With Awards season upon us and Oscar season soon to be here, there’s nothing I like more than catching a good flick at the local cinema. Unfortunately, I don’t think “First Sunday” (official site) will be one that I’ll be catching.
Tracy Morgan is hilarious on “30 Rock,” but even then I can only take him for so long at a time. I can’t imagine what it would be like to sit through 90 minutes of his comedy. Add Ice Cube to the mix and you have an explosive bag of nothingness to entice me to come see your film.
Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) are best friends and bumbling petty criminals. When told they have one week to pay a $17,000 debt or Durell will lose his son, they come up with a desperate scheme to rob their neighborhood church. Instead, they end up spending the night in the presence of the Lord and are forced to deal with much more than they bargained for.
I’m slightly intrigued by how the film will deal with the “presence of the Lord” and what exactly that means to the bumbling criminals. The whole situation could be done in a way that is both entertaining and enlightening if it was written intelligently. However, I expect that they probably went the “least common denominator” route and destroyed any chance the film could have had for redemption (pun intended).
I must admit, however, that the trailer is actually funny. Keep in mind, however, that the preview is only about 2 and a half minutes long. Watch the trailer about 30 or 40 times and you’ll get some idea of what the movie might be like.
