I found this movie so frustrating because it didn't know what it wanted to be.

It had "potential" -- which is what people see when what's in front of them isn't good enough. This movie had me rolling with its satire and some fantastically dry, understated jokes. ("It's essential to listen to black voices right now.") It had lots to say about the black experience in America today, and set you up to think it would deliver, but instead...

....the comedy and satire, its real brilliance, was overshadowed by the heavy-handed and depressing family drama, that, at least to me, didn't seem to have a message of its own, not did it seem to have anything to do with the comedy side.

So half of the movie to me is an easy 8 and I loved it, but the other half I give a 3 because it bored me and at one point I almost turned it off. Overall, I guess it's a 5 for me.