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Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
6/23
6/23:
Blue Hill Avenue is nothing original.
There have been hundreds like it. Now, what's Allen Payne doing in this? Wasn't he satisfied with
New Jack City,
or were there no other roles out there for him? If Nino Brown saw Gee Money like this, he would make him recite
"Am I my brother's keeper?" again before shooting him dead in cold blood.
The dialogue is awful and cheesy. There's no reason for the movie to be over two hours long. It's a tale of two halves: the
kids and them again as adults. While the Tristan and Simon have been partially developed, the final two aren't.
So, who are they? I don't know them and which goes to which kid. Everybody is a drug dealer, having
killed hundreds, if not thousands, of people, so answer this question for me: why do I have to care about these four guys?
Save for Allen Payne, William Forsythe, and Clarence Williams III, the cast is doing this for an audition tape in
the hopes of landing something better. Well, it didn't work out because I had never heard of them. But I was 100% right about one
guy who looked unbelievably fat: Michael Taliferro who passed away from a stroke in 2006 at age 44.
All in all, if I don't care about the characters, the film becomes impossible to like, hence the failure of Blue Hill Avenue.