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Ace Cruz didn’t just direct and write this, he also stars in it as Billy, a drug dealer who worries about what he’s doing — even as kids are shot in drive-bys while he’s sitting on a park bench — and gets angry at his girl when she’s stripping. And oh yeah, he’s friends with Todd Bridges from Diff’rent Strokes who is using the drugs they should be selling. There are some martial arts scenes — very slow ones — and an ending that is totally Carlito’s Way except that it cost about the condiment budget of craft services for that movie.
Cruz has gone on to make Psychotic, Urban Task Force, Fate, Desert of Death and Outrage: Born In Terror. But when else would he make a movie where Todd Bridges has a different woman in every single scene? That’s why I kept watching this, even when every single person sold out Billy.
