Let me start by saying the only upside to this movie is that the main female protagonist (Seychelle Gabriel) was nice to look at because there won't be anything good said after that. Although the movie is not very predictable, it is bad. Very bad. This young man who looks about 15 years old is left to raise his sister after his parents' deaths so he turns to drug dealing and has to raise $45,000 in a week to avoid his boss killing him. His boss had already forced him to cut off the hand of a rival drug dealer and rather than raise enough money to buy a gun and kill his boss or just turn to the police, he actually attempts to raise the money, comes close, loses most of it, and has to concoct this mega plan to stop his boss from killing him all while getting his sister back after his boss kidnaps her. His sister is old enough to know who her uncles are. She didn't even call her brother to confirm someone else would be picking her up from school. The main character has telekinetic powers and still manages to get himself robbed. The writers can't be serious. The acting is bad as well, the movie is so stupid it should be considered a satirical comedy because you cannot seriously enjoy this unless you appreciate mind numbing entertainment which obviously some people do. The concept is stupid and overplayed, the plot is bad, the acting is bad, the dialogue is bad (one of the white drug dealers says "once my mixtape blows up"...), and casting a lawyer from the television series Suits (Dule Hill) as the primary antagonist is a joke. The ending is laughable, too. There are many ways to spend an hour and a half but this is not one I would ever recommend.
Review of Sleight
Sleight
(2016)
Unpredictable... but terrible. My worst rating so far.
2 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers