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New Jack City (1991)
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Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorized drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in theaters. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. However you interpret it, New Jack City is still one of the first and best films of the 1990s to crack open the underworld of cocaine and peer inside with its eyes wide open. It's also the film that established Wesley Snipes as an actor to watch,...
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New Jack City Movie Review by Tim  (3/20/2007) |
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New Jack City is a classic 90's movie that really was the last of the great 80's action films. Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock, Ice-T, and even Mario Van Peebles were all great in this film. I watched this film over and over again when I was a kid and still to this day watch it whenever it is on TV.
Some really good one...
(complete New Jack City review by Tim)
Oh, yes, clanking gold jewelry, free-flowing champagne, silk suits and enough gun-toting strongmen to make the whole drug operation perfectly secure. Nothing new here but the computerized records.
Mario Van Peebles directs "New Jack City" with as much energy and flash as this film's weary formula will allow. "New Jack...
(complete New Jack City review by Movie Addict)
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