Thriller · Crime
New Jack City
They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
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Top Cast
Wesley Snipes
Nino Brown
Ice-T
Scotty Appleton
Allen Payne
Garald "Gee Money" Welles
Chris Rock
Pookie
Mario Van Peebles
Stone
Michael Michele
Selina
Bill Nunn
Duh Duh Duh Man
Russell Wong
Park
Directed by
Mario Van Peebles
Production
Warner Bros. PicturesReviews
tmdb28039023
6/108/28/2022
New Jack City is convoluted, contrived, and heavy-handed, ending with a caption warning us to “confront the [drug] problem realistically, without empty slogans and promises”. Well, the characters in the movie certainly eschew empty slogans in favor of some of the most memorable catchphrases ever committed to film (“Sit your five-dollar ass down before I make change,” “I want to shoot you so bad, my d*ck's hard,” etc., etc.), but it might be a bit of a stretch to say that they deal with the problem realistically – and it’s actually the little things, such as our old friend the Red Digital Readout, that cast doubt over the proceedings; conversely, the elephant in the room – i.e., the taking over and conversion into a huge crack house of an entire apartment complex – is based on fact (the har
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