'The Resort': Five Perfect Minutes and Countless Missed Opportunities
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.
Death Of A G (2006)
Lifelong friends find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this gritty urban action. Mike (Grady McCardell-Walker Texas Ranger) and his close friends Kareem (Jason Morgan), Preacha (Shawn McClemore) and BJ (Curtis Von Burrell -Jason's Lyric) were born and raised on the same mean streets of an unforgiving inner-city neighborhood. Marvin (Thomas Miles II -Thug Life), Mike's brother, was a major player in a drug cartel who was killed by rivals in an attempt to takeover the cartel. BJ, now a detective assigned to take down the cartel, finds himself going head to head with his lifelong friends who are out for violent revenge. So, where do his loyalties as a friend end, and his duties as a police officer begin?
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Lifelong friends find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this gritty urban action. Mike (Grady McCardell-Walker Texas Ranger) and his close friends Kareem (Jason Morgan), Preacha (Shawn McClemore) and BJ (Curtis Von Burrell -Jason's Lyric) were born and raised on the same mean streets of an unforgiving inner-city neighborhood. Marvin (Thomas Miles II -Thug Life), Mike's brother, was a major player in a drug cartel who was killed by rivals in an attempt to takeover the cartel. BJ, now a detective assigned to take down the cartel, finds himself going head to head with his lifelong friends who are out for violent revenge. So, where do his loyalties as a friend end, and his duties as a police officer begin?
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Genre:Drama, Crime
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In Theaters:6/13/2006
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Runtime:90 minutes
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