if you love deep cover and you might like this film as well . many of the poetic interlude fishburne recites in deep cover be from the lyrical script of once in the life and a screen adaptation of a play that fishburne write . if you love larry as much a i do and you will love this film that be all larry and all hot and and all flesh out . of course there be gun play and illicit substance use and this be a gangster movie of sort and after all and but the script be beautiful and the story be touch and even a little on the chick flick side . amazing film . dark and frightening and sexy and and excite . if you ever sneak out at night or hung out in a clubhouse and you will get the proper impact of the cramped set ( metephorically echo be trap in the life ) . full of clever foreshadowing and complex relationship and this film be tight . every sentiment mirror in the set dressing and camera shot . good work .