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| Twentieth Century Fox | Release Date: February 25, 1994 |
Starring:
Abe Vigoda, Anthony Thomas, Clarence Williams III, DeVaughn Nixon, John Pittman, Khandi Alexander, Marquise Wilson, Michael Wright, O.L. Duke, Wesley Snipes
Summary:
A drug dealer tries to get out of the life and start anew with his girlfriend, but the transition is tragically difficult.
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Sugar Hill is a dark, bloody family tragedy, told in terms so sad and poetic that it transcends its genre and becomes eloquent drama. [25 Feb 1994, p.33]
Directed with care by Leon Ichaso and written by New Jack's Barry Michael Cooper, snazzy-looking Hill also covers familiar terrain. [25 Feb 1994, p.4D]
The picture has moments of raw emotional power, but these are overshadowed by lapses into needless vulgarity and sadistic violence, especially in a repulsive
scene that lingers on the vicious brutalization of a helpless woman. [04 Mar 1994, p.1]
What Sugar Hill lacks is modulation. The entire movie is played at the same high level of dramatic intensity - tragedy piled on tragedy, confrontation piled on confrontation, grand speech upon grand speech. Impassioned though this approach is, it eventually takes on a cumulative feeling of bombast. [25 Feb 1994, p.38]
This ponderous, mostly empty exercise at least has ambition. It wants to be more than the usual gangsta zap. But about the best that can be said for it is that it dresses well. [25 Feb 1994, p.48]
Just as there can be fresh angles on the old story, there is a growing number of urban-survival cliches that lose their dramatic impact as they grow tiresomely familiar. Sugar Hill is a virtual catalog of these cliches - a serious, well-meaning film that offers no new insight into the crises it professes to understand. [25 Feb 1994, p.D21]
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