DVD Review: Gun  By    |   Monday, March 14, 2011 Filed under:
Film Tags: , ,  Curtis Jackson, also known as 50 Cent (what his
British name is depends on the exchange rate that day; today
it’s 31 Pence), is not really somebody that I would associate
with the world of movie-making. At least, not until I saw Gun
and became aware of his previous output (you might be able to
tell that I don’t pay much attention to the careers of rappers).
Gun is a film where the subject is what it says on the tin.
Gunrunner Rich Taylor (50 Cent) is targeted by the Detroit
Police force to stop rapidly raising crime rates (I’m on their
side here and I feel most viewers would be too). He bumps into
his old friend Angel (played by Val Kilmer, who has changed a
lot since Batman Forever and Top Gun), who saves his life in a
gun exchange with Machete‘s Danny Trejo. Things heat up as the
gun squad tries to do what it needs to in order to take Taylor
down. The film takes a fairly predictable course for the rest of
it.  50 was prompted to