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Cheesy movie and photo at the end


Cheesy is the only word I can think of to describe this movie.

It was like a watered down version of 'Taken' (or nearly any other movie of that genre), designed for mid-west farm wives who have never been to a big city.

And having watched this movie, largely set in Detroit, I would never have guessed that over 80% of the population in Detroit was black or African American! The demographics were way more like those of Salt Lake City, Utah.

But anyway, at the movie's end, there was a photo with 3 girls surrounding one guy in the centre. What was with the dude's hair? He looked vaguely familiar, but I cannot place seeing him earlier in the movie. And certainly not with that hair!

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Wasn't that one of the main male characters, either the Joe Lando security guy or the other main person in the office who brought in the money? They would have done his hair just like they jazzed up the girl as a modeling thing ... haven't you ever watched Top Model? They get really outre. I did feel badly that the girls all got their modeling break here except for the, since you mention it, one black girl who ... *spoiler* ... got offed.

Yeah, I'm from Detroit, and I'm not sure there are too many whites left; I was kind of surprised at the cop who took offense at his city being dissed as he had grown up there. Yes, if he's 60. But the city really ought to get more mixed in the future. According to my brother, there are whole tracts of land that have been razed; wild animals virtually could roam through there, and some do, as I understand it ... Michigan has had a coyote problem, from what I understand, and deer are ubiqitous; of course, deer are everywhere, even where I live in Florida. Anyway, if someone actually did redevelopment, Detroit could become a very interesting mix of professionals living in lofts near downtown and housing developments. It would take a lot of money and grit, and the city power structure apparently dragged everything down for years. It's an interesting place, though, and I give the movie credit for also seeming to have shown Suzanne with a changed opinion of Detroit. But was that Detroit ... or New York on which we zoomed through the window in the end?

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