It does have 2 Oscar winners (Forest Whitaker and like you said Robert De Niro), but on the other hand it also has 50 Cent....
Straight-to-dvd movies are not always a complete failure, there are a few straight-to-dvd movies or movies with very limited cinema time that are in my opinion very good:
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It does have 2 Oscar winners (Forest Whitaker and like you said Robert De Niro), but on the other hand it also has 50 Cent....
Straight-to-dvd movies are not always a complete failure, there are a few straight-to-dvd movies or movies with very limited cinema time that are in my opinion very good:
http://trakt.tv/user/dunpealhunter/lists/excellent-straighttodvd-movies