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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  • 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

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User Ratings: 45,299
Rating: 3/5 -- OK Van Peebles flick featuring Snipes.
Video-Reviewmaster.com
Feb 23, 2008
Van Peebles wanted to tell this story; his heart is in it, and it's got a killer beat. Full Review
Washington Post
Jan 1, 2000
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. Full Review
Movie Metropolis
Aug 17, 2005
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. Full Review
TV Guide
Oct 30, 2007
NEW JACK CITY codified the hip-hop-gangsta image as much as any Ruthless Records release...
Rolling Stone
Aug 25, 2005
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. Full Review
EmanuelLevy.Com
Sep 16, 2006
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
May 20, 2003

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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  • UPC: 883929244454
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