Movie Review: Clika

 

Michael's Movie Grade: D-

A bland and overly familiar film.

This movie tells the story of a migrant worker, who is struggling to make it by and whose dream of making it in the music business seems to be going nowhere.  He decides to make some extra money; he is going to run drugs with his cousin. However, he soon finds himself in love with the new life he has as a drug dealer. 

The main problem with this movie is that our central character is hardly a character at all. Besides that, he dreams about being a famous musician and that his work doesn't pay much, we barely know anything about him. Unfortunately, these types of movies completely depend on the character.  This could be a somewhat interesting film, if we watched a good and likable character become a despicable human being as he went further down the rabbit hole. However, we know too little about him before he starts running drugs to have any sort of emotional connection. Because of this when we see him start to act cocky and selfish, this is the first time we see any personality from him. Because of this we simply view him as a terrible person instead of a once moral young man selling his soul for easy money. It is simply hard to care about anything that happens to him. This is not to say much of interest actually happens to him. For a film that is supposed to be about high stakes and danger we see very little of that until we are near the end. By then it is simply too little too late. The rest of the story simply seems to be going through the motions. There is a romance that exists because these stories are supposed to have a romance. There are family members and friends he is a jerk to because of course there are. Every plot point here has been done a million times and much better. Add to this stiff acting, unintentionally comedic dialogue and a moral which we are beaten over the head with and you get a lame excuse for a movie.

The only thing worth recommending here is the music. The songs sound great and are full of a type of energy that is absent elsewhere. 

Skip this one.