Simply A Masterpiece

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

A group of friends become involved in a potentially deadly diamond heist. Poorly written and directed but also tries to sell copies from having Bruce Willis in it this terrible action film feels like a bad rip-off of heist films like 'The Town' and lacks the talent and the script that was needed to have and even the main actor described it as poor. Don't waste the time or the money into this film. (0/10)

This movie from start to finish was just bad. I decided to give it one star because there were a few points that were kind of funny (some just awkward) but enough that made me at least want to see the ending.This film had two things working against it from the beginning. The Script and 50 Cent. Even a great actor like Bruce Willis could not make this script sound fluent. There were many parts where it was just weird the way he delivered the lines. Some of the dialogue felt like it was out of an early 90's horror flick. And, 50 cent, I mean come on. At least if they had cast someone with a smidgen of acting ability, he could of tried to carry the main character and storyline a little more. But having 50 cent try to do it was laughable.I'd have to say that this move is below a B flick. I would not waste my time, but after I got halfway through and wanted to turn it off, I had already invested 40 minutes of my life.

Crimes, prisons, betrayals etc are nasty stuff, but in good movies, there is "something" that is catchy, that makes you compare and ponder - not just follow visual things like shootings, chases and punishments. Setup, unfortunately, is an "arid" and plain story with predictable events and dull ending. As for the cast, only Bruce Willis is at a premium, the rest are mediocre at best; Ryan Phillipe is too "cute" to be a tough criminal, 50 Cent can be a good rapper, but as actor, he is quite lousy. The scenes are not long or boring, but there is no smooth running or shifts, and some supporting characters provide no additional value (e.g. Vincent's father, Roth).You can watch it for killing time, but do expect any memorable experience. Pick a Guy Ritchie's or Luc Besson's movie instead.

You know, if your going to pinpoint one person as being symbolic of everything that is wrong with straight-to-video movies, it's pretty much ridiculous. I mean, they're straight-to-video movies. Nobody expects anything worthy of mention for them. Yet, that is exactly what I am going to do.Rapper 50 Cent is symbolic of much of what is wrong with straight-to-video movies. It's funny how this guy went from being one of the biggest rappers on earth to a regular in such movies, but he's got a s#!t load of money, so he act/produce these movies. With "Setup", he somehow brings in two bigger stars-Ryan Phillipe and Bruce Willis of all people-into his world of mediocrity.Mr. Cent stars as Sonny, who along with his best friend, is shot (way to be subtle about one of your claims to fame) by Vincent Long (Phillipe) after a heist gone wrong, and now wants revenge. To get this revenge, he teams with the mob, which always works well in these movies. When the mob's muscle Petey (Randy Courture, in a rather thankless role) is shot, and things start to go south, mob boss Biggs (Willis) wants something done about all this.I will say these two things: Willis is good (though only around for like 10 minutes total) and the production values look much better than most straight-to-video movies. Then again, this did cost $20 million to make, which seems like a bit much for something like this, but hey. Apart from that, this is your typical bad cop/heist/whatever movie from Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment. That means there's a bad soundtrack made up of dull rock and uninteresting rap, badly written character drama, mostly bad acting (Phillipe's performance could be called bipolar, as he goes from committed to looking like he doesn't want to be there), plot points like a pseudo-religious angle that go nowhere, plot holes the size of craters, and no reason to care about anyone or anything that happens.Then there's 50 Cent. Look, there are rappers that have proved themselves to be good to decent actors. Look at Ice Cube, Ice T, RZA and Mos Def for example. 50 Cent is not one of those good actors. Next to Master P, he's the worst rapper trying his hand at acting I've ever seen. This is a man who is completely void of anything resembling dramatic chops, charisma or screen presence, and serves more as a vacuum than he does an actor. And that's one of the reasons why he's so bad for these kinds of movies. Sure, Phillipe and Willis are clearly there for the paycheck-that or they were blackmailed or owed somebody a favor-but guys like James Remar are talented guys. Yet, this is a vanity project for a man who couldn't act to save his life.If you are a hardcore 50 Cent fan (though I doubt that kind of thing still exists), you will want to see this. Everyone else is better off reading a book or something.