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

revsolly ...to find something to like about this movie. However, I came away from it realizing that it was just time that I would never get back. I can think of nothing good about this film.Is Cuba good in this film? Maybe - as far as the role can go.Is Helen any good in this film? She was just that - Helen Mirren - nothing special. Extremely low key.How about Steven Dorff? Oh great! Another psychotic! And one that we get to see bang some cheapo slut. That's worth the admission (rolls eyes).Levitt & Mo'nique? The only couple odder than Mirren & Gooding. I could almost believe Mirren & Gooding.This film debases everybody in it. It debases us for even watching it. The nudity basically sums up to seeing a WHOLE lot more of Gooding than anybody needed, Dorff proving that he can have sex & immediately kill somebody (why need clothes for that?) & just the thought of Levitt & Mo'nique (Arrgh!).Was the sex/murder scene in the garden supposed to be some kind of mood homage to Excalibur (which Helen was in)? I can hear the conversation now: "So, Cuba. We're going to have you having sex with this women 30 years older than you in a field. And then, while you're still in, you'll put a gun to her head & pull the trigger! And then, you bury her in the middle of the night, all the time naked as a jay bird.And then we have the stereotyping of Macy Gray's role. Where was Jessie Jackson for that one?All this doesn't even touch the warping of the young boy. By the end of the movie, he's seen his perceived father cleaning his weapon (in itself, not a bad thing), we are led to believe that he has some understanding of Mikey's "profession" and, finally, he gets to kill his real father. That look in his face at the end warns of a future serial killer well in the making.Please, save yourself. Leave this "film" alone. Let it die. It won't be a dignified death but, at least it will die.

sdjar42 If I had the say over whether children could be in movies there would be no children in movies. Parents must leave there parenting instincts at the door when making these decisions for their children. This movie taught a little boy how to kill. This was a weird movie, Helen Mirren must have been paid millions for doing this stinker. The British will do anything for money. Cuba was good but he's always good and this was not worthy of him. I'm sorry I watched this garbage. I was truly shocked to see Helen and Cuba in this movie. It was tawdry and left a bad feeling with me. I guess I do not want to see that underbelly of the world.

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.