Jimmy Zip

This film explores the troubled life of a young man with no hope and no future. His home life is one of abuse which drives him out to the streets. With no clue about what will happen next, he is led along a path ladened with interesting characters, violence, possible love, and job security in a shady industry.

The acting was actually pretty good overall, the visual effects done perfectly, the environment believable. I really didn't think of this as an independent movie while watching, instead I got lost in the story which moves along at a well calculated pace.

The only detractor is some points of the film are a little hokey, but hey, most Hollywood films blow this terrific film out of the water with hokeyness.

Most movies have inconsistencies and/or are unrealistic in some ways but this movie is unusually as realistic as any fictional movie is. I do not know how likely such a thing is to happen but it could. The main reason not to like this movie is that there is not enough happiness and such, but that's life.

Throughout most of the movie there are enough surprises to make what will happen next quite a mystery.

I think I made it about fifteen minutes into this movie. The moment that shut me down was the extremely lame, evil drug dealer. Did the writer ever travel to any places with drug dealers or street people? The only reason I rented it was because, somehow, a trailer for the short film starring Justin Whalin was on another video I had seen. I was extremely confused as to why they didn't credit Whalin on the box and picked it up. Don't bother with this.

I agree that the positive comments on this site are probably from people involved in producing this crap.

Go rent "Brick" or "The Chumscrubber".

This is a bad movie. I think that the good reviews on IMDB have come from those involved in the making of the movie. The acting is the worst part of the film as everyone's efforts seem amateur. Rent "Fresh" to see a much better movie about a teen caught up in a criminal lifestyle. Very poor effort.

Brendan Fletcher shines in this movie. I was immediately drawn into his story and was rooting for him throughout the whole film. Definitely worth seeing.