Menace II Society (1993)
86 %
Reviews Counted: 35 Fresh: 30 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 7.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
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 survelliance and air of suspicion around them, Caine and O-Dog yell epithets at the... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Tyrin Turner, Jada Pinkett, Bill Duke, Charles S. Dutton, Vonte Sweet
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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.
03/17/08 01:29 PM
Top Critic Bleak, brilliant, and unsparing: a full-scale vision of the madness that is tearing up the black inner city.
03/17/08 01:28 PM
Top Critic The Hughes brothers' debut is an exhilarating urban nightmare.
03/17/08 01:27 PM
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03/17/08 01:27 PM
An impressive first feature from the 21-year-old twin brother directing team of Albert and Allen Hughes.
03/17/08 01:25 PM
Fierce, violent and searing in its observation, the film makes previous excursions seem like a stroll through the park.
03/17/08 01:25 PM
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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.
12/27/06 01:59 PM
Regrettably, the Hughes brothers' first feature is a compendium of clichés.
02/09/06 03:16 AM
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.
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04/18/05 12:28 AM
If Menace II Society is terrific on ambiance, it is considerably less successful in revealing character.
05/20/03 05:20 PM
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what the song start of chapter 3????
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