This movie is not perfect, it will not be a cult classic, and it is not the most deepest movie, but, this is funny as hell. God, I just loved this movie. I want to remark specially the acting, it was so good. I need to say it : I felt in love with Kiersey Clemons (Diggy), she is such a beauty !!!A thing that put me a bit down is the over positivism of this. But, is a comedy, and, because I had a very good time watching it, I can pass over it.As I said, it is not the most deepest movie, it is not a classic, but it is funny as hell.8/10

I had never heard of this film yet it was 7.3 on IMDb with over 50000+ voters.Then I saw that Pharrell Williams was an executive producer on the film, so I was "Happy" to try it - :-).What a different, enjoyable, and eventually rewarding film.The film is about someone who is not just different from the standard stereotypes, but also ..... DIFFERENT ! And that tells you all you need to know before you watch it !Watch it till the end - this film gets better and better throughout the entire film, culminating with a really rewarding end.I loved it.

Dope tells the story of Malcolm who is a promising college student who finds himself on the wrong side of the tracks when he attends an underground party and it is at this 'party' that Malcolm unwittingly acquires a large stash of drugs which two rival drug-dealers both claim to be their property. One of the drug-dealers is in police custody, but the other dealer is at large and will stop at nothing to get his hands on the drugs.In what I felt was a cross between Boyz N The Hood and City Of God, Dope is a film that to me tried to be everything all at once; it's a coming-of-age film, then it becomes a cat-and-mouse film, then it's a romance film, then it's a crime-caper type film. There's nothing wrong with combining all of these things, but in order to work a film like this has to have some kind of focus and that's really where a film like Dope falls down. In trying to do everything at once, it doesn't actually manage to really do anything very well and some of the strands of the story don't seem to get followed through properly (such as the drug-dealer chasing Malcolm for his drugs and what happened to Dom after he got arrested?). The romantic subplot between Malcolm and Dom's girl was underdeveloped (which was a shame as they clearly had a few things in common).I also felt that Dope was a film that just tried far too hard and seemed to sledgehammer its point home at almost every given opportunity; I think the worst example of this was when the girl kept hitting the white guy for using the N word - I mean I understand the message that Famuyiwa was trying to get across, but he completely overdoes things here and it made me cringe due to the heavy-handed and clumsy way that Famuyiwa played out this scenario.Dope is also chocked full of hipster dialogue but in an unfocused film with no solid narrative structure a lot of it just comes across as trite and boring. I could also criticise the film for offering nothing new to the genre, but that would be unfair as many films of this nature still have stories that are worth telling (no matter how unoriginal they are), but Dope was a film I could never get into and it's basically because it lacked any real intensity, it was unfocused and I never felt any connections to any of the characters. There is a twist to the story at the end which was quite amusing, but most of this film just fell flat for me.The only positive thing that I've got to say about this film is that the acting was generally good (particularly between the 3 leads), but I'm struggling to think of anything else that I liked about it in all honesty.

Dope (2015) **1/2 1hr. 41 min. Dope Simple Definition of dope • : An illegal drug (such as marijuana or heroin) • : a stupid or annoying person • the dope : information about someone or something that is not commonly or immediately known That is what you see at the beginning of this movie. The definition of dope. Does it relate to the first or second meaning? Well it relates to illegal drugs and a unlikely student who finds himself in a situation beyond his control and how he deals with it makes you suspect what would you do in the same situation. The movie stars Shameik Moore as Malcom and Tony Revelovi and Keirsey Clemons as his best friends Jib and Diggy. One who is 14 percent black and Diggy and Lesbian who family tries to pray away the gayness out of her to no avail. There all geeks and nerds who are the Brainiac's in the film. They live in southern California and have dreams of going to college, particular Malcom who has eyes for Harvard. He lives with his mother (Kimberly Elise) whose is a bus driver whose father is not in the picture. Malcom talks to his school counselor about going to Harvard and the counselor says that he's too naive to believe he can get into Harvard. Malcom lives in Compton and the counselor suggests that to think of a young black man, going to a predominant Ivy league school is not realistic, nonetheless, the counselor schedules Malcom for an interview. A man who came from the same neighborhood can help him get into Harvard. Things turn Topsy-turvy when Malcom and his friends go to a party being invited by a local drug dealer Dom (A$AP) who also asks him to talk to his ex-girlfriend Nakia (Zoe Kravitz). While at the party all hell breaks loose when Dom's drug deal goes bad and puts his drugs and a gun into Malcom backpack. Malcom escorts Nakia to her car and offers him a ride home. Next day at school, his back pack sounds off through the metal detectors, but the security guards assumes its faulty machine. Malcom later checks his backpack and low and behold, sees packages of drugs and a gun. Jib insists to take it to the police and Malcom warns him that they run the risk of being arrested. Later at school, the drug dealer wants Malcom bags and Dom is arrested calls him from jail to tell him to leave the destination the dealer was supposed to meet Malcom. Malcom is told that he either will be killed or arrested. Malcom and friends leave and are able to escape and they stumble upon on one crisis after another. Malcom decides to take matters into his own hands, when the Harvard alum AJ asks Malcom to deal the drug that turns out to be the sex drug Molly for his profit. If Malcom chooses not, he can kiss his chances of going to Harvard goodbye. Malcom then must choose to do the ethical thing and tell the police what he knows or sell the drug but run the risk of being arrested by the police. One scene comes to mind is when Malcom and his friends are at the Mansion and meets AJ daughter and tries to seduce Malcom and take his virginity. When she takes Molly she is so high on the drug, she throws up on Malcom and then offers to take him to his interview high on the drug. She later gets out of the car and ends up urinating in the street as Malcom drives himself to the interview. There a funny scene is where Diggy slaps a white stoner who agrees to help him sell off the drugs because he desperately wants to say the N word and when Malcom almost gets arrested when the school checks lockers for drugs while Malcom is taking his SAT's. The movie brings a very ambiguous moral center for its main characters. The movie message is that someone as nerdy and smart as Malcom can get away with being a drug dealer, no one would believe, he could be involved in something so unethical. However, I find it hard to believe that the same security guard would buzz Malcom over and over again without checking his bag. Maybe 1, 2 times but more than three times, it not very realistic. I don't care how nerdy and smart Malcom is. I would also like to see more of Malcom's relationship with Nikia there is great chemistry between them but that relationship is sidetracked by the Molly story line. A story line that is not very convincing and the moral message that left me uneasy. With blacks involved in crimes and black men getting shot by police. Films like this need to be taken with a grain of salt, because strong ethics is the only way, we can make black America a better place. Not put ourselves as a people in situations that are detrimental to our community.