Rapturious (2007)

- written December 2007

Summary: Rapturious is a street rapper who has begun to earn the publicity and money he's been itching to earn for so long. Problem is, he's started doing these new drugs which is turning his brain into mush. And someone is looking for him and that can't be a good thing!           Overall: Sometimes if you read enough reviews about a film and they go one way, you go another…you wonder if maybe you just didn't get it. Maybe they're right and it just wasn't your day.           Uh, no. I'm right, they're wrong and this film makes no sense. What saves the film from being completely pummeled here is the fact the director had to cut scenes out because test audiences didn't understand them. And yet knowing what those scenes are, I'd have found the film at least more cohesive. So somehow the film fails regardless. We have a rapper who is either going insane or is possessed by a spirit of a wild west murderer. What we don't get is why he gets this drug from that particular dealer right then in his life. Why is he possessed with the murderer? Why am I supposed to believe he's going insane when we haven't seen much of his life…just heard of it. I can't buy much of the character because he goes insane basically from the moment the film starts. I can't buy why he needs the drugs because you've shown me no heartbreak - no flashbacks of anything. You want me to buy into him but give me no reason to do so. You want me to buy into his need to do drugs but then tell me how popular and rich he's becoming, then come back with why he can't afford the drugs he's ingesting. And the ending…ugh. Are the cops real or special denizens of someone? Who exactly is on his side and who is on the demon's? How did his manager know he was seeing a shrink when he never told her and you never commit that she's on anyone's side? The film is all question, no answer. It's not very good at all and needed at least 20 more minutes of plot to explain anything. As it is, it's too damn long to have this many holes. It's just a mess.           Comparison: Angel Heart meets Jerky Boys

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