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Movie Review: ALPO, but what about WAYNE PERRY
Summary: 5 Stars
I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH...it was really good and I loved Alpo, but the question is what about WAYNE PERRY storyMovie Review: Classic MOVIE!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Highly recommended. All actors do an amazing job, even Camron! Easily one of the best hood movies out!Movie Review: Drug dealers get paid in cash but pay it back in blood!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie is actually really good. The acting is amazing. The direction is good, the script is well done, the dialouge is also very convincing. Although I was young in the mid 80's (I was about seven or eight) I rember from the music videos and from how older kids dressed that this movie captured that era perfectly. This movie is extreemly authentic. Being a drug dealer was a lot easier in the 80s than it is now. Less competation, less attention from the cops, etc. Also Cocaine was not nearly as plentiful and was thus much more expensive....The star of this film plays Avon Barksdale on the HBO series "The Wire". In this movie he is a lot nicer than he is on the wire, more of a buisness man and less of a gangster. Michael Phifer, who plays Mitch, is practaclly a staple now of any movie invovling the hood but he is defintly a good actor. Nither "Avon" or Phifer give their best perfomances in this movie but they are both solid. However, Camron is amazing. I know, I know, he had the juiceist, easiest part, the least complex character, etc. However, no one can say he did not impress in this movie, he blew me away! Wow! And I did not even know that was Camron until the ending credits, the whole movie I was thinking, who is this guy, how come I have never heard of him before, etc. Only when I read the credits did I know who he was, I did not Camron was so big and diseal. He has unbelivable screen presence, the viewer canot take their eyes off of him. He outacts everyone is this movie. Even though he had a less challanging role than everyone else in the film that does not change the fact that his performance was incrediable. Not since Tupac Shakur died have I seen an a rapper act that well. (Dont get me wrong, he does not compare to Tupac, but he is the closest thing we currently have in terms of acting ability)I really cant say enough good things about his perfomance, so convcing as the loudmouth, obnouxious, but incredibly dangerous gangster. His only weakness his overconfidence and love of the spot light. What a character contrast to "Avon" the the guy who played Ace in this movie. Ace was smarter than Rico though and thats why he managed to avoid jail while Rico got played. I liked the ending too, the kidnapping out of nowhere was great, showing that just because these guys are drug dealers does not mean they are the only low lives in the hood. All three main characters paid the price for all the easy money they made, no one gets off unscatheed although justice certainly does not prevail. Ace goes on the be a legitimate entrapuner, although he got his foot in the door with blood soaked drug money, but hey, thats life. If Ace had stayed at the laundry he would have been poor for ever, he did what he had to do to benefit himself, however, he caused untold misery doing it. Life is no fairytale and taking the moral highground will result in poverty and hopelessnes. However, choosing the dark path of narcotics sales results in a parinoid existence of betrayal, murder, and incarceration. Their are no easy choices or clear moral distinctions in this movie, this movie is the truth!Movie Review: one of my favorite harlem joints joe brown
Summary: 4 Stars
camron who was big in 2002 as a rapper show me he can act his but off in this film not only did he do serious acting but he was a little funny at times this is one of my black movies in harlem i which this movie was a little longer as most black films are but it is ok so many things happened in this movie this movie takes place in the mid 1980s in the greatest borough of nyc imo ace is a young black boy who works at a clothing sweat shop he makes little money and dresses funny which was at times funny because ace being a blackman couldn't dress for nothing in the world his best friend mitch would endlessly tease him naming him the george jefferson of da black ghetto ace cs da his friend mitch holds da crown of harlm he nos about da streets as much as mitch but he trys 2 stay good in da hood until a upper class latino man gives him some angel dust at first he trys to give it back 2 da man but da man wants him 2 keep it ace keeps it and sells it 2 some1 that changes ace mind of living like mitch he changes his clothes and gets some cool rides while mitch goes 2 jail 4 committing a crime then he meets up with camron they both become friends and partners and decide 2 work 2 gether with da new improve ace 2 form themselve in2 da 3 kings of harlem rico cameron introduce himself 2 ace and says he'll help him out with any da ace needs making money ace doesn't like rico because rico is crazier than ace and mitch put 2gether but i have 2 admit out of da three rico is da best dresser he dress his butt off through da entire movie but his action speaks louder than his words da funny and graphic scene is when he shoots some1 n da but he then wears his bed clothes while posing in da air with a gun with a couple of ladies of his in da background and he finally takes a person clothes off because rico didn't like what da man said 2 him rico then throws his ulimate tantrum when ace gets jump and shoot in the head 2 twice and is no longer able 2 run da 3 king gang of harlem ace retires as a drug dealer gangsta but camron rico isn't too happy while his loyal friend mitch is understanding than later on mitch brother is kidnapped and killed by da person that owns a store in harlem before mithc brother get killed he and ace raise about 500 thousand dollars and told rico that they needed more money 2 get back mitch's brother but rico wasn't havin that so he killed mitch to keep all da money and he try 2 fool with ace but ace all ready knew what rico did so he played it off infront of rico like he didn't no anything 2 have him setup and sentence 2 25 2 life in jail and that is how da movie ends with ace growing old and seeing his best friend n sight as a ghost 1 more time this is a good movie worth seein again and againMovie Review: Drugs, gangs, family: this movie definitely paid in full.
Summary: 4 Stars
When I first check the summary on the back cover of this DVD casing, I'd figured, "Aw, man. Not another movie about drug dealers at the projects", but after watching PAID IN FULL, there was more to this movie than from my previous expectation. This movie was based on a true story, and it was depicit on that true nature pretty well. It was about a typical brotha' narratin' his life as a low-down homeboy named Ace working at a low-down dry-cleaner shop in the mid-80s, and later he decides to walk down the road of "drug-dealership"; coincidentely, he follows the road the way Al Pacino does in SCARFACE. He starts his "business" cheap for the "consumers", hire peeps to control marketing order in the streets, so "everybody can eat" and Ace can bring love and respect for the people on the streets and his family and friends, while at the same, keeping his business discreet from 'the man'. Sadly, as good as how he keep everything organized for the good of his fellowship, he hasn't a clue to the hardship and sacrifices he's going to face as he walks down this easy road.As recyclable and semi-predictable this movie can be, PAID IN FULL is deep, and it does wonders on showing the experience on a drug dealer's life. For a company that makes Jay-Z LPs, Roc-a-fella did a good job making this movie, and for brining a good selection of cast, not to mentions collaboratin' few of the rappers like Cam-ron and Doug E. Fresh. Wood Harris did good with his narration and portrayin' Ace, but I got to give it up to Mekhi Phifer. He show a lot of passion with his role showing how much he supports his friends and his younger brother hoping his bro' would be a better person in the future, and for that, I'd say his acting was very good. It's not wonderful, but he did a pretty strong performance. The music score is good as well, but strangely, in one certain scene, the movie's playing a Phil Collins's song in the background. Why did they even put that song in a movie like this, I'm not so sure.
I would've wanted more from this movie after watching it, but the extras in this DVD are lacking, since it only has a commentary and trailers for other films. To 'da point, PAID IN FULL isn't gonna put a gunshot through my chest and into my heart(in a positive remark), it isn't provoking enough to see this different than any other films of the same theme, but with its above-par actors and true-to-life nature of 80s uptown, this movie has paid in full and served me well to enjoy it.