Menace II Society (Director's Cut) R

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Menace II Society (Director's Cut)
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DVD Details

  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 38 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: September 8, 2009
  • Originally Released: 1993
  • Label: New Line Home Video

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User Ratings: 62,653
Regrettably, the Hughes brothers' first feature is a compendium of clichés. Full Review
Time Out
Feb 9, 2006
Rating: 2.5/5 -- If Menace II Society is terrific on ambiance, it is considerably less successful in revealing character.
New York Times
May 20, 2003
...Fierce, violent and searing in its observation, the film makes all previous excursions seem like a walk in the park....There is a poetry to the images that is immediate and visceral...
Variety
May 17, 1993
The Hughes brothers' debut is an exhilarating urban nightmare. Full Review
Film4
Mar 17, 2008
Don't let the silly styling of the title put you off; this is a powerful, convincing, and terrifying look at teenage crime in contemporary Watts. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Mar 17, 2008
Along with BOYZ N THE HOOD, this marks the film world's awakening to a dark period of gang violence in early-'90s LA.
Uncut
Sep 1, 2004
Pounding "gangsta" rap also drives forward this tour of the projects and bungalows of Watts. Sharp, slangly dialogue and intense action scenes also make this a watchable and often wrenching vision of the way too many young Americans live, and die, today. Full Review
Hartford Courant
May 29, 2018

Product Description:

Vivid documentary-like anecdotes focusing on a homeboy who is a sociopathic killer and another who tells the story of how their parents' lives also fed the cycle of drug use, casual homicide and monstrous, mind-numbing violence.

Product Description:

The place is Watts, but it could be any urban area blighted by guns and poverty. The person is 18-year-old Caine, but he could be any young man in the ’hood. The movie could only be Menace II Society, the bravura, uncompromising look at Caine’s spiral – from missed opportunities to inescapable missteps – into the inner-city cycle of hate and death. The filmmaking duo The Hughes Brothers (Dead Presidents, From Hell) made their feature debut with this urgent instant classic now available in a compelling Extended Director’s Cut. The actors (including Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate and Jada Pinkett) electrify. The pace sears. And Menace II Society hits with an emotional impact that will leave you stunned.

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  • UPC: 794043125621
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