Monty Brogan is and all around nice guy he is thoughtful and well spoken but he is has a past that has finally caught up with him. Monty is a drug dealer and he has been convicted of dealing drugs. He has exactly twenty-four hours before he must turn himself into the authorities so he can spend the next seven years in jail for his crimes. This is the tale of how he spends those last twenty four hours as he spends time with his two best friends, Frank, a bonds trader, and Jakob, a high school English teacher, and his girlfriend, Naturelle. During this last day he must find away to say goodbye to all these people including his father and find away to reconcile with his past and what is soon to be his future. During the day he reminisces about how him and his girlfriend met, about the finding and life saving of his dog and where it all began to go wrong. Monty has a suspicion that his arrest was triggered by a tip off to the authorities as they knew exactly where to find the drugs and had no trouble in convicting him of his crimes. So Monty and his friends party the night away in New York City one last time before he must pay for his crimes and lose everything.

Honestly I have absolutely nothing good to say about this film as it nearly bored me to tears in one worthless rant and self righteous drivel of a scene after another. I have trouble believing anybody could ever like this film as it is so boring it could put an insomniac to sleep. In fact I was afraid to make my intro to the movie to interesting as I would hold myself personally responsible if you saw this waste of a movie. I realize it got good reviews but I have to blame that on the fact that it is self righteous drivel which seems to be Spike Lee’s forte and any reviewer who wants to be considered apart of the elite must cry its praises. Nothing and I mean nothing happens in this movie. The movie clocks in at over two hours and the most action that was seen came in the first 10 minutes of the film as Edward Norton gets a dog. As the most action packed sequence of the movie it is also the one that seemed to make little sense as all it was trying to do was show that Norton’s character is good hearted nice guy even though he is a drug dealer. The movie seems to be trying to preach some cause that not all the bad guys are bad and not all the good guys are good. But this message is so wrapped in the boredom of a movie that is all talk and self righteous nonsense that you would wish they would put a disclaimer in front of the film warning people not to see it. I can enjoy a good drama and I can enjoy a good movie with little to no action but this movie was so horrendous I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
0 stars out of 5