Customer Ratings & Reviews

Loved this movie since I was a kid so had to get the dvd

I lived in some neighborhoods that were a little like the one in this film. I never practiced the thug life, I've always been kind of a "goody two shoes"(?#, but anyway; regardless, this film's got a soundtrack comprised of various ambient soul/R&B songs, and the cinematography is rife with a heavily stylized bleakness, very gloomy, even in the scenes taking place in the sunny daylight. It's indeed almost a one of a kind movie. I remember thinking of the parallels between this and Martin Scorsese's BRINGING OUT THE DEAD from a few years after this one, in terms of the visual sensory attack those films both provide. Lo & behold, Martin Scorsese is the "Executive Producer" of this film and was slated to direct it but couldn't do this and CASINO at the same time and didn't want to pass up doing CASINO #I guess Universal Pictures gave Scorsese a limited time offer to direct it...#. Anyway, this film is good. It's a very in your face-visual treat. The ending is a little neat and tidy, but oh well...we all need that glimmer of hope here and there, even if it's only shown through the lens of a filmmaker... would I Recommend to a friend? Uh...I don't have any friends, but if I did, they might be religiously anti-R rated movies or they might be braindead folks who hate anything with a strong emotional resonance...whose to say you have to agree with everything I think/feel to be my friend??

Excellent movie. Spike Lee does it again. A must watch if you like movies about drugs and violence. I don't usually watch the DVD extras. I'm all about watching the movies.