This film doesn't know what it wants to be, inbetween juggling a gritty drama with comedic undertones it all gets lost somewhere and the film comes across as a jumbled mess. Part of the problem comes across by the desperation to give Sam a happy ending which he doesn't deserve, for some reason Sam and Alisha are best of friends now with Sam paying regular visits to her and her daughter to check in and pay her money to help out with the household, with both Alisha and her daughter being very happy to see Sam, whenever he pops around for his weekly chat. What happened to the girl who despised the site of Sam, the girl who was strong enough to face the man who murdered her daughter's father, simply to show him that she was the better person, I found it that unbelievable I didn't even realise it was Alisha untill I read it in another review. Next comes Sam's relationship, it turns out the girl from adulthood died and for some reason he ends up with the girl Mooney was seeing in adulthood despite them never even meeting in adulthood let which makes it even more unbelievable. What makes this relationship even more comical is the fact that Sam cheats on her with the first girl who shows any interest which strikes me as completely out of character for his character ark he went through in adulthood. Next come the antagonists and the plot, instead of following what would have been the logical plot of Sam's brother going of the rails and being brought down to rock bottom as adulthood hinted would happen, we simply have the repeated story of Trevor trying to hunt down Sam for revenge over Trifes murder, I never once saw any hint of love in kidadulthood remember Trevor is the man who thought it would be funny to hold a gun to his nephews head, which for me just makes the two movie vendetta come across as very forced and It all just comes across as very thrown together, the villans are rediculous and instead of the realistic London gangsters from the first two films you have a man called hugs who likes to kill people by stabbing them when he hugs them yes seriously. Then finally is my biggest annoyance with the film where Sam is allowed to run away from the police at the scene of a shooting, purely because one of the police officers knew Sam growing up. That for me underlined how much this film is desperate to give the Sam the happy ending he didn't deserve, adulthood ended his story far far better yes it was bleak and left two damaged people trying to make the best from their ruined lives, but it felt appropriate and realistic for the situation that Sam landed in not the walk off into the sunshine he got in this. a wasted opportunity at best.
Review of Brotherhood
