Meet the Blacks (2016)

Meet the Blacks: Directed by Deon Taylor. With Mike Epps, Gary Owen, Zulay Henao, Bresha Webb. As Carl Black gets the opportunity to move his family out of Chicago in hope of a better life, their arrival in Beverly Hills is timed with that city’s annual purge, where all crime is legal for twelve hours.

“Have you ever seen a movie that represents reality poorly? Ah, well. It is a comedy, right?u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI like Mike Epps, but this film might as well have been a cartoon. There were a few short laughs; The biggest laugh by far was Mike Tysonu0026#39;s brief role. He had me rolling. The rest of the comedy was based on u0026quot;stuck in the 1930u0026#39;su0026quot; style racist humor.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eWhite people are represented as universally villainous and overtly racist; Which is supposed to be a joke, but the lines just seem so unnatural that there is no way it could sound authentic. Its like someone went through the film in post production and tried to ad-lib some racist white people from books written a century ago.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI was mostly disappointed in the comedy, bored by the action, and even a great scene with Charlie Murphy couldnu0026#39;t raise the bar on this film. The kids were annoying, the family was deranged, and Mike Epps himself seems too old for the sh*t-head gangsta roles he always seems to get. Casually dropping the N-bomb while looking disinterested and lanky was his main appeal in most films and I think the amusement of that character has run itu0026#39;s course.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMike, you can play roles where the character has an IQ over 70, I promise! Err…I assume you can.”