sucker free city

San Francisco. SFC. Sucker Free City. this is a spike lee joint that never showed in the theatres because it was meant to be a Showtime series. this two hour pilot is all that remains of the plan. as a film, it's a little uneven. the story focuses on Hunter's Point, SF's abandoned navy yard that now boasts a mostly African American population and excessive amounts of toxic waste. a white family pushed out of the Mission district by the yuppie dot-com invasion moves to the HP, stirring up the status quo. the film also follows a Chinese mafia lackey in Chinatown who garners little sympathy or interest in his misguided grabs for the boss' money and daughter. everyone in the film is hustling to make a few more dollars. the saddest part of the story is that when little children get shot up, it's hard to care. it might have been a good show and it wasn't a terrible way to pass two hours but I recommend it to spike lee aficionados only.