I think this film qualifies as a slasher.

I’ve been all wrong about the Trust Nobody series. Brandon Cornett did not create a hood drama, he directed a hood slasher film. If Freddy Krueger was black, this is what Nightmare on Elm Street would look like. Just a bunch of people making stupid decisions and getting picked off one by one. And for a series called Trust Nobody, there sure is a lot of trust getting trusted around. Trust me.

Trust Nobody is still out here shilling Ricardo Amor tequila, although the Cristal slander is notably absent this time around. Either they’ve got some kind of product placement going or Brandon Cornett just really, really loves Ricardo Amor. I’m pretty sure they’re either business partners or really good friends, because the Trust Nobody films are all over the Ricardo Amor Facebook page.

Trust Nobody 3 is listed as the final chapter, and I’m going to trust them on this. Or maybe there’s going to be a fourth film and the whole point of the “final chapter” is a psyche out to remind you to trust nobody. Not even the subtitle of the film. Jamal Woolard is once again back as Bricks and it turns out he once again survived a shooting. This time he’s not in the hospital for half the film, he gets out lucky because he was wearing a bullet proof vest and the dumbass who shot him aimed for the chest. Always aim for the face.

Bricks is a guy who trusts too many people for a film called Trust Nobody. In fact he trusts pretty much everyone he does business with, and it leads to him getting betrayed over and over and over and over and over again. I actually stopped feeling bad for the guy, eventually you have to get a clue. How many times does a dude need to get robbed during a drug deal by the people he’s doing the deal with before he comes better strapped or with an ambush plan? I guess that’s hard when your backup or ambush party would probably just betray you as well. But for a guy who is constantly thinking, Bricks isn’t really doing much.

The last film focused primarily on Fool, played by one of my favorite actors Tyriq Thomas Kimbrough. Fool is out of the picture so for the third film his role is taken by Stephen Love aka Detective Love. Much like Fool, Detective Love has completely gone off the shit deep end of the paranoid route and spends most of the film gunning people down, doing double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple backstabs. He has Bricks robbed so he can hire Bricks to do a deal so he can have Bricks robbed so he can grab the loot and then Bricks to do a deal so he can rob him a third time.

Stephen Love is also the writer of this movie and like Kimbrough he is becoming one of my favorite actors. You can tell he loved every minute of shooting this film. Detective Love is the flame that carries this movie, and it’s hilarious watching him backstab people. He cuts a deal with a dude in a wheelchair and meets up with him to split the earnings. And Love barely gets through finishing up the deal before pulling out a gun, robbing the dude of the cut he just gave him twenty seconds ago, and shooting him dead.

But hey, Love is just trying to survive in a universe where literally everyone is betraying each other at every single opportunity. Bricks gets betrayed by a guy named Two Times, and I’m gonna be honest…I’d trust a guy named Two Times, the name almost sounds too on the nose to think he’d double cross me. But everyone double-crosses everyone, including themselves. It just goes to show you can’t trust nobody.

Of course this wouldn’t be a Trust Nobody film without gorgeous women, and this movie is bookended with a threesome at the start and a strip club scene toward the end. It makes up for the fact that the actors seem to be shouting into a microphone that started dying two years ago. Usually the film is pretty good but when the actors start getting riled up it sounds like a bad McDonald’s drive-thru speaker and anyone who has worked in one of those places knows exactly what I’m talking about.

The dialogue? Fantastic. I have no clue how much of it was improvised versus scripted but it all kept me on the edge of my seat from the start to the finish. And yeah, it’s kinda ridiculous that pretty much everyone in this film goes down without much of a fight since they all seem to get double-crossed and gunned down on the spot. But hey, the film is called Trust Nobody, not gang shootout.

Usually I’m not as impressed with the third movie in a trilogy than the first. In this case, Trust Nobody is the best I could have hoped for in a finale. RIP Bricks.

Rating: A