I'll give it it's props - it was somewhat fun to watch, and the people had the inner-city lingo down pat and they did seem realistic and not "acting". And The scene where the Baby cries for Mommy (who was shot) seemed very real and was heart-breaking. But the realism ends there. By the way that baby was so, so cute. He was the real star of the film.
This film had good acting but the details were all very VERY FAKE. The intro was lifted right from "Gang Tapes". 3 college kids were robbed of their money and their camera. They immediately trusted this very shady guy enough to let him in the car and then ordered up a huge amount of coke - letting him know of course that they had a lot of money. After that - the main guy - who stole the camera - NEVER has the Camera !! It is always held by someone else . . filming him planning and carrying out one robbery after another. Would anyone have themselves filmed while doing these life-sentence type crimes ?? Would anyone be alive more than a day or two if they robbed - not killed - multiple drug dealers in their own area in the Atlanta hood ?
The first one is a robbery of a guy selling dope literally 200 yards away. They had cars - why not rob a dealer 10 miles away instead of right next to you ? The first guy they robbed had huge amounts of powder coke. Powder? Street sales are all crack. And when the main character was cutting up "crack" with the baby . . . it was crumbly, gummy, paper-mache, or sheet rock or something. At least have realistic crack if you are doing a crack movie.
The ending . . . . oh geez. When he calls a Producer to announce he has some "good sh** on video". The "Producer" was just 20 mins from the hood, and of course put everything else aside and asked him to come over right away !! I think they should have cut out the beginning and the ending - and then dropped the whole thing about this being a documentary - instead calling it "Based on Truth".
This film had good acting but the details were all very VERY FAKE. The intro was lifted right from "Gang Tapes". 3 college kids were robbed of their money and their camera. They immediately trusted this very shady guy enough to let him in the car and then ordered up a huge amount of coke - letting him know of course that they had a lot of money. After that - the main guy - who stole the camera - NEVER has the Camera !! It is always held by someone else . . filming him planning and carrying out one robbery after another. Would anyone have themselves filmed while doing these life-sentence type crimes ?? Would anyone be alive more than a day or two if they robbed - not killed - multiple drug dealers in their own area in the Atlanta hood ?
The first one is a robbery of a guy selling dope literally 200 yards away. They had cars - why not rob a dealer 10 miles away instead of right next to you ? The first guy they robbed had huge amounts of powder coke. Powder? Street sales are all crack. And when the main character was cutting up "crack" with the baby . . . it was crumbly, gummy, paper-mache, or sheet rock or something. At least have realistic crack if you are doing a crack movie.
The ending . . . . oh geez. When he calls a Producer to announce he has some "good sh** on video". The "Producer" was just 20 mins from the hood, and of course put everything else aside and asked him to come over right away !! I think they should have cut out the beginning and the ending - and then dropped the whole thing about this being a documentary - instead calling it "Based on Truth".