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A series of eerie events thrusts an unlikely trio onto the trail of a nefarious government conspiracy lurking directly beneath their neighborhood.
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Contemporary, raw, unpretentious and plot-driven.
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- Brent Marchanton TMDB · Jul 20235/10
When a drug dealer (John Boyega) in a predominantly African-American inner city neighborhood dies in a revenge killing, his friends and colleagues are stunned to find him alive and healthy the following day. That’s particularly true for two of his regular associates, a pimp (Jamie Foxx) and one of his ladies of the evening (Teyonah Parris). Together, the unlikely trio proceeds to investigate what’s going on, only to soon find themselves in the midst of a fiendish social experiment involving cloning, mind control and behavior modification targeting their entire neighborhood, a clandestine initiative operated by an evil organization headed by a bigoted mastermind (Kiefer Sutherland). As intriguing as that narrative may sound, however, the picture’s execution leaves much to be desired. For starters, the film is trying way too hard to imitate the works of writer-director Jordan Peele, with more than a few thinly veiled elements that echo “Get Out” (2017) and “Us” (2019). Then there are a number of serious technical issues, most notably the picture’s truly horrendous sound quality (generally throughout, but especially in the first 30 often-undecipherable minutes) and its needlessly dark
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Cast
- John BoyegaFontaine
- Jamie FoxxSlick Charles
- Teyonah ParrisYo-Yo
- Kiefer SutherlandNixon
- David Alan GrierThe Preacher
- J. Alphonse NicholsonIsaac
- Tamberla PerryBiddy
- Eric Robinson Jr.Big Moss
- Trayce MalachiJuneBug
- Shariff EarpCrutches
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- Juel TaylorDirector
- Juel TaylorWriter
- Tony RettenmaierWriter
- Ken SengDirector of Photography
- Pierre CharlesOriginal Music Composer
- Saira HaiderEditor
- Jamie FoxxProducer
- Charles D. KingProducer
- Stephen "Dr" LoveProducer
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