It's very difficult for a movie to get me to cry, but this one certainly did it. An incredibly emotionally powerful film that thoughtfully weaves its themes throughout the plot, story, and dialogue. Heart-wrenching, but a brilliant film that shouldn't be missed.

A cast of characters, amoral but not evil, are led into an escalating spiral of violence from which there is no escape by the ruthlessly ambitious Bishop (brought to life through an excellent performance by Tupac). A sucker punch of a film that feels as Shakespearean in its structure as it does cutthroat in its narrative.

[Content warning for a few brief yet cruel and disappointing transphobic jokes in one scene early in the film.]

A swing and a whiff. I see what they were going for with the sparse and quasi-surrealist storytelling. There’s no reason that it couldn’t work for this movie, and there were some elements of the movie that worked well, but the way it was executed ultimately made it dull and messy. Watch “Drive” or “Taxi Driver” instead.