Road to Baltimore

Luv (2013)

Directed by Sheldon Candis who also co-wrote this film it stars Common, Michael Rainey Jr., Dennis Hasybert and Danny Glover. A young boy spends the day with this recently out of prison uncle who teaches him about “business”.

Being set in Baltimore and about drug deals this film is always going to be massively over shadowed by “The Wire” and does not even come close to dealing with the subject matter as well. Most of the set up of this film is fairly cliché and you could suggest that the plot is a poor man's knock off of Road to Perdition (2002). The acting in the film is not too bad but the cast has little to work with given the weaker nature of the script.

2/5