Dead Presidents may eventually box itself into a narrative dead end, but its muscular engagement of weighty themes and explosive situations makes it a powerful drama.
Comment
03/26/09
Dead Presidents (1995)
55
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:6
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The year is 1968, and Anthony, a naive, sweet black teen from the Bronx, impulsively decides to join the Marines and fight in Vietnam. After a very disturbing tour of duty, Anthony returns home in... [More]
Starring: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N'Bushe Wright
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Get This Movie
Rent DVD
Click on the "ADD" button to put this movie into your Netflix queue.
Buy DVD
Reviews for Dead Presidents
1 - 11 (sorted by date)
Top CriticLike those overreaching sophomore term papers we can all laugh at now, this disappointing film may free the Hughes brothers to move on to fresher, more inspired work.
05/20/03
Top CriticIt's an overly ambitious effort that strains to work as a coming-of-age drama, a 1960s period piece and a searing comment on the way African American GIs went largely unappreciated for their war efforts.
06/18/02
Top CriticWhat emerges is an uneasy blend of didacticism and juiced-up bloodletting (the brothers don't know when to stop with the exploding squibs) that bury the film's message and its good intentions.
05/12/01
Top CriticMade with fluid skill and a passion for storytelling, its tale of how the Vietnam War and American society affect a black Marine remains accessible while confounding expectations.
02/13/01
Top CriticUnfortunately, the story manages to be intense (and very bloody), heartfelt and superficial, all at the same time.
01/01/00
Top CriticDead Presidents is like a shotgun blast in the face: It's that powerful, that lethal, that ugly.
01/01/00
Top CriticPeople of any color can sympathize with the plight of Anthony Curtis and understand, if not agree with, the eventual choices life forces him to make.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Here is a film that feels incomplete, as if its last step is into thin air. Scene by scene you feel its skill, but you leave the theater wondering about the meaning of it all.
01/01/00
Top CriticNo review available.
01/01/00
Top Critic1 - 11 (sorted by date)
RT On Current TV
What’s Hot On RT
Fresh Links
Featured
Best Nude Scenes of the Year 
Moviefone lists their top ten nude scenes from film in 2009.
Hollywood.com's Best of 2009
Thomas Leupp offers us Hollywood.com's take on the best films of the year.
Best Dozen of the Decade
Last week, MSN gave us their top 09 films. Now see what their favorites of the decade are!
Top 10 Movies of 2009
TIME chimes in with their own list of the best films released this year.
Top 20 of the Decade
Click through to see which movies BuzzSugar placed in their Best-of-Decade list!
Promos
Follow RT on Twitter
Get the latest Tomatometer updates on upcoming movies!
RSS Feeds