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The Wash (2001)
6/10
Could've been a little better
29 June 2004
I am a fan of rap music, the only type of music I listen to so I know Dr.Dre and Snoop Dogg very well, I have seen their previous movies. Before watching the movie, I knew it was going to be a horrible one, but not as bad as expected.

The synopsis of the story is about two friends, Sean (Dr.Dre) and Dee Loc. Sean gets fired from his previous job and has no money and they also have a three day notice before they get evicted out of their house. With no job and desperation of money, Dee Loc insists that Sean comes to his work and try to get a job there, a car wash called "The Wash". The Wash is a type of place worked by dumb people who only steal from customers, smoke weed, chase girls, etc. As Sean goes there and takes opening assistant manager job from the owner of The Wash, Mr.Washington (George Wallace). At the same time, Mr.Washington is going through a hard time at The Wash getting threatening phone calls from a previous employee at The Wash who was recently fired, Chris (Eminem). The employees at The Wash cant believe Mr.Washington had fired Chris because they all knew Chris was crazy.

The plot of the story was kind of stupid, but the actors did what they could to not make it as horrible as it would've been, except Snoop Dogg. And didn't like his acting like in all of his other movies, because almost at least 50% of the time, hes always a gangsta sort of type of person and it doesent seem to work in the movie. But there are some upsides to the movie. It actually delivered some okay humour especially from a character named "Slim" (DJ Pooh). His jokes are idiotic but has to make you laugh. But there are other jokes in the movie that don't execute due to it being played out. There are a lot of cameos such as Ludacris, Kurupt, Eminem, Xzibit and Shaquille O'Neal.

After watching the movie I was at least pleased it wasn't that bad. The only thing for next time, don't make Snoop Dogg play the same role for a different movie again.

6/10
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Identity (2003)
8/10
An absolute great thriller!!!!!!!!!!
12 June 2004
What a great way to start off my first ever review. The movie has been out for a long time and I finally decided to rent it about 3-4 weeks ago and after watching it I said to myself "I should've seen this long time ago". The synopsis of the movie is one night when a thunderous storm occurs, 10 strangers meet each other in a small motel. A limo driver (Cusack), a cop (Liotta), a prostitute (Peet), a newlywed couple, a husband, wife and their son, an actress and prisoner who is with the policeman. And at the same time of the movie another convict who was found guilty on murder charges is in a meeting with district attorneys and a psychiatrist to talk about the execution tomorrow.

But what starts to get the viewers all pumped up and chilled is that one by one a person in the motel gets killed. The whole point is for the remaining people to try to find out the killer. John Cusack who is the main character of the movie plays his character perfectly and smartly gives his best performance to date, the same with Amanda Peet. Ray Liotta was an average performer in the movie and could've of done better. He wasn't as nasty as his character was to be assigned.

What I simply adored about the film was that it had me moving and my eyes wide open to all the twists, dialogue, actions, etc. that were going on during the movie. It had all different types of personalities you had to think about to try to guess about the murderer. I'll tell you, I guessed on 3 different characters and I was wrong. What the movie should've done to make it much better was by expanding on the idea. Make it a little longer so the person watching the film could keep thinking. But I'll I can say is the end is a very shocking and one hell of a twisting ending that I would've never suspected. I recommend you definitely check this out. 8.5/10
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