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80A gritty, well-acted urban drama with lots of humanity.
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80Has a gritty authenticity to it … captures the spectacularly crazed quality of urban violence.
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75Invigorating excellence.
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75A gritty, profane and profoundly disturbing look at the American drug culture.
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70LL Cool J... is downright scary -- a mix of coiled charm and underlying menace.
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70Script resounds throughout with astringent dialogue and stark authenticity.
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70With a strong soundtrack and a little humor, In Too Deep remains good entertainment.
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70Formulaic but effectively gritty inner-city crime drama.
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63A well-acted and surprisingly thoughtful treatment of the same old, same old.
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63It delivers cop-genre thrills at the pace required and reminds us Omar Epps is a star in the making.
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The film does have a canny appreciation for how ghetto realness is acted out.
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60Treats its characters seriously and doesn't resort to the obvious very often.
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58A weakly scripted shambles.
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50An oft-told tale.
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50LL Cool J. plays God like a medieval king.
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50Slow and predictable, and the characters are so poorly written that its hard to react to them in any way.
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50It's old, old hat.
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50Epps is a leading man on the rise, and Cool J. is something to see.
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50Crime-by numbers-cop drama.
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50A mess of incohesiveness and fragmented storytelling.
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50(L.L.. Cool J's) gritty drug lord is decent.
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40Too sloppy, pinning psychological crime dramatics to good old-fashioned gunplay.
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40Enough gunfights, vicious beatings, and pissing matches for five films.
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40A few startling touches.
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40This earnest yet cynical drama makes the gang-infiltration genre seem exhausted.
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38Begins sinking in the shallow end almost at once.
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33Goes on too long and doesn't have much to say.
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Not too far from the version of "Serpico" staged by the Max Fisher Players in "Rushmore."