"Hustler's Ambition"
January 11th 2007 22:26
Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)
Biography/ Crime/ Drama
Okay. I am gonna say straight off that despite my indie rock roots, I am a fifty cent fan, so much so that my friends and I know all the words to most of his songs, seek out Rap clubs so that we might crunk to said tunes and refer to him as ‘Fitty’ instead of Fifty Cent. Having said that, I’m also going to say that there were parts in this film where I wish he had of ‘died trying’. But that’s wasn’t necessarily Fitty’s fault. I blame writer Terence Winter, (who surprisingly has written at least twenty episodes of the very popular Sopranos) for his horrendous writing and Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, The Boxer, In America) for his clunky direction that came off as amateur and at times flat out ridiculous.
Something is amiss here. Either the production company couldn’t get it together or Winter and Sheridan have decided to take up a crack addiction. Sheridan has done some great work in the past (see above) and Winter has written some very sharp and savvy scripts prior to this abomination. I figured it was a first time director, probably a friend of someone in the cast who was doing the directing and that the script had been written by a Fifty Cent obsessed high school student. Whatever the case, this film had amateur written all over it.
Based on the life of Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ follows the story of a young orphaned African American boy from the projects and his quest to do just that; get rich or die tryin’. Following in his late mother’s footsteps, young Marcus (50 Cent) falls into the drug dealing game at an early age, eventually selling for a pseudo-mentor called Majestic, who is basically the shady nemesis of Marcus in the film. But Marcus’ real dream is to grow up to be a famous rapper. Going by the pseudonym, Young Caesar, and surviving prison, a robbery and an epic shooting, in which he gets shot at least 8 times, including in the face, Marcus comes good in the end. As we all suspected he would.
This film is very poorly directed and written, relying on obvious clichés to struggle through. Curtis (Fitty) Jackson however, proves he’s not just a pretty face and doesn’t do a half bad job in the acting arena. But if you’re looking for cinematic genius and award winning drama, you ain’t gonna find it here. This film is strictly for fans only.
Biography/ Crime/ Drama
Okay. I am gonna say straight off that despite my indie rock roots, I am a fifty cent fan, so much so that my friends and I know all the words to most of his songs, seek out Rap clubs so that we might crunk to said tunes and refer to him as ‘Fitty’ instead of Fifty Cent. Having said that, I’m also going to say that there were parts in this film where I wish he had of ‘died trying’. But that’s wasn’t necessarily Fitty’s fault. I blame writer Terence Winter, (who surprisingly has written at least twenty episodes of the very popular Sopranos) for his horrendous writing and Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot, The Boxer, In America) for his clunky direction that came off as amateur and at times flat out ridiculous.
Something is amiss here. Either the production company couldn’t get it together or Winter and Sheridan have decided to take up a crack addiction. Sheridan has done some great work in the past (see above) and Winter has written some very sharp and savvy scripts prior to this abomination. I figured it was a first time director, probably a friend of someone in the cast who was doing the directing and that the script had been written by a Fifty Cent obsessed high school student. Whatever the case, this film had amateur written all over it.
Based on the life of Curtis (50 Cent) Jackson, Get Rich or Die Tryin’ follows the story of a young orphaned African American boy from the projects and his quest to do just that; get rich or die tryin’. Following in his late mother’s footsteps, young Marcus (50 Cent) falls into the drug dealing game at an early age, eventually selling for a pseudo-mentor called Majestic, who is basically the shady nemesis of Marcus in the film. But Marcus’ real dream is to grow up to be a famous rapper. Going by the pseudonym, Young Caesar, and surviving prison, a robbery and an epic shooting, in which he gets shot at least 8 times, including in the face, Marcus comes good in the end. As we all suspected he would.
This film is very poorly directed and written, relying on obvious clichés to struggle through. Curtis (Fitty) Jackson however, proves he’s not just a pretty face and doesn’t do a half bad job in the acting arena. But if you’re looking for cinematic genius and award winning drama, you ain’t gonna find it here. This film is strictly for fans only.
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