Blues

Review from Past The Popcorn.com - Greg Wright
Blues is a tight, low-budget, one-room crime drama that manages to deliver quite a punch in spite of the inherent limitations.

The setup is this. After wannabe toughs Head and Chile botch an impromptu robbery, beat cop Martin chases them into a blues nightclub, where they hole up with the club's staff... and the now incapacitated Martin. Thinking that's there's no way out, Chile (rhymes with smile, not silly) follows Head's lead in dreaming up all kinds of no-win hostage scenarios as the building is cordoned off by police backup.

It's a simple and deadly story, and one we've seen often before both in theaters and on TV, but writer/director Brandon Sonnier keeps things remarkably fresh by fleshing out his cast of hostages with compelling backstories. Whether we're finding out more about clubowner Pop Boudreaux, his floor manager and granddaughter Dee, the new (ex-con) bartender Reese, hip-hop entertainer Lil' Pokey, or the others, we don't at all mind that the...

Interesting, but rough.
Good thinking movie with the daughter of Sydney Poitier, (also named Sydney) but with harsher words and more violence than I care for. (I am a wimp about that kind of stuff--don't even like the violence in James Bond.) The way the story is put together from different points of view is clever. I would enjoy other movies with Sydney Poitie--she is a good actress.



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