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Movie Review: Paid in full
Summary: 4 Stars
Paid in full isn't your typical "ganasta" movie. This one has some depth to it. It's starts off on the stage. The stage is a strip of Harlem that all the big time cats show off there wealth to the ladies and their competion. The movie is really good. Ace is a hard worker at the local cleaners. His friend "Money Making Mitch" is the local big time hustler. Mitch's sister is Ace's girlfriend. Ace knows of the game but doesn't want to involve himself in it. Mitch always clowns him by calling him the "George Jefferson of the projects". Ace then picks up a guys cleaning from his apartment and notices that the gentlemen has left him a present in his pocket. When Ace sells it, it clicks in head. Why spend time sweating in a sweatbox making pennies when I can make serious dollars. So he starts in the game. But his friend Mitch gets busted for taking care of someone who messed with one of his employees. While on the inside, Mitch hears that Ace is blowing up. Making big money. Then Rico (Cam'ron) befriends Mitch when someone made a phone check on him. They both get out and hook up with Ace to make serious money. They are the kings of harlem. Mitch is flashy but chilled with it. Ace is on the downlow. Rico is the wild one. Its one scene when he is taking pictures with a robe on with a piece in the air and when he shows his homeboys how he gets down on videotape. I fell on the ground laughing. But in the end, Rico was a snake and kills Mitch but Ace sets him up to get busted by the FEDS. Overall a pretty good movie. I had a flashback. I had to laugh when I saw those gold BBS on th Saab.Movie Review: The Best Since Menace II Society
Summary: 4 Stars
This indeed has to be the best inner city gangsta flick since Menace II Society, Clockers and New Jack City. The fact that Damon Dash had anything to do with it, makes this even more astonishing. Anyway I've been a big Wood Harris and Mekhi Phifer fan for years so it was good to see these brothers hook up. Cam'ron did well playing his part eventhough I thought his part didn't take a whole lot of skill to do. Anyway, I enjoyed the film very much and would recommend this to anyone who loves inner city gangsta movies. The problems I had with the film were small and minor. Like those up to date cell phones in a pre-minute cell phone era (1985-1986). Man, cell phones then were the size of standard size 900 MHZ cordless telephones. Dem joints were huge back in those days. As far as the convertible SAAB's go, well let's just say that ballers here in DC weren't pushing them joints until 1989-1990. I didn't even know Saab's made them joints that early. And some of the clothes definitely didn't look early 80's to me except for the kicks. However, the music was bangin and to see Doug E. Fresh perform along with hearing Kid Capri, and of course at the very beginning, hearing the GOD of rap, Rakim rap "Paid In Full", well what else is there to say. LL may be the G.O.A.T. in record sales amongst his peers from that day, but we all know Rakim is the G.O.A.T. when it comes to being a lyricist.Movie Review: The American dream, their way
Summary: 4 Stars
The one thing I appriciate about this movie, is it's feel to realisim, and the feel of old harlem hood movies. It's not another State Property, Baby Boy or some horsecrap gangsta movie.
This movie is about Ace(Wood Harris) and his best friend Mitch(Mekhi Phifer) who get good buisness going out, but Mitch is put behind bars when he tries to get a nusience off his block. So Ace makes his move, and makes everyone happy becoming the top dog around.
But in the world of Harlem drug dealers, there's always a load of backstabbing snakes filled with envy. They try to get their way by kidnapping, jacking, and murder. And this movie tells that in a very balievable way.
This movie is highly underratted, and should be seen by everyone in the intrest of hood, or gang movies. Even Cam'ron's preformance is nice too. This movie delievers with actors who can act, and not crap like State Property run by rappers.
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Movie Review: Movie Good; Documentary Low Budget
Summary: 4 Stars
I thought the movie was great. It was entertaining and and did not glorify drug dealing. Besides the lyrics we hear in rap music, Paid In Full showed the tragedy that happens to the majority who are deep in the game. They go to jail or are dead, they don't become rappers. Paid In Full was so moving I wanted to get a more accurate version of what happened and not jus the hollywood story, therefore I bought Game Over. Now that was disappointing! Although the Basically a bunch of people from Harlem talking about how the rap game is fake, AZ was very ambiguous, and Rich Porter's sister rambling on about things she had little knowlede of. Old news stories from Newsday and Washingtonpost of these tragic events gave of more documentary depicition.Movie Review: very entertaining, based on a true story
Summary: 4 Stars
A well made movie about a young kid who finds himself right in the middle of a money making drug ring. This young man works at a dry cleaner shop untill he finds a bag of cocain in a pair of pants, when he trys to give the bag back to the owner he realizes the money he could make and soon sets up shop with this and begins buying large amounts of cocain from him. What started small has now grown into pounds,and pounds of cocain. But people soon become blinded by all the money this is where the movie gets interesting. The ring quickly begins to fall apart and people begin to tur on each other leaving people dead and broke. This movie is a real masterpiece and gives you a look into 80's drug dealing and the problems involved with it.