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Empire
is about a driven Puerto Rican drug dealer teaming up with a
Wall Street banker to build a powerful underworld organization.
He finds the world of high finance is even
more dangerous than the streets. I sort of liked the many strange
directions this movie takes you, but it never quite came together
for me.
If you don't like violence, then this movie
is not for you. It's cold-blooded crime, not at its best. |
Empire
is everything a film should not be. Its plot: a drug dealer with
a heart of gold, trying to go straight;its photography, ruined
by bad metering; dialogue so bad, that it's laugh-out-loud funny;
and the waste of screen time on gratuitous choreographed shoot-out
sequences.
The actors try their best, but this one
should have stayed on the shelf. |
Empire
is a predictable and commonplace movie about a Bronx drug dealer's
attempt to go straight.
He becomes doomed and takes a curve when
he enlists the help of an investment banker.
I didn't like the format of this film with
its extended voiceovers and trash talking profanity on and on
throughout the picture.
The story caters to its audience by glorifying
drug dealing and violence in all too depressingly familiar way. |
