Hands Up

The topic and quality of this film are bad. This is a B movie at best, more like a high school play. The acting is bad, direction is amateur, plot is by crayons. Just as study after study shows, the hands up narrative used by Michael Brown is fake. If you remember, the title of the movie is taken from that case where a dozen witnesses said he had his hands up and was begging for his life when he was shot by the cop. At trial, they all recanted. Turns out he had just committed another felony and had assaulted the cop and tried to take his weapon when he was shot. This movie is that silliness played out on the big screen but with the lie intact. Skip it.

This movie is pure fantasy propaganda. Besides the acting, directing etc being beyond horrible, none of this ever happened in real life.

From the tired stock footage in the opening to the wooden over the top bad acting you can easily skip this mess.

What did I just watch? I lived in Chicago during the blm riots and this ain't it.

Three times during the Summer of Peace my South Loop neighborhood was attacked by blm rioters. The third time was in August over a lie. BLM activist said an unarmed black youth was killed by the cops. He was 18, wasn't killed, and had a gun. That didn't stop the criminals from attacking our hood for a third time.

The national guard also protected my neighborhood for two weeks. I had to show ID to just drive home from work.

Movies like this pretend the criminals are the victims. It's disgusting and is played out so amateurish.

This was a great film. The acting was good and it featured a lot of real locations throughout the west side that made it very realistic. I will definitely watch it again. I'm glad I brought it instead of renting it!

Hats off to the director and executive producer of this movie!! This is the first movie and directorial premiere for the director/writer! I thought the movie was very good and captured a weekend of events of real life in Chicago!!! Anyone from the Westside of Chicago will appreciate seeing familiar neighborhoods and landmarks and the majority of the actors/extras in the movie are from the neighborhood and it was really COOL seeing them shining brightly on the big screen! Please don't let the negative reviews distract you from watching...give the movie a chance for yourself! Can't wait for the writer/director to make his next film!! (Shout out to Atwater (Chicago P. D) so handsome!!)