The Contract

I really wanted to like this little short animated film. I am a big fan of (western-non-japanimation)(see heavy metal, heavy traffic, allegro non-troppo, fantastic planet)work, and it was with a lot of curiosity that I stumbled on this piece in a pawn shop. The DVD is divided into 9 chapters, each with a new piece of the puzzle that makes up the "treach" character's life. I loved the realistic street dialogue, with all the curse words and some nudity. For a very brief moment or two, I actually felt the fearless pulse of a Ralph Bakshi work. But unfortunately, this animation itself, can not even hold a candle to his work.

In fact, that's my only real complaint about the whole thing. Many of the backgrounds in the animation appear to be pixelated (!)or overblown, and at time we're reduced to a comic strip like approach where the characters are talking, but nobody's moving. This project looks as though, they had some good ideas, script, and voice talent, and then ran out of money or backing for the project, but put it together anyway.

If you're a big animation fan, or a fan of the the Urban gangster genre, check out this little piece. Maybe somebody can re-make this one day, or make some other material in this same vein, and be able to put the creative work deserving of a story like this one.

Great accompaniment for the "Love and a Bullet" live action movie the DVD has extras such as deleted scenes, alternate ending

But as an black animated movie its great goes deeper into the psyche of Bishop

Go cop it