Review of Chi-Raq (2015) by Drago_Malik — 11 Feb 2016

The problem is gang murders in Chicago. The gorgeous female protagonist's solution is for all women to go on sexual strike till it stops. When it is resolved there is a pish posh of leftist wishlist solutions tagged onto to the contract for all social problems like some legislation in Congress.

The scope of the movie had long before went out of focus skipping to scenes that just seemed out of place for a real issue that could have had some proper attention. Instead we end up with fluff and a pipe dream that is ineffective for resolving anything.

There are some real moments, mostly with the mother who lost her child. A line that resonates with me is when she yelled at onlookers saying they didn't deserve to see her child laying there. I felt the same way when I saw my first dead body.

I was ashamed to see them like that knowing them that way when their family didn't even know yet. That was excellent. The movie seems to be directed in patches where there is some drama and then we go into some comedy and they just don't meld together at all.

The comedy is just out of place. Sadly the politics is pretty much one dimensional, hence the solution is inadequate. I didn't care for the rhyming dialogue either. John Cusack was definitely out of place and doesn't do a good preacher.