This movie stars Bow Wow as Kevin Carson, a young man who still lives with his grandmother and works at Footlocker. His grandma regularly plays the lottery and although he never enters is he does decide to play for one time with the numbers he got from a fortune cookie.
It doesn’t take long for hm to find out that he has won $370 million dollars. Only problem is that he can’t immediately claim his price because the lottery office isn’t open till after the weekend. He wants to try to keep it a secret, but his grandmother can’t keep her mouth shut and the whole neighbourhood turns up at the house to get something from him.
Lottery Ticket is from the same mold as movies like Friday and Barbershop. Unfortunately it doesn’t succeed to create the same feel, despite the big number of well-known actors like Ice Cube, Terry Crews, Bill Bellamy, Charlie Murphy, Naturi Naughton, Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire) and Loretta Devine.
It is the type of movie where you know exactly what you are going to see and it doesn’t surprise anywhere or excels at anything. It is filled with your typical ghetto characters in a world that doesn’t feel real at all.
Despite this I did think it is a movie that will entertain, but it really is a “middle of the road” comedy. I had some issues in assigning a score though. Some part of me really thinks this movie deserves a 3 or a 4, but then I also couldn’t give it such a low one. In the end I decided on a 6. If you like movies like Friday and Barbershop I think you’ll like this one as well. If you don’t it’s better to stay away from this as you won’t like it at all.
Score: 6