Review of Alpha Dog

I love this movie! It's based on a true story about a small time drug dealer trying to make it big like his old man. Its starts out simple a dozen kids with too much time, money and drugs on thier hands. When the The main charcter Johnny Truelove, feels he's getting stiffed by one of the dealers - Jake Mazursky - working for him, they get into a fist fight. Truelove about to be on the losing end of the fight pulls out a gun, and this becomes the first of a hundred stupid mistakes these kids make. Everything comes to a head when Truelove and his friends just happen to run into Mazursky's younger brother, and Trulove thinks he can get back at Muzursky by holding his brother. Not till later does he realize he just commited a serious crime that carries a lengthy prison term. There is a lot of options for Truelove now, but he only sees one. This movie has a lot of good young actors and I think everyone of them nailed their roles, but none like Justin Timberlake, (I never cared for Timberlake or his boy band)but the relationship between Timberlakes and the younger Mazursky was absolutely heartbreaking. I almost had to walk out of the theater during the climax because it was so gut-wrenching to watch that terrified boy reaching out for comfort to the one who was killing him. Other than young kids I would recommend this movie to anyone.