Critic Reviews
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TV Guide
A rapper doesn't make the story fresh.
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| 40 |
Los Angeles Times
Hits hard and pulls no punches in telling its brutal story.
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| 38 |
New York Post
Features less than 10 minutes of music in its mercifully brief 83-minute running time.
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| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times
Very seriously confused in its objectives.
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| 38 |
New York Daily News
Normally, I'd recommend a movie like this only to diehard fans. But even they may want to wait until it hits cable.
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| 30 |
Austin Chronicle
Definitive modern cinematic eye-candy with all the connotations of empty calories that term implies.
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| 25 |
Mr. Showbiz
A vanity vehicle for the dubious acting talents of Pras.
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| 25 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Glib, sense-numbing action fantasy.
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| 25 |
Miami Herald
This misguided gangster rap movie had every strike against it from the start.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Never comes alive.
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| 20 |
Village Voice
The staging and performances are awkward, the frequent shoot-outs a snore.
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| 20 |
The New York Times
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.
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| 10 |
Film.com
Flawed at its very core.
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| 10 |
Variety
Patently absurd in both the details and larger aspects, the ultraserious pic is undermined by poor casting.
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| 10 |
LA Weekly
Gormless, gutless little home movie.
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| 10 |
Salon.com
This awkward fable of ghetto redemption mixes painfully earnest message-delivery with occasional scenes of brutal violence.
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