| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
A gritty, well-acted urban drama with lots of humanity.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Has a gritty authenticity to it … captures the spectacularly crazed quality of urban violence.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
Invigorating excellence.
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| 75 |
Baltimore Sun
A gritty, profane and profoundly disturbing look at the American drug culture.
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| 70 |
Film.com
LL Cool J... is downright scary -- a mix of coiled charm and underlying menace.
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| 70 |
Variety
Formulaic but effectively gritty inner-city crime drama.
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| 70 |
Los Angeles Times
Script resounds throughout with astringent dialogue and stark authenticity.
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| 70 |
Newsweek
Anjali Arora
With a strong soundtrack and a little humor, In Too Deep remains good entertainment.
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| 63 |
Charlotte Observer
It delivers cop-genre thrills at the pace required and reminds us Omar Epps is a star in the making.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
A well-acted and surprisingly thoughtful treatment of the same old, same old.
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| 60 |
The New York Times
Treats its characters seriously and doesn't resort to the obvious very often.
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| 60 |
Village Voice
Gary Dauphin
The film does have a canny appreciation for how ghetto realness is acted out.
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| 58 |
Entertainment Weekly
A weakly scripted shambles.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Crime-by numbers-cop drama.
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| 50 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
It's old, old hat.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Epps is a leading man on the rise, and Cool J. is something to see.
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| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
A mess of incohesiveness and fragmented storytelling.
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| 50 |
Chicago Tribune
An oft-told tale.
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| 50 |
TNT RoughCut
Matt Kelsey
(L.L.. Cool J's) gritty drug lord is decent.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
LL Cool J. plays God like a medieval king.
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| 50 |
New York Post
Slow and predictable, and the characters are so poorly written that its hard to react to them in any way.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
This earnest yet cynical drama makes the gang-infiltration genre seem exhausted.
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| 40 |
Film.com
A few startling touches.
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| 40 |
LA Weekly
Nicole Campos
Enough gunfights, vicious beatings, and pissing matches for five films.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
Too sloppy, pinning psychological crime dramatics to good old-fashioned gunplay.
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| 38 |
USA Today
Begins sinking in the shallow end almost at once.
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| 33 |
Portland Oregonian
Goes on too long and doesn't have much to say.
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| 30 |
Dallas Observer
Scott Kelton Jones
Not too far from the version of "Serpico" staged by the Max Fisher Players in "Rushmore."
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