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Ella-May O'Brien Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Nadine Salakov "Setup" is about three friends who are into criminal activity and one of the three friends betray the other two."Sonny" (50 Cent) stops at nothing to find the former friend/betrayer "Vincent" (Ryan Phillippe). We find out near the end of the movie that "Vincent" betrayed his friends for money to pay to keep his father "William" (James Remar) in protective custody in prison. "Vincent" is the most stupidest character, it looks like his father is going to be in prison for a very long time, so you're just going to keep paying thousands of dollars every single month to keep him protected? very silly, "Vincent" is acting like the parent which is very patronising, bottom line his dad is in prison because of the choices that he made, it isn't the son's problem, if the situation were reversed it's unlikely that his dad would do the same for him, considering the way he talks to his son when he visits him in prison, there doesn't seem to be any love at all for his son.All the characters are foolish at one point due to getting involved in crime, but "Sonny" has a change of heart and chooses not to kill "Vincent" out of revenge, the Christian theme is good, but a major error is when the priest says "God can ALMOST forgive anything", there is no "almost", God forgives anything and everything, no matter how dark it is, when people ask God for forgiveness, He forgives!The famous sentence "No honour among thieves" is proved in this motion picture, so it shouldn't actually be surprising to the characters and to the viewers that one would turn against the others."Setup" is only about an hour and a half, it is fast-paced and never boring, the mob aspect doesn't outweigh the rest of the plot, thank God (it doesn't get anymore boring than mob depictions) Bruce Willis playing a mobster is annoying, but he is just a supporting character.Cinematographer Steve Gainer does a good job with the blue tint, it gives the movie a down to earth gritty vibe.There are not many interesting crime thrillers out there, but "Setup" is a must-watch.

canadiancole-92-872935 I could use a lot more than 10,000 words telling you how bad this movie is, but I think I will focus on the worst parts to save time.3 friends from high school get together and commit crimes to support themselves and their families in "Detroit", a city so down on it's luck it can't afford police officers anymore. (Seriously...There is a 10 minute "chase scene" with gunfire through crowded malls and café's and never once do you hear a siren) After successfully completing a "5 million" dollar diamond heist, done in a crowded intersection and shooting up half the cars and buildings on the street in the process, one of the three happy high school comrades goes "Brutus" on his pals and shoots them both in the head. Err...Shoulders....killing one instantly (obviously. Shoulders are where criminals hearts are.)At this point "50 Cent", stumbles through 60 minutes of terrible dialogue and music, seeking vengeance, and casually dropping off corpses at a place where a weird guy grinds them into hamburger. (There should be one on every corner IMO.) At some point you learn that the "betrayer" killed his best friends because he wanted to pay a 100,000 dollar bribe to keep his deadbeat dad alive in prison. OH! By the way, he also has a sister who was the driver of the private car that they heisted at the beginning. (Shocker....you'd think his high school buddies would know her and recognize her...)Finally...The strange religious under-tones and random 1 on 1 therapy with the local priest...combined with the "random acts of kindness and charity" around every corner makes me feel like the movie is just Bible Thumper Propaganda.In the end...50 Cent drives off into the night in the most "unrecognizable/inconspicuous powder blue Classical car in the world" with 1 million in cash, after a diamond heist, a snatch and grab, a gun battle/foot chase, grinding up a corpse, buying drugs, arranging for an organized crime mass culling that he manages to just duck his head and run through. Yeah...At least he doesn't kill his friend! 50 cent be too good for that --- you feel me?

ebroux I normally don't write reviews on here but most reviews on here do this movie injustice. It is not nearly ad bad as the score make it out to be.Is this movie predictable? Yes. Does it have clichés and déjà-vu moments? Yes. But what did you expect with a plot that has been done 1 000 000 times before (Heat, The Town, ...). As far as I know most people know about the plot before watching a movie so you know it contains all these flaws before watching it. So don't watch it if you're like: 'this has been done.' If you're a fan of crime/heist movies: watch it!The acting isn't bad at all (but then again I like the acting of Dwayne Johnson). The actors aren't Robert De Niro or Al Pacino but they get the job done.All in all, the movie kept me entertained throughout.

lovecraft231 You know, if your going to pinpoint one person as being symbolic of everything that is wrong with straight-to-video movies, it's pretty much ridiculous. I mean, they're straight-to-video movies. Nobody expects anything worthy of mention for them. Yet, that is exactly what I am going to do.Rapper 50 Cent is symbolic of much of what is wrong with straight-to-video movies. It's funny how this guy went from being one of the biggest rappers on earth to a regular in such movies, but he's got a s#!t load of money, so he act/produce these movies. With "Setup", he somehow brings in two bigger stars-Ryan Phillipe and Bruce Willis of all people-into his world of mediocrity.Mr. Cent stars as Sonny, who along with his best friend, is shot (way to be subtle about one of your claims to fame) by Vincent Long (Phillipe) after a heist gone wrong, and now wants revenge. To get this revenge, he teams with the mob, which always works well in these movies. When the mob's muscle Petey (Randy Courture, in a rather thankless role) is shot, and things start to go south, mob boss Biggs (Willis) wants something done about all this.I will say these two things: Willis is good (though only around for like 10 minutes total) and the production values look much better than most straight-to-video movies. Then again, this did cost $20 million to make, which seems like a bit much for something like this, but hey. Apart from that, this is your typical bad cop/heist/whatever movie from Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment. That means there's a bad soundtrack made up of dull rock and uninteresting rap, badly written character drama, mostly bad acting (Phillipe's performance could be called bipolar, as he goes from committed to looking like he doesn't want to be there), plot points like a pseudo-religious angle that go nowhere, plot holes the size of craters, and no reason to care about anyone or anything that happens.Then there's 50 Cent. Look, there are rappers that have proved themselves to be good to decent actors. Look at Ice Cube, Ice T, RZA and Mos Def for example. 50 Cent is not one of those good actors. Next to Master P, he's the worst rapper trying his hand at acting I've ever seen. This is a man who is completely void of anything resembling dramatic chops, charisma or screen presence, and serves more as a vacuum than he does an actor. And that's one of the reasons why he's so bad for these kinds of movies. Sure, Phillipe and Willis are clearly there for the paycheck-that or they were blackmailed or owed somebody a favor-but guys like James Remar are talented guys. Yet, this is a vanity project for a man who couldn't act to save his life.If you are a hardcore 50 Cent fan (though I doubt that kind of thing still exists), you will want to see this. Everyone else is better off reading a book or something.