Viewing this movie is like watching paint dry and no matter what good features it has the film is mostly boring and tedious. For all sorts of political and other reasons "the media" et al have decided to laud this picture as some kind of masterpiece; I respectfully but strongly disagree.

And it is insulting to black people that Hollywood has decided to now go overboard in its' praise to try to atone for years of ignoring black minorities.

The story shows different phases of a young black man's life, who comes from a broken home, has a gay experience and eventually becomes a drug dealer. Are we meant to have any sympathy or even empathy for him? The majority of people, black or otherwise, do not turn into criminals just because of their upbringing or their possible sexual orientation.

The film moves along at a snails pace, the acting is underplayed to the extent of being not interesting. And the truth is nothing really happens in the movie except that everyone in it is usually either unhappy or feeling sorry for themselves. Maybe if they put a few white people in the show it would have livened things up:

2 and a half, rounded down =

2/10.