They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
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- tmdb28039023on TMDB · Aug 20226/10
New Jack City is convoluted, contrived, and heavy-handed, ending with a caption warning us to “confront the [drug] problem realistically, without empty slogans and promises”. Well, the characters in the movie certainly eschew empty slogans in favor of some of the most memorable catchphrases ever committed to film (“Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change,” “I want to shoot you so bad, my d*ck's hard,” etc., etc.), but it might be a bit of a stretch to say that they deal with the problem realistically – and it’s actually the little things, such as our old friend the Red Digital Readout, that cast doubt over the proceedings; conversely, the elephant in the room – i.e., the taking over and conversion into a huge crack house of an entire apartment complex – is based on fact (the hardest things to believe are sometimes the most veridical; compare the upside down-flying commercial airplane in Flight). The script is sometimes platitudinous, sometimes downright nonsensical, but always, as I hinted above, endlessly entertaining and quotable. Similarly, the plot and is underdeveloped but not shallow, and the film overall has its heart in the right place. This is a vibrant movie, b
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Cast
- Wesley SnipesNino Brown
- Ice-TScotty Appleton
- Allen PayneGarald "Gee Money" Welles
- Chris RockPookie
- Mario Van PeeblesStone
- Michael MicheleSelina
- Bill NunnDuh Duh Duh Man
- Russell WongPark
- Bill CobbsOld Man
- Christopher WilliamsKareem Akbar
Crew
- Mario Van PeeblesDirector
- Thomas Lee WrightScreenplay
- Barry Michael CooperScreenplay
- Francis KennyDirector of Photography
- Michel ColombierOriginal Music Composer
- Steven KemperEditor
- Doug McHenryProducer
- George JacksonProducer
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