An average movie

I wonder how I actually ended up watching this flick and I also wonder how Robert Zemeckis got involved as he wrote this movie just after finishing the ‘Back to the Future’ trilogy. Eventually, I guess the main reason I wanted to check this flick was because it was directed by Walter Hill. Anyway, this movie seems to have a decent reputation because the action scenes were pretty badass but, to be honest, I had a rather time to care about this flick. Basically, the damned thing was a rather weird mix of some modern treasure hunting feature with a typical hood drama, a genre that really flourished back then in the 90’s. I almost forgot to mention that, for some reason, there was also one of the gang members filming everything making the whole thing look like some avant-garde reality TV-show. I guess its complete randomness might seem appealing, I have to admit that the whole thing was rather unpredictable but, as far as I was concerned, it felt more like a random mess involving some rather unlikable and/or uninteresting characters. In fact, it was Ice Cube's 2^nd movie following ‘Boyz n the Hood’ and it was pretty neat to see him working with Ice-T but their relationship was reduced to some constant bickering on how they should handle their predicament. To make things worse, all of these guys (indeed, it’s such a macho action flick that there was not a single female character involved) were barely developed and they were all terribly one-note. At least, I did appreciate the fact that the most unlikely character did end up with the loot at the end but, again, just like the rest of this movie, it was terribly random and as a result still hardly satisfying. Anyway, to conclude, it was probably one of the weirdest action flicks I have seen but it wasn’t weird in a interesting way, it was just plain random and messy and I don’t think it is really worth a look.