After John's absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film and in reality—the streets of Brooklyn are all Primo has ever known. While John questions whether or not to enter into this life, Primo must decide whether to leave it all behind as he vows to become a better husband and father. Set during those New York summer weeks where the stifling heat seems to encase everything, Five Star plunges into gang culture with searing intensity. Director Keith Miller observes the lives of these two men with a quiet yet pointed distance, carefully eschewing worn clichés through its unflinching focus. Distinctions between fiction and real life remain intentionally ambiguous, allowing the story of these two men to resonate beyond the streets, as they face the question of what it means to be a man.
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Five Star was released in 2014 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 18 reviews, giving Five Star (2014) an average rating of 58%.
Overall, film critics marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 72%, compared to cinema-goers, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 67%.
With a score of 58%, Five Star is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2014, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2014 with similar scores include films like Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, The Giver and Maps to the Stars.
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