The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

I watched this miniseries after seeing the documentary, The Boys from Baraka. Damn, this entire mini-series is so depressing. I dreaded watching it, yet could not look away. I had to find out what decisions each person would make and the impact it would have on their lives. I really wish more of the character's back story would have been more drawn out and not shown in flashbacks that seem to last milliseconds. I'd like to have know the very moment Gary first picked up that needle, the day he and Fran split and more about Fat Kurt's past. The short flashbacks didn't do the story justice. Tears filled my eyes as the ultimate fate of Gary was revealed. The man had so much going for him at one time and could have very likely had a lot going for him again. He showed all the signs of wanting to give up the life, yet he did not. Just like the rest of the miniseries, this made me very sad.

Bleak, uncompromising and hard-hitting. The quality of the acting, scripting and direction pull together to create a contemporary urban drama revolving around the lives of drug addicts and dealers living in the slums of downtown Baltimore, a figurative cancer eating away at the American heartland.Based on the true life story of Francine Boyd (played here by the mesmerizing Khandi Alexander) from the book by Edward Burns & David Simon - subject matter experts on the Baltimore drug scene and writers for TV's "The Wire". As with real life, there aren't any easy answers or happy endings. With "The Corner" HBO raised the bar on the quality of television drama forever.

As i watched this movie I thought to myself, "what has happened to the black community?" In the movie all the people had to travel outside the neighborhood to get jobs, they all lived inside a huddled corner where drug dealers are allowed to roam freely, and what terrifies me is it looks like its always the black mans fault. Are we truly heathens? Are we that ignorant to see that this hateful deceitful world thrives off purposed intent, that sometimes things happen for a reason?I am not convinced that black people are the sole source of their problems, every time we have tried to unite, we have been robbed of our leaders, every time we try to branch out, we are left the abandoned rubbish that others leave behind to escape us. Its time we wake up, and begin to act like citizens that police our communities rather than losing our people to lifetime sentences, and leaving the children to learn for themselves how wicked life can be.I'm sure that this might be somewhat accurate about the area of baltimore that these people live in, but I also see that any place whites have abandoned, so have the businesses, and the money goes out therefore the jobs are gone, the police force is minimum and the people are stuck with that American dream that tends to contribute to living a good carefree life, you know, like the people we idolized on television?. This does not make sense. Something has got to give.Sure this is not about just us, but about every ghetto across the nation, and right now this isn't about every race, because one race is being targeted in this rough somber picture about neglectful negroes circling inside a make-believe prison of their own internalized fears and physical addictions to chemical incarceration. I am sure that we need to be more rigorous about teaching the youth, being more resilient about how we need to stay close even when we spread apart. This is not just a problem in baltimore, its all over the united states. Something has got to give.

The subject matter of this miniseries was not pleasant to watch or digest but it held my attention the entire time. It was extremely gripping and wonderfully acted. Khandi Alexander in particular should be applauded for her fantastic performance.