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SPOILERS: God what a tragic and depressing movie. I don't usually think of 5 star movies in those terms but this movie had a message and it explained it quite well, if you can get past all of the racism, violence, and just general ugliness inherent in prisons and gangs. Money never wanted to get into the gang but he had to in order to survive. And unfortunately, once you're in, the gang never takes it's tentacles out of you. Money did what he had to do to stay on the gang's good side but when his sentence was about to end, he wanted out and back into a regular life. Beast made it clear that "once you're in, you're in for life" and threatened to kill Money's family if he tried to clean up his act. And so Money did what he had to do to protect his family. It wasn't pretty and it wasn't a feel good film but it was a pretty realistic portrayal of what prisons and the criminal underworld can do to a person, even a good person, when they get trapped inside of that mess. The acting was excellent. The plot was believable. And the story just flowed well and made sense. Great movie.