Hustle & Flow

Rating: R16 – Contains Violence, Drug Use, Offensive Language & Sexual Themes.
Duration: 118 mins.
Genre: Drama.
Actors: Anthony Anderson, Taraji P. Henson, Elise Neal, Taryn Manning, Terrence Howard, Ludacris , Paula Jai Parker.
Director: Craig Brewer.
Release Date: Available Now.

Written and directed by inexperienced Director Craig Brewer, Hustle & Flow stays true to it’s name. It flows all over the place trying to hustle up some sympathy for the main players.

It’s a violent dirty movie that offers not an ounce of hope, so possibly the week leading up to Christmas wasn’t a good time to be reviewing this movie.

Based in the gritty urban world of drug dealing and pimping, Brewer seems to want to glamorise one pimps rise above the poverty level when he decides he’s gonna be a rapper. The boy does have some talent, especially when he brings in and old school buddy, but we soon learn that the only way out of the ghetto is over the bodies of other people.

Pain and disappointment is the main theme for this movie, and though some may argue that there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and what cost has this light been to the lives of everyone involved?

Food for thought:
Should society reward vengence?

Rent or Buy?
If you think you’re way too happy after all those Christmas presents, rent this movie to bring you back down a couple of notches. If you’re borderline suicidal, leave it alone, it might just push you over the edge!