Love Come Down
An interesting premise and fine perfs are lost to a stagy flashback structure and a childish script in "Love Come Down," a tale of family tragedy. Presence of Larenz Tate, late of "Menace II Society," is only possible marketing hook Stateside. Pic will otherwise plunk down on homevid shelves.
An interesting premise and fine perfs are lost to a stagy flashback structure and a childish script in “Love Come Down,” a tale of family tragedy. Presence of Larenz Tate, late of “Menace II Society,” is only possible marketing hook Stateside. Pic will otherwise plunk down on homevid shelves.
Tate shows variety as Neville, a would-be comic haunted by childhood trauma and drugs, and Canuck Martin Cummins is good as his boxing older brother, the white-skinned Matthew. Their mom (Barbara Williams) languishes in jail for killing Neville’s abusive dad with a machete, and helmer-writer Clement Virgo wisely takes biracial angle as a given, but little else is explored; when Neville hooks up with an extraordinary talented singer (well played by R&B star Deborah Cox), her career is never acknowledged, despite endless blather from the brothers about proving oneself, etc. Helmer further flattens tale with relentless cutting in of flashbacks, leading to a silly twist. (Think those lads would still have machetes around the house?) Virgo lets himself off creative hook by making Neville a terrible comic, and up-and-comer Sarah Polley is wasted as a hip nun with smart-ass answers.
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