This is an exceedingly well directed, cleverly filmed and edited, tension-filled affair. It is also a wholly preposterous, muddled, paranoid view of the inner-city nightmare where the slightest misstep is sure to have a fateful result.
Judgment Night
Don't move. Don't whisper. Don't even breathe.
1993 · 1h 50m · R
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Stephen Hopkins
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Judgment Night
Overview
Four young friends, while taking a shortcut en route to a local boxing match, witness a brutal murder which leaves them running for their lives.
Director and cast
- Stephen Hopkins Director
- Emilio Estevez as Francis "Frank" Wyatt
- Cuba Gooding Jr. as Mike Peterson
- Denis Leary as Fallon
- Stephen Dorff as John Wyatt
- Jeremy Piven as Ray Cochran
- Peter Greene as Sykes
- Michael DeLorenzo as Teddy, the Kid
- Everlast as Rhodes
- Michael Wiseman as Travis
- Relioues Webb as Dre
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
A tight, energetic sleeper in the action-adventure genre, manages to pack a few anti-machismo sentiments into an otherwise brawny tale.
The filmmakers have made a big deal of a soundtrack that features 10 collaborations between rappers and rockers (the theme is performed by De La Soul and Teenage Fan Club), but their casting consciousness is less adventurous.
It's refreshing to know that it's not just characters in horror films who are irredeemably dumb.
Perhaps the ultimate Judgment comes from Estevez, who observes: 'Nothing about tonight makes sense.'
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