Don't let the silly styling of the title put you off; this is a powerful, convincing, and terrifying look at teenage crime in contemporary Watts.
Menace II Society (1993)
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Reviews Counted: 35
Fresh: 30
Rotten:5
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: When Caine and O-Dog, two handsome boyz-from-the-hood, breeze into a Korean grocery, the anxious grocer and his watchful wife find their imposing presence troubling. Resentful of the sharp-eyed... When Caine and O-Dog, two handsome boyz-from-the-hood, breeze into a Korean grocery, the anxious grocer and his watchful wife find their imposing presence troubling. Resentful of the sharp-eyed survelliance and air of suspicion around them, Caine and O-Dog yell epithets at the mom-and-pop owners. Angered by the shouting match and a remark about his mother, trigger-happy O-Dog shoots the grocers. On his way out, Caine grabs the videotape from the store's security camera. Back in the 'hood, O-Dog makes a boastful ritual of showing the tape to friends who find his recklessness funnier than amateur night at the Apollo. But it's just a matter of time before the cops catch up with Caine and O-Dog, especially since Caine's fingerprints were on the 40-ounce bottle he dropped at the scene of the crime. [More]
Starring: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Bill Duke, Charles S. Dutton
Starring: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Bill Duke, Charles S. Dutton, Vonte Sweet, Larenz Tate, Glenn Plummer, Christopher M. Brown
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
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Reviews for Menace II Society
Bleak, brilliant, and unsparing: a full-scale vision of the madness that is tearing up the black inner city.
An impressive first feature from the 21-year-old twin brother directing team of Albert and Allen Hughes.
Fierce, violent and searing in its observation, the film makes previous excursions seem like a stroll through the park.
The most stunning feature debut in the new African-American cinema, even more so than Boyz N the Hood to which the coming-of age feature bears thematic resemblance.
Regrettably, the Hughes brothers' first feature is a compendium of clichés.
Um retrato impiedoso (e real) de uma sociedade preconceituosa, injusta e massacrante que transforma jovens em ameaças e que, infelizmente, é encontrada em todo o mundo.
If Menace II Society is terrific on ambiance, it is considerably less successful in revealing character.
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