Never Die Alone
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38 out of 100

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7.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

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  • Starring: David Arquette, DMX, Michael Ealy
  • Summary: A richly literate film noir about King David (DMX), a hard-boiled, stylish criminal who returns to his hometown seeking redemption and finding only violent death. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 28
  3. Negative: 13 out of 28
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    88
    Never Die Alone is [Dickerson's] best work to date, with the complexity of serious fiction and the nerve to start dark and stay dark, to follow the logic of its story right down to its inevitable end.
  2. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    80
    An electrifying modern-dress noir, directed by Ernest Dickerson with a tough, terse, unapologetically brutal attitude that evokes the heyday of Sam Fuller and Robert Aldrich.
  3. Variety
    Reviewed by: David Rooney
    60
    Largely overcomes key cast weaknesses to deliver a jazzy, darkly textured rendering of the ghetto pulp of late African-American ex-con author Donald Goines.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    What dooms Never Die Alone even as amoral pulp entertainment is the screenplay by neophyte James Gibson, which combines clichéd characters and a contrived plot with stale dialogue.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 6
  3. Negative: 1 out of 6
  1. Tor
    10
    the rest of these critics really need to get some fucking taste and not underrate films like these (Boondock Sanits Running Scared, Never Die Alone) This will soon get its respect soon enough. last I remember Scarface was panned like this as well as simply being trashy.… Expand
  2. NickM.
    10
    Terrific , just amazing, i thought it was going to be bad, but it was birlliant.
  3. AraH.
    1
    This movie was utter and complete garbage. The acting was bad, DMX's narration was plain unnecessary, the pacing and editing were utterly horrible and the story was painfully week. I saw the ending coming halfway through the film. Ernest Dickerson should never be given money (not even his own) to make another movie. I am disappointed that Ebert could give this movie 3 1/2 stars!… Expand

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