#30: Dead Presidents (1995)

This movie was a serious disappointment. The Hughes Brothers always get me like that. Their movies are never quite as cool as the concepts from which they were created. This feels like a mashup of a lot of different movies: 1) coming of age story; 2) gangster story; 3) fighting a war story; 4) the big heist gone wrong story. Which is it?!! You can pick one, maybe two. But four!!!! Plus, a lot of things these characters did just didn't make sense. I love Chris Tucker as a comic actor, but his dramatic acting is a little weak, especially in a movie where he's cracking jokes and acting a fool in earlier scenes and then later becomes a troubled heroine addict. And why would a Vietnam vet born again Christian preacher ever agree to participate in a bank robbery? Just ludicrous.