Fresh
Though this often plays like a 70s cop show, it became a prototype for the bling-heavy gangsta melodramas of the 90s.
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader
New Jack City
They're a new breed of gangster. The new public enemy. The new family of crime.
1991 · 1h 41m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Mario Van Peebles
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New Jack City
Overview
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Director and cast
- Mario Van Peebles Director
- Wesley Snipes as Nino Brown
- Ice-T as Scotty Appleton
- Allen Payne as Garald "Gee Money" Welles
- Chris Rock as Pookie
- Mario Van Peebles as Stone
- Michael Michele as Selina
- Bill Nunn as Duh Duh Duh Man
- Russell Wong as Park
- Bill Cobbs as Old Man
- Christopher Williams as Kareem Akbar
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
77%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Filmmakers pull off a provocative, pulsating update on gangster pics with this action-laden epic about the rise and fall of an inner city crack dealer.
Variety Staff, Variety
Fresh
It's a superior example of what used to be called blaxploitation, with Van Peebles piling on corruption and carnage for all he's worth.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
The movie was advertised (no doubt wisely) as a slam-bang action adventure, but in fact it's a serious, smart film with an impact that lingers after the lights go up.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Fresh
The film's use of once-imposing, now-crumbling New York architecture is particularly effective in underscoring the story with an air of widespread urban decay.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
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