Review of Sleight (2017) by Shawn C — 30 Apr 2017

If you are looking for a reason to justify purpose in selling cocaine, then this movie is spot on. The Lead actor is fresh faced, wide eyed and focused on creating a better life for himself and young sister.

Just like all good Disney flicks, this one starts off with the right catalyst, the death of their parents. Of course, he is smart - but only as reflected on schoolwork. In typical fashion, he puts his education on hold, holds a minimal pay job, watched enough Iron Man movies to invest in a generic version via his arm (and how is it that this man built electronic doesn't affect the rest of his body - mainly jump start into overloading his heart?) After a sweet period of love making with his first gf, she later discovers the clunky devise which is inflamed on his arm,- how did she miss that before, and her reaction here was the only underacted part of her portion of the movie.

..Dule, so disappointed. I LOVE this guy, but here it looked like he passed with flying colors after learning acting skills from William Shatner. And at the end, 6 months after rescuing his sister, his arm, once burned to a crispy black showed absolutely NO scaring? He was supposed to be smart, but cutting the cocaine to make more money, thinking he wouldn't get caught, not planning ahead to be on the move beforehand was just a dumb plot ploy to keep things from derailing on the script.

And the whole movie can be summed up by his comment that "I only sell to kids wanting to party." The director should have made a clearer choice, given his character courage enough to step away from using youth to excuse his behavior.

If it were set in a ghetto instead of flashy Hollywood area for sales, and showed the reality of what happens, I could see it. But instead, most of the movers and shakers are shallow.