Consignment (2007)

Just perfect...

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

You got Virginia Beach hustler Tommy that gets panic attacks caused by his line of work of selling drugs. His only choices are to quit what he is doing or to contiune suffering panic attacks. Tommy chooses to quit selling drugs. His boss Detroit Mike suffers from adandonment and trust issues. If a street soldier wants out of his drug crew or he feels he can't trust them they end up being killed. It could be a shooting, strangling, or beating. Detroit Mike is a border line serial killer.Tommy escapes a Detroit Mike's gunmen. He flees to sunny California with his wife that he madly loves. He connects with his criminal cousin Carmelo who has insecurity issues. To make up for it he likes to shoot people. With no job skills Tommy backslides into selling drugs with Carmelo.It's a really good urban story of pain and suffering.

This is not a pure 8 out 8 stars for Consignment. The old school bell curve is in full effect. Hands down consignment has a banging soundtrack for a low budget urban piece. Its hot. Custom Made Recordings & Babygrande Records consignment track crushes. I've been a big fan of jackin4beats.com since it started. Music makes a movie. This movie had real street music. The story is old hash. A drug dealer wants to get out of the business. Nothing new. What was new was having a black east coast drug dealer, played by jackin4beats founder by Tim Beachum, having crazy panic attacks after moving to LA to deal with latino gangsters. What was banging was action, nudity, and real looking cast. Straight up a few people were clearly cast from the streets.

I loved this full out gangster movie. It's loaded with action. Story moved quick with no let downs. Consignment had some of the most real characters I've seen in a little bit. I gotta say the striptease in this movie was FANTASTIC. The dance, the grind, the moves were electric. Too many glossy fake movies about drug dealing out there that miss the mark. Consignment landed a bullseye. What I really liked to see was the mixed cast of characters represented. You had Black, White, Latino, Asian, and Native American faces shown. That was hot to see. Another surprise was the soundtrack. I got my DVD off Amazon. Wherever you get it you check it out.

Consignment was what I would consider one of the better independent films. It is defiantly an independent film that I am proud to have as part of my collection. Here is my break down of the movie for those of you that even want to hear my two cents :-)Broken down on a scale from 1-10 (10 being the highest duh!)Visually - 10 Audio - 8 Acting - 6 (I would have given it an 8 but I couldn't stomach the wife Yolanda. How she got cast I'll never know!) Soundtrack - 10 Movie Trailer - 8... and that's my two cents... Take it or leave it!