i go into this movie think it would be a non cliché and modern portrayal of graffiti culture in ny . only to see in the first 2 minute and a guy break dance with a boombox and in front of a muraled wall . maybe it be a flashback of the main character a a kid . but it seem that would only make sense if the lead character be 30yrs old . i try to give this movie a chance . but there be just too many thing that bug me . the writing for instance and all the graffiti terminology be incorrectly use . when a graffiti writer go bomb he do not go out and do full illegal mural . nobody even mention do fill in or throwups which be the most commonly used term or act by graf writer . they call them piece in the movie and which be completely wrong . those be just some example . it become pretty obvious that the filmmaker know little or nothing about graffiti . just because you know about sane and smith and and hear a couple chase story from your nyu buddy and isn not enough to go out and make a significant graffiti movie . there be some cool cinematography in this and which isn not bad . but that it . storyline be similar to the like of wild style or beat street ( a hip hop love story ) . but even those movie be make with less pretension than this .