Barbershop (2002)

Starring: Ice Cube, Cedric The Entertainer, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve
Duration: 102 minutes
Rating: M
reviewer: jei

Ok I was quite reluctant to see this film as I haven't heard of its title before. But the DVD was sitting on the coffee table and so I popped it in. After you watch the film you will question yourself, how can this have happened in real life?

Basically this is a very art house type of film with many parts of the movie where the characters will make you go “aduh” and “wtf”. Actually this movie is full of “LIKE ADUH!!” and “WHAT THE?!” running throughout. In the movie we see best friends Marty and Bobby doing some queer-like things that will make you a bit sick. Later the characters develop and we realise that Bobby has been bullying poor Marty ever since he was born. The solution? Marty, his girlfriend and some other teenagers living on dope then conspire to kill Bobby the poor bastard. Sounds a bit whack, but once you see the movie, you’ll see why.

Did I mention this flick is contraversal? Like all arthouse-type films, it’s got all aspects of an R rated film such as: teenagers doing dope, people stabbing a poor sod, people having sex all over the place. Man this has got to be one of the most contraversal films I’ve seen in my whole life. The opening line, “I want you to suck on my big c***”, immediately think “wtf, what kind of a movie is this”.

8 / 10

Watch it ‘cuz: you'll hardly believe it was based on a true story. riveting.