Edward Norton stars in this Spike Lee directed movie, and it is a good one. Norton plays Monty, who has 24 hours before he has to check into prison for a 12 year drug sentence.
He uses those hours to connect with his oldest friends, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Barry Pepper, his father, and also to find out who narced him out to the DEA...his girlfriend played by the luscious Rosario Dawson, or the Russian mobsters who he does business with.
This is a very nuanced movie, despite the very straight forward sounding plot, filled with repressed emotions and feelings, and sometimes disturbing subplots. Norton takes the lead in this, delivering a superb performance...as he usually does, with a lot of material to cover and a lot of emotional depth to work with.
And Spike Lee, many times not one to be subtle, holds the reigns in a bit here, wisely so, and lets the undercurrents plays out naturally, not forcing them to the surface too soon.
Monty must make choices as the clock ticks down, not so much about his actions, but about what his frame of mind will be going into prison. And as the last of the 24 hours starts to slip away his choices close in on him.
25th Hour (2002) was an excellent film, with Norton giving another great performance.
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