Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)

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Thanks for the memories!

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is the worst movie ever, I'm sorry! So much so that years after I watched it I came on IMDb to prove to others how truly abysmal it was only to find some reviewers gave it a higher rating because they felt it was unfairly rated less by others! Well, people rated it what they felt it deserved so I now rate it at 1 star which is absolutely what it should be rated as and hopefully the crappy overall rating will also drop. Also, I just want to point out that not long after this embarrassment of a 'film', 'fiddy' started to vanish off the scene and his popularity waned. What a surprise. Said no one ever. Also I would really like to know what pushed Terence Howard to sell out and appear in this SPOILER ALERT 'everyone wants to such 50-cent off' abomination- sorry if I gave the plot away but that's basically what this movie is aaaalllll about. 10 years on and I still can't get over how bad this movie is. I want my 2 hours back

GET RICH OR DIE Trying'It was alright, but nothing special i'm afraid.The film is about a drug dealer who is trying to make it big as a rapper.It stars 50 Cent as the drug dealer, Marcus. The story was not very gripping. It was OK, but it could have been a lot better. I was told before I saw this that it was a biopic about 50 Cent, but I don't think this is the case. I am sure there are similarities, but i am sure that there are some fictitious moments too.The acting was OK(ish), in fact, i thought 50 Cent is a better actor than a rapper.There was one comedy moment in the movie that made me laugh though... there is a scene where Marcus gets attacked in the shower by a knife wielding criminal and it turns out to be a fight... it is funny watching tough guys slipping and sliding all over the place while trying to kill each other. Haha!Also, i gotta say, there is a scene where Marcus gets shot that is really good. The effects were impressive in that scene and was quite gruesome.I really preferred 8 Mile... that film is a lot better than this. This was just a major disappointment.I will give this film a 5 out of 10.Disappointing movie...For more of my reviews, please like my Facebook page:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ordinary-Person-Movie- Reviews/456572047728204

Honestly,the overall rating is harsh on this Movie. I actually enjoyed it despite the fact that it was dull, yes. I know plenty of so called 'Dull' Movies/films/documentaries that people still enjoy watching. I mean I'll use 8 Mile and Book of Eli for examples. They are both pretty good films. Not the best, but still decent. I thought the same about Get Rich Or Die Trying' I actually like rap & hip hop stars and I'm a fan of 2Pac, Eminem, & 50 Cent. The film is relentlessly dull and depressing, yes. But people can relate to living in the ghetto like 50 Cent did. Eminem & Tupac (Along with 50 Cent) lived in the gutter to, but are still great talents. 50 Cent loves rap and gangsta. His ambition was to be a gangsta rapper. He turned away from crime to his love for rap. There is a lot of swearing and cursing, but in all honesty. If these situations were real (Some almost parallel to 50 Cent's actual life. For instance, getting shot 9 times & living to tell the tale to this day) People would swear from the sheer hard nut lives they were raised in. What happens to 50 Cents mama & having no father is tragic. And showing how he was really brought up & raised by his grandparents is pretty terrifying. The film feels is pretty realistic and I love realism in a movie. 50 Cent ain't that bad of an actor (He's not the best actor) His talent for rap though in my opinion is over average. I think It's worth watching through at least once. People need to ease up on the negative Reviews. Honestly, It's really not a bad film at all. Go for it!

I remember when this movie came out, it was universally panned across the board. "50 Cent can't act," "The script is terrible," "The dialogue sounds like it was written by a third grader," "What's so special about 50 Cent that he needs his own movie?" I stayed away from it for years, but then I happened to watch my first Jim Sheridan movie recently, "The Boxer." It was well-acted, well-crafted, the tone was consistent and dark throughout the movie, while illuminating the viewer into a world that he or she may never have seen before, all while putting well-rounded characters through the ringer. This plus universally positive reviews of every Jim Sheridan movie except this one, made me wonder if IMDb users (statistically mostly white teenagers) weren't just hating on this movie out of typical cultural bias. If you run down the list, after all, most every "urban" film, regardless of quality, gets a pretty low rating on this website. Sometime it's deserved. But sometimes it isn't."Get Rich or Die Trying'" isn't a terrible film, and is far better than the current 4.1 rating it currently holds, which would put it on par with Uwe Boll movies and any post-Oscar Nicolas Cage movie. While it isn't Citizen Kane, it's better than all of those, a well-crafted drama that could be enjoyed by anyone, whether or not they enjoy rap music.Can 50 Cent act? He's not terrible. At no time does he look like he's reciting lines, and his natural charisma plus Jim Sheridan's direction makes for a passable performance. He's not better or worse than, say, Mark Wahlberg, who has a similarly limited range, but has utilized it to great effect.Is the script terrible? No. It gets clichéd in parts (the beginning of the first flashback is the most over-used cliché in movies like this, and was parodied over a decade ago in "Don't Be a Menace..."), but overall tells a tight, fleshed-out story that wavers only periodically between poetry and cheese. 90% of the time, it walks the line between the two and does a credible job. Every character is well-drawn with their motivations clear, with the notable exceptions of Charlene and Bama. The script makes no effort to show who they are or why they act the way they do, and while the actors work to show depth to what's on the page, ultimately it is a large flaw in the film-- but this is no better or worse than any other Hollywood film, that fails to give dimension to even one female character.Is 50 Cent worthy of his own movie? Look. He's not Elvis. He's not the Beatles, or Johnny Cash, or NWA, or Jay-Z. His music is middling at best and even in 2011 he's still a one-hit wonder. So if 50 Cent isn't as towering in the music game as all these others, the question we must then ask is: Is his story worthy of being told, if Marcus were played by someone other than Curtis '50 Cent' Jackson? The dude was shot five times and lived. His mother died on the streets. He made it out, and made enough of an impression to get a movie like this one made. Even if you don't like his music, it's a story we don't often see, and one worthy of being told... not unlike 'The Boxer.' There's a moment early on, in the first scene, where our main characters are riding to a robbery, and 50 Cent is playing on the soundtrack. We catch Marcus himself lip-syncing to the radio... in essence, lip-syncing to HIMSELF. I don't think that's a coincidence. The music is Any Music, the time is Any Time. It's a dramatic epic and reflection of a specific time, with painstaking detail used to recreate music, culture, and fashion, of a culture we don't see often given respect on film. Yet despite the specifics, it manages to remain a universal story for any community that has to face this kind of violence, and Jim Sheridan clearly knew this when he signed on.Upon the films release, teenagers may have been expecting "Scarface," and this wasn't it. Adults may have been expecting a typical urban violence-fest, and stayed away... but the film wasn't that, either.Ultimately, despite some fantastic camera-work, Sheridan didn't make art on the level of 'The Boxer,' and certainly not on the level of 'My Left Foot,' 'In the Name of the Father,' or 'In America.' But 4.1? It certainly deserves better than THAT. Six years on, and the film is no longer a publicity stunt made solely to peddle CDs... it's just a movie, and a good one.8/10.