Review of Setup

Setup (I) (2011)
6/10
Huge cast, small plot
11 September 2011
One thing I haven't understood, why a movie can pull up a cast like the trio in the post but can not have a decent story. An old school big score goes wrong and revenge isn't that much of a plot. The ending is just so-so, no surprise, no tears and no laughters. A few monologues from 50 cent are neither funny nor enlightening. Every character has a short and non-impressive appearance before the camera and none of them is quite tangible, all cameo without the time needed to develop the character, the only exception perhaps is Bruce Willis.

And perhaps, 50 cent is still not yet a full-fledged movie star although he tried it really hard recently. His expression is still quite poor, especially when he stood beside Bruce Willis. No emotion on his face, just like a plain sheet of paper.

Man, Bruce is still good like always, managed to add something funny in this otherwise plain movie, but neither he can rescue the movie.
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