Guilty by Association (2003)
There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for himself. Unfortunately, without any prospects in sight, he gets lured back into the only world he knows....crime. He gets in touch with his former best friend who has since "made it big" as a drug dealer during his time in prison. But what starts out as a partnership which promises to get them both out of the projects, soon turns rotten as money comes between the two. As loyalties are divided, anger and violence erupt... destroying anyone who gets in the way. Innocent victims get caught in the crossfire and its up to one man, Police Lieutenet Redding (Morgan Freeman) to take matters into his own hands and stop the needless deaths before it's too late.
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the leading man is my tpye
Lack of good storyline.
A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action
A Brilliant Conflict
All, This is not a movie. Its like 4 minutes of cut scenes of Morgan Freeman standing over a grave in a trench coat, he mumbles a few times, rubs his brow and then the rest of the movie is not film but someone with a camcorder trying to fill time inbetween the same shots of Morgan Freeman. These guys cashed in on a notable actor back when there was DVD and when Shawshank was playing 4 times a day on TBS and TNT. I'd rate the story or film, but there is none to rate. I'd say watch it if you want to learn what not to do out of film school (or if you never went).Please note there is ZERO production notes, actors, producers, or editors listed on IMDb. Where have you ever seen that? Not even an editor wants to claim this piece of.... work.... for himself. Good night and good luck.
"Sometimes first instincts are wrong"I walked into a Blockbuster with my mom & we saw Morgan Freeman's face taking up most of the cover of this one. I believed that the rule of movie covers is that actors with more than 5 minutes of on screen time have their pictures placed on the cover. I think about that twice now when I rent a movie. My mom loves Morgan & I thought he was awesome in "The Shawshank Redemption" & "Bruce Almighty" but I was a little skeptical about this one. Straight to video movies are tricky that way. To this day I have no idea what the point to this movie was or why Morgan Freeman even bothered being in the biggest waste of celluloid since "Manos: The Hands of Fate". Perhaps he did it as a favor. Basically all he does is put his head against a doll he's holding & fail to convince a guy to come out of his apartment. I wonder how much they paid him to do that? I could do that. There was violence in this "film" but no blood. How can that be explained? A little girl was sitting at the top of a slide, got shot, & slid down the slide dead. There was no bullet hole & there was no blood streaked down the slide. A guy was stabbed in prison, & there was no blood on whatever it was that stabbed him (can't remember) & no blood on his orange jumper. Another guy shot himself in the head. No blood & his funeral was open casket. 1st of all, I thought that when someone gets shot in the head, they can't have an open casket funeral. I might be wrong but that would be gross. 2nd of all, if they decided to sew that area shut (which wouldn't make a bit of sense but then again this movie didn't make sense) his face still would've been a mangled mess. The complete absence of blood in a movie rated "R" for violence & other stuff wasn't even the worst of it. The dialogue was horrible & I couldn't even understand what was being said most of the time. It could've been the crappy sound or the actors mumbling through their lines. If you want to be a filmmaker or an actor, take a look at this & "Manos" to see how a movie shouldn't be done. 0/10
I only rented the movie because Morgan Freeman was in it and it turns out he wasn't really in it at all. He should be ashamed to associate his name with this trashy effort - I can't even call it a movie. It is a shame I can no longer associate Morgan Freeman with quality films without first checking reviews. Thanks for the opportunity to trash this stinker. The doggie style scenes did it for my grown up daughter. It was the final straw in an already straw ridden catastrophe.
This movie has an awesome plot, and a very important message behind it. The problem is, due to the most annoying and bad acting I have seen recently, this movie bombs.Even Morgan Freeman can not save this one. He is seen for maybe a total of ten minutes during the entire film. His role is to say the least, meaningless.The thing is, if you can suffer through the bad acting and the slow pace that this movie goes at. It does have an important message about what gangs, drugs, and violence lead to.I do not recommend this movie.