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Adam Bhala Lough (written by)
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Graffiti Can Be A Powerful Weapon
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A tribute to graffiti art and the city where it all began. Blest, a 19-year-old graffiti writer, has just graduated from high school... more | add synopsis
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6 wins & 1 nomination more
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After Dark have 'Weapon' of choice
(From ioncinema. 23 January 2007)
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Unrealistic... more (12 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Mark Webber | ... | Anthony 'Blest' Campo |
 | Gano Grills | ... | Justin 'Buk 50' Broady |
| Jade Yorker | ... | Kevin 'Lune' Broady |
| Jaclyn DeSantis | ... | Alexandra |
| Joey Dedio | ... | Hazer |
 | Stephen Buchanan | ... | Noble |
 | Al Sapienza | ... | Officer Bobby Cox |
| Bonz Malone | ... | Officer Nole Shorts |
| Donna Mitchell | ... | Diane Campo |
| Kumar Pallana | ... | Kumar Baba |
| Blake Lethem | ... | Lazaro |
| Dylan Mikson | ... | Gabriel |
| Joshua Gustin | ... | Young Blest |
 | KaDee Strickland | ... | Toni |
| Semz | ... | Knife |
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Rated R for pervasive language, drug use, some violence and sexuality/nudity.
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USA:91 min
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Revealing mistakes: The word "precinct" is misspelled in the newspaper headline that is seen after the undercover police car is tagged with graffiti. more
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Featured in The 2004 IFP/West Independent Spirit Awards (2004) (TV) more
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I went into this movie thinking it would be a non-cliché, modern portrayal of graffiti culture in NY... only to see in the first 2 minutes, a guy Break dancing with a boombox, in front of a muraled wall. Maybe it was a flashback of the main character as a kid... but it seems that would only make sense if the lead character was 30yrs old.
I tried to give this movie a chance. But there were just too many things that bugged me... The writing for instance, all the graffiti terminology was incorrectly used. When a graffiti writer goes "Bombing" he does not go out and do full illegal murals. Nobody even mentions doing "fill-ins" or "throwups" which are the most commonly used terms/acts by graf-writers. They call them "pieces" in the movie, which is completely wrong. Those are just some examples...
It became pretty obvious that the filmmakers knew little or Nothing about graffiti. Just because you know about Sane & Smith, and heard a couple chase stories from your NYU buddy, isn't enough to go out and make a significant Graffiti movie. There is some "cool" cinematography in this, which isn't bad. But that's it. Storyline is similar to the likes of Wild Style or Beat Street (a hip hop love story). But even those movies were made with less pretension than this.