An average movie

I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since the story did sound intriguing and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, even though it turned to be a decent watch, it wasn’t really much more than that, to be honest. Basically, their approach was to focus mostly on the fact that this murder investigation was partly solved because the family made their own investigation through a vintage social media website called ‘myspace.com’ (in fact, even though I thought I did disappear following the rise of Facebook, it apparently still exists today). Well, it might have seemed clever but, while I have to admit that it was fairly spectacular, I’m not sure if it was really the most interesting thing about this true tale. I mean, at some point, they mentioned the fact the family was also involved in criminality but it was dropped fairly quickly. In a similar fashion, they gave us some interviews with various people involved in the 5150 gang or close to the people involved in this gang but they never went really deep into this matter either. Of course, the fact that some civilians would get some better results in a murder investigation than the cops was intriguing but going deeper in the people involved, especially developing their social background, might have been more interesting, at least, to me. For example, considering how rough this neighbourhood was, it was in fact hardly surprising that some completely random shooting would result in the death of some innocent girl and this case only got more attention sadly only because of the social media angle. Anyway, to conclude, even if it was nothing really mind-blowing, it was still not bad at all and I guess it is worth a look, at least, if you really like the genre.