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Lottery Ticket

In addition to millions of dollars, when someone wins the lottery, they also win greedy relatives, continual litigation and multiple lightening strikes.

Fortunately, the lucky ticket-holder in this comedy only has to cope with a vindictive ex-con.

When word gets out that Kevin (Bow Wow) won the $370 million jackpot, his neighbourhood comes a-knocking.

Unable to collect his winnings for 3 days, Kevin must keep the winning ticket away from the perils of spontaneous prosperity, i.e. sexy sycophants, a loan shark (Keith David) and a local thug.

Fortunately, Kevin has an impoverished ex-boxer (Ice Cube) in his corner.

While it attempts to evoke nostalgia for old school neighbourhood-centric comedies, Lottery Ticket is a lousy torchbearer: the casting is second-rate, the characters are typecasts, and the jokes are tired.

And besides, regardless of who claims the winning ticket, in any lottery the manufacturer of the giant novelty cheque is always the winner. (Red Light)

Now this is far from being a good movie, but I find the score people are giving it is a bit harsh...sort of. I mean yeah if you seen the trailer to this movie, you basically seen the whole movie. But watching how it gets to those points was kinda fun to watch, although most of the obnoxious characters just really started to get annoying. And the stupidity of some of the characters got really annoying, I mean at first I decided to just go with it, but the stupidity was just too much at times. I will say the main highlight of this film was Terry Crews, love that guy in just about any movie he is in. Rental at best, if your in your teens and with a group of friends it's okay as well. Not as terrible as I thought it would be.

5.5/10

Lottery Ticket: Review: The film reminded me of how stupid and boring First Sunday was and this even topped that. A man finds out his neighbor has a winning lottery ticket and tries to get it. Well obviously he tries to get it. Not Good. The film is also predictable and this just might go on limited release for two weeks and then go straight to DVD. Take my word for it, you will be disappointed. But, this film doesn't seem very popular so I wouldn't worry about it so much. By the way, I will not be writing reviews any more, only starring them, so you will not be able to see any others. Sorry. But time is money. Lottery Ticket is not good.

3.6 rating? Must be my white brethren. The movie, as a morality tale, clearly makes the cut. Even though nefarious characters lend a hand, the overall message is still pretty clear: You need the community to see you through. Who's going to help you through the greed and missteps of your neighborhood.. Opie?? Sure, there were some things that were unrealistic (oh, gimme a break scenes). But the film still entertained, and communicated the eternal truth: that winning the lottery doesn't change you, it changes the people around you. Ice Cube was great, as was the entire cast. Hats off to the director, actors, and writer of this film.

Shad Moss plays a young man that found out he's won the lottery, buuuuut there's a catch...he has to survive 3 days with everytone knowing that he has it. It's 4th of July weekend.

This reminds me of a movie where the characters and the neighborhood take on a life of their own. The neighborhood is just a character as the people

I liked watching Kevin and Benny, I felt like they were brothers, always there for each other

While there is a tonal shift toward the end of the movie in a scene that doesn't fit, it does have an impact on the story.

All in all, turn your brain off and enjoy this light hearted romp through a 4th of July weekend.