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23 February 2021

Charm City Kings (2020)


Charm City Kings
(which was originally called Twelve) started off with promise, and the location and the world building are great. But... as it turns out Ángel Manuel Soto was just making a usual paint-by-numbers Sundance movie. This has plenty of good stuff in it, but the screenplay is awful, and once we hit act two every single scene is not only predictable but also preposterous.

You can see from the poster, that the distributor was trying to sell the supporting performance by Meek Mill. And he is fine for some of the movie, but the screenplay is just so dumb that even his performance seems silly by the end.

I watched Charm City Kings on HBO Max, but I suggest you skip it.

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