MYST Post #3: 96 Minutes

While just scrolling through Netflix and trying to find something to watch, I decided to take a different turn and watch a movie that I probably wouldn't have ever watched. So immediately, I went to get my computer and went to www.rottentomatoes.com and the critics scored it higher then the audience with a 47% and the audience with just a percent lower with a 46%. And then I was like OK this is the website that allows lenience, let's see what Metacritic has to say about this movie. And Metacritic says that the critics likes 51% and the audience likes it 6.9 out of 10. So I was like why not just watch the movie and find out for myself how good or bad this movie really is.

In this movie, the main characters are Carly (Brittney Snow), Lena (Christian Serratos), Kevin (J. Michael Trautmann) and Dre (Evan Ross). The movie starts off as all of these characters in the car and Lena is shot in the cheek and Carly and her are sitting in the backseat while Dre is driving and Kevin is in the passenger side. The only people that are worried about what might happen to Lena is Carly and Dre. Kevin could care less about Lena, all he was trying to do was highjack a car in order to get into a gang which by him stealing a car, it would be his initiation. The movie then flashbacks to all the events prior to them ending up in the car ride in which Lena was shot in the cheek. Dre starts off his day going to school and his teacher telling him that he's going to graduate and that he only has to pick up his cap and gown. Dre, then meets his girlfriend and he surprises her when he says that he's actually graduating and he says that he's going to hang with his buddies from when he was younger. And of course, she suggests that he doesn't and he comes to hang out with her and celebrate, but he insists that everything is going to be OK and that he wants to hang with them.  The movie then shows, Kevin waking up and instead of trying to go to school, he just starts playing a shooter game and then his mom walks in, and he asks where she's been and she swears at him and says to mind his own business. The scene then switches, and shows Lena waking up in bed with the guy she believes likes her but through his actions and the way he talks to her shows the he evidently doesn't feel the same way and that she's only a one-night stand. He then leaves to go take a shower and she gets up and looks at his phone and sees a text from another girl saying that she can't wait to

see him tonight. She then gets up, gets dressed and walks to her house across the campus. She then talks to her friend about what happened and her friend promises that tonight, they'll go and have the time of their lives and forget about what happened with the guy. The scene then switches to Carly, when she walks into class and then she is debating a case (because she is in lawyer's school) with another classmate and the teacher stops them and states that on Monday they will resume where they left off and Carly and another student walks off together while discussing what they will be doing this weekend. The scene then switches to Kevin and Dre walking away from their "friends" with Kevin stating that he's going to get into the gang one way or another and then Dre telling him its not worth it. It's then nighttime, and you see Carly parking her car, and then walking into the club and then you see the Lena and her friend walking into the club. After that scene, you see Dre and Kevin getting off a bus and Dre telling Kevin that he's going to go to this college once he graduates and Kevin then says why has they not allowed him into the gang and Dre says because I asked him not to and Kevin goes crazy and says I'm stealing the car right now and he sees Lena and Carly walking to Carly's car and Kevin pulls out a gun, takes Carly's keys and then throws them to Dre stating that he needs to drive. Everyone gets into the car except Lena and Lena is begging that he spare their lives and Kevin keeps the gun at her face and says "get in the car". He then shoots her in the cheek and then Carly grabs her and lies her down in her lap. They all get in the car and soon enough they are arguing whether to go to a hospital or to keep driving. And then Carly thinks to grab a piece of paper and writes with Lena's blood "Help, Call 911". She then takes the sheet and puts it up on the window and no one notices it until one lady sees this a moment too late because then Dre decides to turn another way and stop at the gas station at Kevin's request and Dre tells him to get what he needs and get out. At this moment, Kevin goes inside the gas station and tries to buy alcohol and the man says he has to have an I.D. to buy it and he calls him son afterwards and Kevin has a flashback of his stepdad calling him that and he tells the man not to call him that and the man continues to call him that and Kevin shoots the man. Dre hears the shots and at that moment Carly decides to open the door but is forced to close it once Kevin runs out of the gas station. They drive off and Dre states that just because Kevin has the gun doesn't give him the right to shoot others and Kevin said he did it because he was hungry and the man kept calling him son. They then stop at an underpass and Dre tells them all to get out. They all obey with Carly helping Lena because she is losing lots of blood and she really needs to get to a hospital. Dre tells Kevin he's going to shoot the girls and Kevin says "Can I do it?". And Dre says this isn't a game Kevin, and Kevin gets confused and they start to argue and Carly takes this chance to run and Kevin turns around sees that she running and says "Hey girl!" and takes the gun from Dre and shoots her in the head. Dre and Kevin then run to the car and speed way leaving Lena and Carly there to die. Dre drops the car off and wipes his prints off saying not to tell anyone and Kevin walks and away and then Dre walks away to his house. In the next scene you see Carly getting up, and running in the streets to get someone to help and see stops at one house with a light on and the people just turn the lights off and she decides to run in the streets and one car stops and he tells her get in the car. Of course, she's scared but she relents and gets in and he takes her to a hospital and she tells them that

her friend, Lena is in an underpass and needs help. Once they operate on her, the man who saved her tells her that her friend, Lena didn't make it. She then tells him that Lena, was going to graduate in two weeks. The next scene shows Kevin walking up to the gangsters and telling them what happened. Through their hand motions and actions, you could tell that they weren't going to let him in and that he's stupid for killing someone. The next scene is shown when Dre is in jail and Carly is coming to see him and she tells him that was he did was unforgivable and that whole night he could've done something to stop what happened. She then states that she tried to forgive him but couldn't because he ruined everyone's life that night and that she hopes he rotes him jail. The movie ends with her driving "towards her new life".

This movie was a bit fast-paced and things happened so quickly that you could barely keep up with what happened next. I don't like how the movie ended because it ended up with Dre in jail and Kevin getting nothing. Yes, I understand that Kevin was 16 and Dre was 18 but Kevin did the most damage with shooting 3 people, killing 1. Yes, Dre should have done something like go to the hospital but he was trying to save a friend from getting in trouble as well as maybe saving himself because he would

be guilty by association and aiding a criminal by law. Dre should've gotten in trouble but punishment ultimately should've been given to Kevin he did the most damage and you do the crime you have to pay the time, I don't care how old you are. Based on the degree of which he did the crime, he deserves to be tried as an adult and sentenced. This still does not exclude Dre, because he could have done something to stop these events and minimized what happened to him. But I don't know, maybe the law enforcement did something to Kevin but in the movie it's not shown so I have to right to say what did and didn't happen

The main scene that stuck out in my mind is when Dre is sitting in jail thinking and he has this little sharp object, carving little pictures and words into the wall. This scene stuck out to me because he's thinking back to all the oppurtunities that he had to stop what happened that night but he was either to dumb, stupid to try to stop it or he was trying to save a friend. And honestly, I think that he feels very bad about what happened and that he didn't mean for any of this to happen but Kevin could care less about what happened to the girls, he'll continue to live his thug life and try to act tough and bad. But Dre really did not deserve for this to happen to him to all happen.

I give this movie a 3.5/5 stars. I would definetley reccommend watching this movie because it kinda stirs emotions in you and makes you think about if you were in this same situation what would you do. 

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