Juice
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Movie Reviews of Juice
Movie Review: 90's urban morality tale with suspsene and great acting
Summary: 5 Stars
You can read other folks reviews to get the gist of the plot, so I'll skip it...
Main thing I can say about this movie is that it's a morality tale, but with a lot of action and suspense.
The music, the lighting, the camera shots, the cuts, they all add to the suspense that takes off in one crucial scene and then builds. The bedroom DJ scene with "Q" cutting up records is one highlight, but as things move forward Tupac's acting really starts to run the film. No matter what you feel about the current cashing on Pac as the James Dean of Hip Hop, he did a dang good job of acting in this film. The creepy detachment, snake like smoothness, and cold calculatedness of Bishop is pretty creepy & memorable. If you want to see one movie that shows the late Tupac's acting skills, this would be it.
However, equally as good in my opinion is the acting of Omar Epps. The looks of fear, caution, and trepidation Epps gives are a great contrast to Tupac's eerie ghetto smoothness. Just with his facial expressions, Epps's character is a symbol of the lost innocence and fear experienced by ghetto youth. No matter how much Q just wants to DJ, like many urban youth, through allegience to the wrong friends, he suddenly gets caught up in a tragic, dangerous, and tension filled situation. The danger keeps escalating, no matter how hard he tries to avoid it, until he decides to confront his nemesis. Epps character shows the mounting suspense in as understated a way as a real urban teenager might have in a similar situation. In my opinion, really good acting from Epps.
The other important point I will make is that ultimately "Juice" is an anti-violence film. When a character is shot, the movie STOPS...the characters are shellshocked...the movie makes sure to highlight the emotional effects of what has just taken place. THAT is the reaction to violence that Hollywood SHOULD display in more films. Violence is still a terrible, shocking thing, and Juice (unlike MANY other films) makes sure THAT message gets across loud and clear, without the characters having to make excessive speeches about it. As we all know, this is a lesson the hip hop generation had to learn through the actual loss of Tupac not too many years after.
This is an action packed, suspenseful hip hop movie with very good acting from Epps and the late Pac- a 90's classic
Movie Review: This movie is a must-see! I watch this movie so much, i know the lines! LOL
Summary: 5 Stars
Now, i'm not a big fan of movies but this is just about as good as it gets when you want to find an african american hood movie with not much violence. the language is a little too much but not unbearable. thre are some very good actors in this movie...especailly khalil kain who, in this movie was taken away too soon over something pointless. he plays Raheem and he is the leader of Wrecking Crew (Bishop, Q, and Steel). Bishop is played by Tupac who does an outstanding job! I mean this dude was out of his rabbit mind. Q, who is played by Omar Epps who also does a super job, is laid back and he doesn't like getting into uncalled trouble...for he is trying to take off with his career Deejaying and doesn't want anything to come between that. Steel, who is perfectly played by Jermaine Hopkins is a scaredy cat.lol. which is why he is so funny in this movie. don't expect him to crack jokes every minute though. Many other artists makes cameos in here. Flex Alexander, Queen Latifah, Samuel Jackson, etc... Everything just blends together perfectly. some people on here say this movie is garbage but they do not know what they are talking about i promise you. this is a CLASSIC! I watch this movie so much i know all the lines. take it from me, the non- movie fanatic. this is definately worth the buy. i don't even watch that many other movies because i keep watching Juice! lol this movie is hot and everyone looks good.Movie Review: 2pac's most AMAZING performance ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Juice is a hip-hop charged adrenaline rush of a movie that takes place in the busy streets of New York. The star is Q(Omar Epps) who is a DJ and kicks it with his click called the Wreckin Crew. His buddies are Raheem(Khalil Kain),Steele(Jermaine "Big Hugg" Hopkins), and Bishop(the late great 2pac Shakur). The wreckin crew have fun and roam the streets looking for trouble and doing what most teenagers do. Thry are surrounded by violence and chaotic occurences. Q sees a friend Blizzard rob a diner(with EPMD in it)and later reveals he was shot by police, and the Wreckin Crew is harassed by a rival gang led by Radimez, a Latin thug who at one point threatens Bishop. Q tries to get a spot on a DJ tournament unaware that his crew is planning to rob a convenience store. As soon as they get the money, Bishop deliberately kills the clerk. Two minutes later, Bishop kills Raheem. Obviously, Bishop has LOST HIS MIND and it is up to Q, who is the only person who knows the truth, to defend himself against one of the most psychotic and brilliantly menacing villains in the entire history of cinema! The most amazing scene is a part where 2pac is playing a video game in a bar and somehow breaks the arcade game. The close-up of his eyes shows what kind person Bishop has turned into. The bartender says "Man, what you do to my machine". One of my ten favorite films of ALL TIME!Movie Review: Great Performance b 2PAC
Summary: 5 Stars
I can remember when this movie first hit the scene in '92. I was only 3, but my brothers (who were 15 and 16 at the time) used to watch it all the time and so did I. This movie was the first time I ever saw Omar Epps or 2Pac(RIP). Both of those brothers definitely did their thing. To this I still use 2Pac famous quote when somebody calls me crazy: "You right I am crazy but you know what? I don't give a f*ck!" Y'all can think I'm weird, but his character was my favorite one in the movie. I can understand how he could go crazy after he had been pushed around by that Puerto Rican cat and everybody else. He was tired of runnin'. He felt as if he was on "the damn track team". But as for Omar Epps character, I felt he on want to be a dj and not be another knucklehead from the hood. I wouldn't feelin' him on throwing away that little .25 he bought. I would have took 2Pac's character out. If you haven't seen this movie, you are definitely missin' out on a hip hop classic.Movie Review: one of the best movies ever made
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is the quintessential because it revolves around four group of friends who want to have the juice or respect that they see some many others have; but it's the way that find that juice that makes them the person who they are. Tupac truly shines throughout this film as does Epps who plays Q, a local rapper trying to find his own juice too. But Tupac delivers who really became his character is this movie. As does Khali Kan and Jermaine, the audience can really see the chemistry on screen that Ernest wanted to portray for this film. It's different than other African-American cinema ever produced; though it captures the true essence as to how far someone will go to get their "juice" and as to what lengths they will go to achieve their dreams. This is definitely a movie that I will consider to be a bucket list of movies that everyone has to see before the die.