This film begins with a prostitute by the name of "Angie" (Chasity Nicole) and her pimp "Slim" (Jeff Horner) having sex in a hotel room. Although everything starts off well enough, he then becomes violent and fearing for her life Angie hits him over the head with a bottle which ends up killing him. Not knowing what else to do, she quickly gathers her belongings and leaves the hotel room resulting in the maid discovering the body the next day. That night, Angie meets up with four other prostitutes and essentially tries to fill as their manager during Slim's unexplained absence. What nobody realizes, however, is that a violent convict named "Tez" (Cortez Maxwell) has just been released from prison and plans to take over the territory once controlled by Slim--and this has severe consequences for all concerned. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this is one of those low-budget films that had a certain amount of potential which was clearly not realized. Of particular concern was the audio irregularities which sometimes caused me to turn up the volume to understand what was being said only to have my speakers almost blown out when one of the characters started yelling all of a sudden. Likewise, in one particular scene the decision was made to play some rap music at the same time some of the characters were having a conversation. Naturally, everything was totally incomprehensible. Needless to say, neither of these things should ever happen and, whoever the sound technician was, he shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a movie set ever again. Not just that, but this rather obvious defect should have also been picked up during the editing process--and the fact that it wasn't points right at the director (Robert L. Parker III) who, by the way, was also credited as the film editor as well. Given this sad circumstance, although the acting was clearly second-rate, I find it difficult to criticize any of the actors too harshly. Along those same lines, there were a couple of actors--most notably Chasity Nicole, Cortez Maxwell and possibly Kamaria King (as "Jade")--who might have possibly made a difference with competent direction. Sadly, this was not the case and, given the obvious faults just mentioned, I cannot rate this film any higher than I have.
