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18 out of 100

Overwhelming dislike - based on 16 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 16
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 16
  3. Negative: 14 out of 16
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    40
    A rapper doesn't make the story fresh.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    40
    Hits hard and pulls no punches in telling its brutal story.
  3. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    38
    Very seriously confused in its objectives.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Normally, I'd recommend a movie like this only to diehard fans. But even they may want to wait until it hits cable.
  5. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    38
    Features less than 10 minutes of music in its mercifully brief 83-minute running time.
  6. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Russell Smith
    30
    Definitive modern cinematic eye-candy with all the connotations of empty calories that term implies.
  7. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    25
    A vanity vehicle for the dubious acting talents of Pras.
  8. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Sara Wildberger
    25
    This misguided gangster rap movie had every strike against it from the start.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    25
    Never comes alive.
  10. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    25
    Glib, sense-numbing action fantasy.
  11. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    20
    The staging and performances are awkward, the frequent shoot-outs a snore.
  12. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    20
    Deteriorates into a gory shoot-'em-up gangster movie with a quick-fix ending that leaves many threads dangling. It could have been something more.
  13. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    10
    This awkward fable of ghetto redemption mixes painfully earnest message-delivery with occasional scenes of brutal violence.
  14. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: John Patterson
    10
    Gormless, gutless little home movie.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    10
    Flawed at its very core.
  16. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    10
    Patently absurd in both the details and larger aspects, the ultraserious pic is undermined by poor casting.
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