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Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
Rate:
5
Viewed:
6/23
6/23:
Blue Hill Avenue contains 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.