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700620, RE: Dope (Famuyiwa, 2015)
Posted by obsidianchrysalis, Fri Jul-17-15 04:47 PM
Saw it last night during the last run Dope will have in Austin.

It was self-aware and witty from the jump and it had a number of nice moments establishing the setting and the framework of the movie; the difference in being a 'geek' in a safer neighborhood and being a geek in the Bottoms.

A$AP was nice as well as the cameos from the musicians and the like.

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As far as criticisms, I think the movie would have played well if the supporting cast was built up and the plot was simpler.

The movie never explained why the Blood in the red cap wanted the drugs or the reasons why AJ got into drug dealing in the first place or why that group of kids became friends.

'Zero' from The Grand Budapest Hotel didn't have his past explained like Diggy's was and it would have been nice for the three friends to have more juvenile saber-rattling that comes from not being paid attention to by the others.

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But all in all, the movie was a nice summer comedy. Hopefully, the actors end up in more roles in the near future.