movie, but sad to say it did not fit my expectations. The story basically a hit man who goes around killing people, takes on a job to kill the mob leader's wife and the client is the husband. And while trying to kill the wife, the grandma who Cuba Gooding Jr has a affair with tries to stop him even if she was cool with a lot of his past kills, this one didn't sit right with her cause the women they were trying to kill is pregnant. The grandma who was a lady during the flashback is a contract killer and found Cuba Gooding Jr's character when he was a young boy and decided to take him in without killing him, although he witnessed her murder. And good thing he had abusive father or else he would have been dead. Than it goes in a preposterous and predictable direction from there on which does not work well with a movie like this. During the whole film I just wanted it to end quickly cause, the whole premise wasn't entertaining or even intriguing. There is a few shocking scenes thrown in, which is shocking but has no substance to it either. A lot about this film is weird and just not satisfying what so ever when it is finished. There isn't a single likable character in this film and you just don't give a crap what happens to them, as a matter of fact you sort of want them all to die. It is just dull and is a waste of time, I give it a 4 cause although this is a pretty bad film I have seen worse.4/10

redeyethug187 first of all this movie was a crappy mess maybe that is not the word I am looking for it just tries to shock but the comments on this movie are ridiculous because it is a wannabe gangster or whatever it is trying to be it is not put together well at all I mean Cuba gooding he was good in the 90's but now he just does not know what he is doing and stephen dorf who cares about him man he is shitty it is just ridiculous I mean you could watch el topo and that movie is hell of a lot better than this and more shocking too. Lee Daniels does not know what he is doing and anybody could make a better film using lesser actors. The actors in this movie should have known that this movie was a bunch of trash and they did it because of the paychecks but thats actors putting themselves in awful movies only if the money is good.