07/02/12 Few Options (2011)

It's been a remarkably, unusually good run of decent films the last few nights here at the Film Plop cave. Few Options was yet another (unexpectedly) good film.

Backround: The Wire can fuck off, The Shield was the greatly superior cop show of the early '00s. So when we saw that this film had Kenny 'Lem' Johnson in it, we knew we had to see it. Certainly couldn't be any worse than 'Zzyzx' that he was also in. As a person. Who done stuff. On a road with a silly name.

In Few Options, Lem plays a guy who's just got out of prison after serving 22 years for, well, being a bit of a cock. Tries to put his life together, people from the past etc...

Although far  from original, it is very good. You could say that Johnson displays minimal range in this film, but we think he portrays 'broken' excellently and far better than most.

Well worth a look. Even if the main bad guy and his bodyguard are as threatening as Coco-Pops.

8.5/10

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