Wesley Snipes

Ice-T

Allen Payne

Chris Rock

Mario Van Peebles

Michael Michele

Bill Nunn

Russell Wong

Bill Cobbs

Christopher Williams

Judd Nelson

Vanessa Williams

Tracy Camilla Johns

Anthony DeSando

Nick Ashford

Phyllis Yvonne Stickney

Thalmus Rasulala

John Aprea

Fab 5 Freddy

Flavor Flav

Clebert Ford

Laverne Hart

Eek-A-Mouse

Gregg Smrz

Erica McFarquhar

Keith Sweat

Max Rabinowitz

Marcella Lowery

Manuel E. Santiago

Ben Gotlieb

Thelma Louise Carter

Linda Froehlich

Christopher Michael

Kelly Jo Minter

Tina Lifford

Erik Kilpatrick

Ron Millkie

Harold Baines

Sekou Campbell

Garvin Holder

Teddy Riley

Aaron Hall

Damion Hall

Rodney Benford

John Harrell

Gerald Levert

Sean Levert

Jimmy Cummings

Akosua Busia

Lia Chang

Jake LaMotta

Larry M. Cherry

Cynthia Elane

Toni Ann Johnson

Candece Tarpley

Chris Thornton

Doug McHenry

Thomas Lee Wright

John McCabe

Francis Kenny

Barry Michael Cooper

Steven Kemper

Pat Golden

Charles C. Bennett

Preston L. Holmes

Danny Aiello III

Dwight Williams

George Jackson

G. A. Aguilar

Brent Owens

John Newby

Barbra Matis

Cornelia 'Nini' Rogan

Bernard Johnson

Ed Hershberger

Keith Gardner

Joseph Ray

Kevin Stitt

James Bigwood

Suzanne Broderick

Elaine O'Donnell

Michel Colombier

Roberta J. Holinko

Ted Churchill

Myra-Lee Cohen

Rosa Howell-Thornhill

Laura Brock

Jery Hewitt

Gregory Irwin

Frank Stettner

Diane Hammond

Jill E. Anderson

Aaron F. Quarles

Ellie Winslow

Paul Wachter

Octavio Molina

Tom Kudlek

Laura Jean West

Martin Andrews

Jane E. Myers

Charles Houston

Robert M. Andres

Barbara Hause

Val DeSalvo

Jacek Laskus

Terry Burke

Robert Thirlwell

Jeff Gullo

Robert G. Henderson

Lise Richardson

Marlene Arvan

Raymond M. Samitz

Mike Le Mare

Alan Robert Murray

Kevin Ladson

Douy Swofford

Robert Fitzgerald

Robert L. Sephton

Darrin Martin

Brooke Henderson Ward

Lillian Pyles

Wade Bartlett

Jeffrey L. Glave

Jeff Lengyel

Janelle Showalter

Patrick Cyccone Jr.

Wilfred Caban

Dan Wallin

Jayme S. Parker

Rachel Shaw

Joel David Warren

Karola Storr

Robert Deschaine

Steven Kirshoff

Parnes Cartwright

Bub Asman

Carl Zittrer

Max Van Peebles

Ed Dessisso

David S. Lomax

Bill Anagnos

Paul Bucossi

Don Picard

Lance Guecia

Norman Douglass

Bruce Smolanoff

Jalil Jay Lynch

Thriller

Crime

Drama

New Jack City

Jacmac Films

Jackson/McHenry Company, The

Warner Bros. Pictures

United States of America

English

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 hardest things to believe are sometimes the most veridical; compare the upside down-flying commercial airplane in Flight).

The script is sometimes platitudinous, sometimes downright nonsensical, but always, as I hinted above, endlessly entertaining and quotable. Similarly, the plot and is underdeveloped but not shallow, and the film overall has its heart in the right place.

This is a vibrant movie, but it's not just for people who like bright colors; NJC knows the importance of looking beyond appearances. A scene of revelatory intertextuality has the antagonists watching Scarface and reaching the conclusion that the only thing Tony Montana ever did wrong was getting “careless.”

And yet, this eye-opening irony is inexplicably lost on rappers like Lil Wayne and Tyga (both of whom have referred to themselves as ‘Young Nino’; don't they remember or care that Nino Brown at one point literally uses a little girl as a human shield?), making them twice as dumb as the people who watch Scarface and leave with the impression that Tony Montana is a role model.

All things considered, NJC is a rather uneven effort whose weaker moments get by on sheer style, reaching a noirish state where what is said and done takes a backseat to how it is said and how it is done – and in that sense Wesley Snipes’s star-making performance (and what should have been a breakthrough role for Chris Rock), supported by a rock-solid (as well as eclectic, ranging from Judd Nelson to Bill Cobbs, who even then was playing the Old Man) ensemble cast and Mario Van Peebles's confident direction, is the glue that holds the film together.

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