 We can do whatever we want if we just believe we're able to. Alright guys so now we have a magician in the hood of Los Angeles. I'm kidding but slightly serious. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery and this is just my opinion. So I really like the title of this movie it's called Slight as in Slight of Hand and that is a technique that a lot of magicians use around the world and have been doing it for decades and hundreds and hundreds of years. And I remember a number of weeks ago my homeboy hit me up saying hey man have you seen the new movie Slight or do you have you heard about it. I was like no man what is that so he sent me a trailer. I looked at it and I was like oh yeah I do remember something about that I completely forgot. It just went completely under my radar and I just got back from the theater from seeing it and I want to talk to you about it. There it's been out for it originally came out at the Sundance Film Festival and it had pretty good reviews right there during that time. It's on Rotten Tomatoes right now of course with about 30 40 reviews and the reviews are good but I want to give my opinion on it and it's directed by J.D. Dillard and if you've never heard of him before that's okay because this is his first feature. He's done a number of short films and you can look that up on IMDB if you're into short films. I'm using not into short films I only pay attention to him when they are now some method Oscars. But this is directed by J.D. Dillard. He wrote and directed it. If you've seen the trailers for this movie you also see that it's from the same producers as Get Out and there's Jason Blum. He's the head guy over at Blumhouse Productions and they always are producing films that usually come out to us the beginning of the year that are like five million dollars and less and five million dollars to like a Hollywood budget is just pennies on the dollar just absolutely nothing and this film was also produced by WWE Studios. I started watching wrestling back in like 1999-2000. I know that's still popular but they've been trying to get into the the movie business for a while now and they always dish out something that's pretty good usually a cheap horror thriller but you know for what they are I do appreciate them. And when I was talking about you know producing films for a cheap amount this movie was super duper cheap. It was only two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. I mean that is dirt cheap you know for a wide release and also to get the type of attention it's got. And there's a rule that you always want to follow like a studio is always satisfied when at the box office worldwide or wherever they're distributing the film it makes at least three times the budget. I don't want to say that they're happy or pissed off the safe word is satisfied because you know I just want to draw it in the line right there and just say satisfied so they they usually are satisfied and this only two hundred and fifty thousand right now is right under three million dollars. If you look on box office mojo two million nine hundred seventy six thousand dollars uh two million nine hundred seventy six thousand six hundred five dollars so they made well over the money multiplying it and so you know it's doing pretty good and um so going into this you know I was normally turned on uh I'm sorry I was initially turned on by Jacob Latimore. I like this guy he's real young he's only 21 years old I just looked that up and he was prominent in the movie that came out last year Collateral Beauty which had no no Naomi Harris and Will Smith. He was the character of of time and you know it was a small role but it had a nice significant punch to it and I like that there's other films that he's been a part of but now he is in Slight and what Slight is about Slight of Hands what it's about is he is a street magician man he's just out there trying to survive he's trying to hustle and that's one of the things that I really did like about his character because he's just tackling and hustling on to a home to the level I mean he's willing to damn there kill himself I mean he's putting all his health on the line to take care of himself and his little sister because his parents passed away uh his dad passed away a number of years ago so he didn't really grow up with the father figure and then his mom passed just recently so he's dealing with that just graduated high school has a younger sister that can't be over the ages of eight or nine and she is just adorable just one of the cutest little things that you can imagine and you know he he has some things going for himself but his mom died and just sometimes when you live in life and you're enjoying yourself just wham you know just something can come out of nowhere and just ruin all your plans and that is exactly what put our character bow his name is bow in the movie Jacob Latimore put him in this position swear he's like damn I don't know what I have to do but I got to survive I got to take care of my sister you know and so he starts living a life that he really doesn't want to selling drugs you know just to pay the bills and take care of his sister because of course he doesn't want to get her taken away and the first thing that I noticed that really just stood out to me in this movie that I liked a lot is the soundtrack unfortunately I'm sorry guys I did not look up who the soundtrack is by but it's a really nice soundtrack it's a really dope soundtrack I probably look it up here in the second but looks like it's taking me too long but the soundtrack stood out to me a lot in this film there was a good six or seven times where a beat were dropping my head was bobbing I was tapping my feet on the ground or doing both and I heard a few other people in the auditorium doing that with me and it just really came through very strong especially doing a lot of the montages when the film is transitioning from one point to another going from A to B and also just showing our character Bo doing his magic on the streets and whatnot it was very nice I like that and it stood out so whoever's behind that soundtrack two thumbs up to you another great thing about the movie is just the character Jacob Latimore Bo himself I mean he's a he's a nice handsome young man that you know gets the respect from all the people in his neighborhood where there's man woman child little boy little girl this person working over here he's just he's just a nice guy looks like he has his head straight on the shoulders you know doesn't want to cause any problems just we you know he's just trying to eat and you know he's very innocent too his confidence is not exactly where it needs to be he's kind of awkward socially around women around girls he just doesn't know how to talk to him and you know that's kind of funny you know I can kind of relate to that myself because you know once upon a time you know in my life when I was coming up you know when I if I was around a pretty girl I would kind of freeze up and like kind of just like uh yeah yeah you know and kind of talk like that and that's kind of how Bo was so you know I just like that a human element that you know he had within his character that just kind of made me personally relate to him more I also talked about his sister named Tina he does have a little sister named Tina uh her real name is Storm Reed like I said she's freaking adorable and the other main actor that we have is Holly played by uh Sachelle Gabriel and all three of these the two the two young ladies in Jacob Latimore they did a fantastic job with the acting I really believe them when they was in hard times and didn't know you know what was going to happen to them next especially Tina and Jacob Latimore's character Bo so the acting with all the characters was spot on that was great I really did appreciate it another character that I liked a lot that surprised me and I really didn't realize who he was until the very end of the movie because he was playing a role that I'm just not accustomed to um because I really just don't watch that much TV there's a few TV shows that I like to stick to but um the that's one of the antagonists in this movie his name is Dulay Hill or Dulay Hill uh he does a lot of TV he played and psyched um he was the black guy and uh she's all that a 90s movie um um high school drama that I grew up in and the reason why I said black guy is because if you've seen the parody spoof movie uh not another teen movie they make a big deal about joke like oh I'm the token black guy you know you have all these white people around but then there's this that one black guy that's always wearing a letterman jacket and you know is always good in sports or whatever and he played the real version and she's all that and also a number of other TV shows and he did a great job as well as the antagonist and just to get back to the plot of the film Bo is just trying to make money and he's doing street magic and he's selling drugs and he just gets into a situation so where he's like damn how did I get into the situation how am I gonna get out of it and he just really gets in too deep and he just wants to get out and the harder he tries to get out you know he he's human he makes a wrong decision here a bad decision here and it just gets him deeper into the game and he's like no what am I doing and you know I need to get out of this situation you know what the hell is going on now of course the main thing that you're kind of wanting to see is how is he doing all these magic tricks in the movie what's going on is really sleight of hand is he just that quick does he really have magical powers well you're just gonna have to see the movie for yourself of course I'm not gonna spoil it for you but the way that they were doing all that was pretty clever there was some magic tricks I'm just like man how the hell are you doing it that is just freaking impossible but you know this is an illusion that's supposed to trick you and while I don't necessarily believe in magic for real you know I'm sure there are a lot of clever ways that these magicians that's been around for a long time throughout the world throughout the country that they just have all these tricks and they're just masters of illusions and the magic that they put into this movie it was really creative the plot and story of the well it's not really a story just a running plot but you know he's just doing all these magic tricks and you know it's kind of nice just to kind of see that mixed up with you know him just trying to survive in Los Angeles you know dealing with you know a drug lifestyle every day you know putting those two elements together was something that I had never seen before and I like how the the director JD Dillard handled that he did a great job with that now some of the things that I don't like about the movie was the director this is his first feature he can sure he'll do a lot better than me than I would do a month if I tried to direct a movie but some of the times when he was transitioning between the scenes it was kind of done abruptly and kind of ruined the mood like with two characters we're engaging in a sexual act you know they will start making out and about to have sex or something but you know the way that scene went in and go to the next one it just kind of like ruined the moment for you and you know there was a few a number of long pauses and long breaks of a black screen and it just didn't flow well that only happened about three or four times and took up less than 60 seconds in the whole movie but when you're transitioning from scene to scene you wanted to flow smoothly and he could have did a little bit better there in my opinion something else that I just really didn't care for is I understand that Bo is in a tight situation and he's in certain he's in certain situations to where he has to think quickly but there was just two key scenes to where I really did not like the decision that he made yes he is human being and nobody is perfect but to me I kind of really wanted him to stand up to his adversaries more stand up for himself more and in doing these scenes he was just really easily influenced and I really just didn't care for that and like I said the the villain of the film or one of the antagonists Angelo played by Dulay Hill he did a great job I really did like his character I was very surprised because I just never really was turned on by his acting before but in this one he came across as a charming guy that you know can be trustworthy but at the same time you know you live in this type of lifestyle you just don't know and you have to be careful and you know when the crap was about to hit the fan you know I was like okay damn you know okay this guy is serious he is not joking around he wants his drugs he wants his money and if you try to screw this guy he you know he's not going to be holding any punches you know he's going to let you know don't f me over again no matter if you're on his side or you're against him initially and but the thing about it is while he came across as a true villain or a true bad guy I still respected his character because in the end he had a cold and he lived by the cold and it's just like okay honor me don't screw me over uh and you know whether you like it or not I mean if somebody screwed him over you know he let he did let them know in the beginning uh that's still he's still a bad guy but you know he had a cold that you know he lived by and you know that I could respect you know I really like that overall the movie is a fun movie I really did enjoy it I went in with mediocre to low expectations and came out smiling as I was walking out the theater over an hour ago I kind of turned back to somebody walking out of me I was like hey you know it's pretty good and you know he was like yeah it was pretty good and I was laughing in the theater I cared about the characters I was really interested in seeing how this is going to play out but one point in time doing the movie I was kind of standing myself okay there really is no plot to this movie other than him just trying to get out we he just got a bow did not set a goal to where he's taking necessary steps you know to where you know he can his goal can come into fruition towards the end it's just we're seeing him live his everyday life and we don't know where he's going but at one point kind of doing the second act you do kind of set yourself okay you know this is what the movie is about this is where it's trying to go okay that's cool I guess we can just run with that and then you accept it and you just kind of want the movie to end and there's just one more little thing towards the end that kind of had to do with the magic because there is a climax towards the end of the movie that I really did enjoy it was intense it was also funny and it did remind me oh okay snap this movie is read it or crap you know I forgot about that but I was kind of saying to myself okay if you're gonna post a scene like this wouldn't it have been more realistic if you use this device instead of this device I don't want to spoil it for you here if you see the movie you're obviously gonna know what I'm talking about but I think the director thought of that and did little key things that you know made it make sense because you know just if you're going into a drug dealer's house to wreck shop and seek revenge um you know you're going to have to you know get down and dirt as soon as you get there and I think the director handed that well so it's not a big gripe uh it's just a small one just a little nitpick but overall guys I really did enjoy the movie if I had to write uh if I had to rate um slight out of a one out of ten I would give it a seven out of ten yes a seven out of ten but guys this movie has been out for about a week now have you seen it already do you want to see it have I turned you one have I turned you off do you agree with me or do you disagree with me let me know in the comment section below let's get this conversation going and keep it flowing hey guys I'm a Marvel fan and I really want to go to the red carpet premiere of Black Panther that comes out February of next year is it a good chance that I will go possibly not you know it is a long shot but I'm going for it because I believe in myself and you should believe and you should believe and me too so help me out guys by commenting and subscribing and doing all that stuff to give me the exposure to get to that red carpet if you like this video go ahead 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