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  • Starring: Chi McBride, Mekhi Phifer, Wood Harris
  • Summary: Amidst the 1980s drug scene in Harlem, a young native (Harris) builds an illegal empire only to have a crisis of conscience.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 16
  2. Negative: 4 out of 16
  1. It's good, hard-edged stuff, violent and a bit exploitative but also nicely done, morally alert and street-smart.
  2. 60
    A vivid telling of a familiar story -- the rise and fall of a street criminal -- bolstered by exceptional performances and a clear-eyed take on the economics of dealing and the pathology of ghetto fabulousness.
  3. 30
    Lazily directed by Charles Stone III (the man behind Budweiser's "Whassup?!" campaign) from a leaden script by Matthew Cirulnick and novelist Thulani Davis.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. ChrisJ.
    10
    Excellent movie.
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  2. erasmoe
    10
    This movie made me buy the game over documentary as soon as i saw it. This movie was off the hook. Im even trying to get the f.e.d.s. mag. 1st issue who has alpo on the fron cover and says he's side of the story. hot movie. Expand
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