Fresh
I'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up. I liked it just enough.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Paid in Full
The American Dream... Their way.
2002 · 1h 38m · R
Action, Crime, Drama
Directed by
Charles Stone III
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Overview
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch, goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky breaks and solid interpersonal skills, Ace moves to the top of the Harlem drug world. Of course, unfaithful employees and/or rivals conspire to bring about Ace's fall.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
53%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
Ted Fry, Seattle Times
Rotten
Needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance.
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle
Fresh
Rings true, from the smooth dialogue to the unaffected performances of the central actors.
Megan Turner, New York Post
Rotten
A fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
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