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Weakest Film of the Series


The first two films in the franchise were a clever reinvention of the horror genre, but the subsequent films have provided diminishing returns and this was by far the weakest. Maybe the most insulting element was the benevolent drug dealer trope. Drug dealers care about money, immediate family, and maintaining power. Breaking Bad was a perfect example of this. Completely unbelievable that in the course of one evening Dmitri would transform himself from a dealer who kills his own neighbors into Nelson Mandela.

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Fully agree.
I like the first 3.
This one felt like a school project written and acted by amateurs who want to appease to the woke Twitter and Instagram crowd.

The acting from the female lead was hilariously bad.
I'm not a Trumptard or white, but also not a hoodlum lover. This movie glorified the ghetto trash culture and promoted anti-white paranoid sentiments among black people.

The "hero" was hard to take serious, for an endless amount of reasons.

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School project for the Twitter crowd is a perfect description for this mess.

The second film (Anarchy) had both heroes and villains from various races which is much closer to real life.

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