![]() Stanley simply isn’t a strong enough foil for Jevon if you want to dramatize attitudes about race in America. Indeed, it would be nice to know more about Shazz, who is sympathetic to Jevon’s situation but also pragmatic enough to know that clocks need to be punched and bills have to be paid or Sydney (Birgundi Baker), who sacrificed running track and attending college to have Jevon’s baby or even Fernando (Dano Duran), Oscar’s dishwasher, who barely has a line of dialogue but gave up being a geography teacher in Latin America to come to the U.S. It’s disappointing we don’t get to know more about that guy. McGhie is sharp and charismatic as a kid who acts like he’s got it all figured out but is clearly lost. He has an infant son, a girlfriend who’s lost patience with him and a mind bursting with ideas and opinions (any millennial who references Willis Reed has my attention). Jevon, on the other hand, has a lot going on. It’s not a plus when a movie’s protagonist is only the fourth or fifth most interesting character. His situation - nearly four decades in the same dead-end job, living in what looks like a halfway house, with no obvious outside interests beyond some old baseball mementos kept in a strong box - is not particularly credible. Beyond Jenkins’ performance, there’s no there there. ![]() Last shift movie#The entire movie is infinitely more watchable because of his presence, but as written, Stanley is a cipher, a blank slate. ![]() And that’s great, except for one thing: Stanley.Ĭasting Jenkins, a fearless actor, was genius. This sets in motion a tragic series of events that Cohn laudably, if moralistically, allows to play through without adding a nice, tidy bow. ![]()
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