Sordid, slow and stupid, “True to the Game 2” is a drug-trade sequel to the 2017 thriller about falling in love with a drug dealer and paying the price.
An opening scene shoot-out and a trio of coordinated brawls in the finale are little compensation for the tedium in between.
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Vivica A. Fox returns as Shoog, streetwise tough gangster who leads Bria (Iyana Halley) in a revenge hijacking of a drug shipment intended for drug boss Jerrell (Andra Fuller).
Poor Jerrell figured he was done with drug dealer Quadir’s minions after taking him out in the first film. He hadn’t counted on the dead drug dealer’s family.
The haul? “A meal ticket,” which is a cool million in cocaine-and-cash-speak.
“It’s gonna be an early Christmas in the (Philly) hood!” Shoog figures.
Gena (Erica Peeples) buried Quadir, finished grad school and is now a workaholic at a New York fashion webzine. She lives large — larger than any mere online mag writer could manage. Yes, she has drug money backing up her lifestyle.
But that bloody shootout that opens the picture has Jerrell and his minions — one played by model and former “Hot Felon” Jeremy Meeks — hunting high and low for those who hit him. That sends Saleem (Meeks) into Quadir’s memorial service and Jerrell off on a hunt for Gena, who decides to drive her Range Rover to California to do an assignment on an LA cannabis king.
That’ll eat up the two week vacation her borderline-harassing boss forces her to take.
The middle acts — full of asking around, intrigues, costume changes and little that animates the plot even if, in theory, scenes do advance it (sort of) — stop “2” dead in its tracks.
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We lose track of the hardened anchor of all this, Fox, and dwell on the bar hopping, drinks, kidnappings, threats and what have you that it takes to get Jerrell and his man Saleem closer to their quarry.
- TRUE TO THE GAME II, picks up a year after the first installment of True to the Game, following the the lives of the characters affected by Quadir's murder. Drama / Romance. Opened November, 6th 2020.
- TRUE TO THE GAME II, picks up a year after the first installment of True to the Game, following the the lives of the characters affected by Quadir's murder. Separating herself from Philly'sdangerous scene while still mourning from the death of Quadir, Gena has reinvented herself as a journalist, living and working in NYC. At a crossroads in her career Gena comes across an opportunity to go to.
Meeks lands one good thug line, announced to a prisoner he’s slapping around in the trunk of his ride.
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“STOP! You gonna KILL me?”
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“You in the trunk. You already dead.”
The only chuckles are in the memorial service, where Faith Evans sings and Quadir’s mom talks about what “a good boy, a good MAN” her son was.
He was a DRUG dealer. But sure.
All this violence — in New York, Philly and LA — has people in the center of the action “on edge.”
“It’s Philly. People are BORN on edge.”
Love V.A. Fox, but when you leave her out, you’re not being “True to the Game.”
The acting is uneven, the action not awful but not great either (some of the stage punches are obvious) and the ending a total cheat.
Aside from that…
MPA Rating: R for violence, pervasive language, sexual content, nudity and drug content
Cast: Vivica A. Fox, Erica Peeples, Andra Fuller, Jeremy Meeks, Iyana Halley, Rotimi, Tamar Braxton
Credits. Directed by Jamal Hill, script by Preston A. Whitmore II, based on a novel by Teri Woods. An Imani Media Group release.
Running time: 1:33
2020, R, 93 min. Directed by Jamal Hill. Starring Erica Peeples, Andra Fuller, Jeremy Meeks, Iyana Halley, Vivica A. Fox, Niatia Kirkland, Michael King, Bre-Z, Rotimi, Tamar Braxton, Starletta DuPois.
REVIEWED By Steve Davis, Fri., Nov. 6, 2020
True to the Game 2 begins with a Philadelphia bang as four women in bejeweled and studded masks brazenly hijack a bread truck stocked with loaves of cocaine in broad daylight. Their motive? To settle a score with middle-tier drug distributor Jarrell Jackson (Fuller), the ruthless lowlife transporting the $1 million powdery shipment who murdered coke kingpin Quadir Richards a year earlier in 2017’s True to the Game. But this get-even storyline — not to mention its intriguing gender angle — in the script by part one director Preston A. Whitmore II quickly evaporates as the crime-story narrative shifts to Jarrell hunting down the bitches (his words) who wiped out his inventory.
Believing well-off Manhattan journalist and the late Quadir’s fiancée Gena Hollins (Peeples) may be one of the perpetrators of the heist (or at least, a cash-cow substitute), he follows her to L.A. where she has driven cross-country, duffel bags of Benjamins in tow, on a freelance interview assignment. (The source of Gena’s wealth is a mystery. Shitloads of money just arrive at her doorstep without explanation.) There, Jarrell poses as a sincere brother romantically interested in her, and she inexplicably falls for it. Payback themes aside, this sequel is ostensibly about Gena getting back into game of life, one that you’re constantly reminded is a Sheila E. glamour fantasy of white Range Rovers, Bulgari luxury sunglasses, chauffeured transportation, and horseback rides on the beach. The movie dangles this ostentatious display of affluence like a diamond-encrusted carrot, hoping the audience is hungry for a bite.
Apart from the nowhere storyline devoid of any interesting character development or conflict, the movie feels vaguely exploitative, with most of the obligatory skin bared by females playing sex workers (the exception: King’s tattooed boy toy) and the n-word bandied about for what supposedly passes as street cred. The actors are limited, given the material (leads Fuller and Peeples stumble more than once, particularly in their early scenes), though both Fox as Quadir’s firebrand sister and Meeks as Jarrell’s cold-blooded right-hand man make the proverbial silk purse. The extensive use of flashbacks revives some of the relevant scenes from the original movie, but at some point, you’ll probably not care whether you either know about or can recall those details.
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Like its predecessor, the movie is based on a novel by Teri Woods, who initially self-published her urban fiction thrillers in the late Nineties to impressive sales before a major publishing house re-released them. The ending of this sophomore adaptation is open-ended, no doubt in anticipation of a possible film version of the third book in Woods’s trilogy. Another stab at the TTTG series could only yield more satisfying results. Directionally speaking, the only way is up.