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Mr. Untouchable

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Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by: Marc Levin
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 26, 2007
DVD: January 29, 2008
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Leroy 'Nicky' Barnes, Thelma Grant, Carol Hawkins-Williams, Joseph Jazz Hayden, and Leon Scrap Batts
Mr. Touchable is the true-life story of Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug lord, which takes its audience deep inside the heroin industry of the 1970s. The most powerful black drug kingpin in New York City history, Barnes came from humble beginnings to make himself and his comrades rich beyond their wildest dreams, ultimately reaching national infamy in 1977 when the New York Times put him on the front cover of its magazine with the headline "Mr. Untouchable." Soon after, it all came crumbling down, and facing a life sentence without parole, Barnes started naming names. With the firsthand testimony from "the black Godfather" himself, this documentary tells an epic story of business, excess, greed, and revenge. (Magnolia)
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What The Critics Said
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Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
As interesting, certainly, as “American Gangster,” and operating with a truer street sense of the characters involved.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin
If Barnes ultimately emerges as a heartless, duplicitous villain, he's nevertheless got the devil's slippery, seductive charm.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
What emerges is a portrait of a complex man - one who had no qualms about murder and drugs but who won a national poetry contest and read "Moby-Dick" while in jail. Go figure.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's not a pretty picture, but it sure is a compelling one.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
The "black Godfather" comes off as a cold-blooded narcissist whose vision of the American Dream is as twisted as it seems to have been rewarding.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
It's undeniably fascinating, but you might want to take a shower after hanging out with this unsavory bunch.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A slick package all around. Adroitly edited, filled with fine music like Curtis Mayfield's "Pusherman" and more people flashing needles than at a garment worker's convention, this film is less a dispassionate examination than a celebratory infomercial on its central character.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Stephen Hunter
It's fast and furious, and it proves that crime doesn't pay, unless you know how to do it right.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Michelle Orange
A fascinating first-person account of drug kingpin and ruthless gangster Nicky Barnes, whose outrageous story of rise, rule, rage, and revenge requires no such stylistic filler.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Barnes, now in his seventies and relocated by the Witness Protection Program, is shot only in silhouette, but there's plenty of footage of him in his heyday, dressed to the pimpalicious nines and playing to the cameras like a movie star.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
There is some acknowledgment of the terrible effects of the drug trade on residents of Harlem and other poor New York neighborhoods, but for the most part Mr. Untouchable clings to the standard hip-hop mythology of the pusher as entrepreneur, rebel, celebrity and folk hero.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Machiavelli epigrams and 70s soul classics embellish this slice of thug life, which succumbs to the usual hypocrisy of condemning Barnes while grooving on his cars, clothes, and jewels.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Alternately seduced and repelled by its subject, the garish and power-hungry Harlem gangster and '70s cocaine kingpin Nicky Barnes, Mr. Untouchable is one seriously confused documentary.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
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