Review of Chi-Raq (2015) by Yash B — 26 Feb 2016

I will say the movie means well and tackles a good amount of real issues. I thought the performances were good too, nothing great, but everyone does a serviceable job in it. However, it has quite a few problems.

The movie is meant to be satirical but a lot of it comes off as awkward and the tone is very conflicted. The movie's beginning is what kept me the most invested but I was checking my watch the whole second half.

At a point the story gets repetitive and more and more bizarre. It's a unique movie that has big ideas going for it but it tries to cover too much and lacks focus. Some of it is entertaining in a way but overall I didn't feel like I got much out of it and I wasn't big on the strange style and extremely conflicted tone.