Movie To reconsider :::: Shadow Boxer

Ever since Cuba Godding Jr. began doing quirky films I began to wonder if he had it in himself to do films that broadened his range. I was wrong and immature in my perception. So what; he, threw on a dress, and took a boat trip! As far as acting is concerned he did a good job, it was just a film that did not interest my taste. However being that I am putting together this section I took some time out to review his films and realized that lets see if he does the film that will bring that about. So what he should do is leave the Daddy day (anything) camp to Eddie Murphy.

When you have gems like ShadowBoxer which is an all around film that has floated under radar. With a plot offering something; that very few films offer. The ability to offer up raw cinematography with great acting, coupled with simplistic, raw, unadulterated directing.

In my opinion studios need to focus on the literature before the cinema and make a great translation. All too often it gets lost!

Leave the big budget at home, give me a great piece with acting that is consistent. Although I do enjoy my big budget blockbusters, but when it is called for. There is nothing I hate more than a dressed up script that should have hit the trash.

Here you have a film about hidden redemption that drags you in way into the last frame leaving you begging for more. With Gangsters and Assassins going head to head in a film that breaks out the mold, all the while offering you a theme that is not to far off base. This a is a cultural piece of art, that has a diverse range in presenting characters that are multi layered and interesting.



The Film stars, Helen Mirren, Cuba Gooding Jr., Vanessa Ferlito, Macy Gray, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, with Monique and Stephen Dorff, directed by Lee Daniels. This cast of characters make up a raw diversity with out over emphasizing it. It is the next generation in film making and it the element in film making that is missing. Seeing actors work together with common interest, and characteristics, is opening the door to an equilibrium that will shatter stereotypical concepts, attaching them to one group or another. Barriers have been broken with this film, no matter how subtle.

Here is the trailer:



Clip is a re dub from pieces of the film with Christina Aguilera's Dirty featuring Red Man focusing on Helen Mirren's and Cuba Gooding's Cahracter interaction :



Stephen Dorff Scene a not for the office :