New Jack City (Blu-ray) R
They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 14, 2012
- Originally Released: 1991
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wesley Snipes & Judd Nelson | |
Performer: | Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles, Chris Rock, Michael Michele, Tracy Camila Johns, Allen Payne, Bill Nunn, Bill Cobbs & Vanessa Williams | |
Directed by | Mario Van Peebles | |
Edited by | Steven Kemper | |
Screenplay by | Thomas Lee Wright & Barry Michael Cooper | |
Story by | Thomas Lee Wright | |
Produced by | George Jackson & Doug McHenry | |
Director of Photography: | Francis Kenny |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
OK Van Peebles flick featuring Snipes.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Van Peebles wanted to tell this story; his heart is in it, and it's got a killer beat.
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Washington Post
Rating: 7/10 --
...a purely conventional story, but it unfolds in unique and innovative ways, with particularly good turns from its cast, all of which make it a worthwhile watch.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 2.5/4 --
We all know New Jack City is making the right statement on drugs, racism, the system, etc. But the fact is it's not very good.
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TV Guide
NEW JACK CITY codified the hip-hop-gangsta image as much as any Ruthless Records release...
Rolling Stone
Rating: C+ --
A cynical director, Van Peebles has style to burn, but his work is too flashy to make sense. This is a gangster-thriller about crack trade in Hralem done as a moralistic melodrama with kinky violence.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Rating: 4/5 --
The film's use of once-imposing, now-crumbling New York architecture is particularly effective in underscoring the story with an air of widespread urban decay.
New York Times
Product Description:
A violent, kinetic gangster film with a strong anti-drug message, NEW JACK CITY is set in the mid-1980s during the height of the crack epidemic. Two street-wise undercover cops (Judd Nelson, Mario Van Peebles) go after Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), a ruthless drug lord with extravagant taste in home furnishings. Desperate to bring down his multi-million dollar cocaine empire, they send Pookie (Chris Rock), a former street hustler and rehabilitated crack addict, into Nino's drug factory as an undercover spy. When the plan misfires, the cops must face Nino and his henchman in a bloody showdown.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 11,687
- UPC: 883929244454
- Shipping Weight: 0.15/lbs (approx)
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