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State Property (2002)

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Reviews Counted:12

Fresh:0

Rotten:12

Average Rating:2/10

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for strong violence and sexuality, nonstop language, and drug content

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jan 18, 2002 Limited

Box Office: $2,070,892

Synopsis: Rapper Memphis Bleek and his Roc-A-Fella crew star in this gritty urban crime drama based on actual events. Determined to make big cash, local Philly thug Beans (Beanie Siegel) forms a gang he dubs... Rapper Memphis Bleek and his Roc-A-Fella crew star in this gritty urban crime drama based on actual events. Determined to make big cash, local Philly thug Beans (Beanie Siegel) forms a gang he dubs the A.B.M. (All 'Bout Money) and declares that all his rivals better "get down or lay down." Bleek, Jay-Z, Omillio Sparks, Freeway, and Damon Dash are some of his friends and enemies along the way. Beans earns plenty of cash, and a nice home in the suburbs for his family, but like all movie gangsters he doesn't know when to quit. The body count rises, his old lady (Sundy Carter) gets kidnapped, and incarceration threatens when a surviving victim decides to rat Beans out to the cops. First-time director Abdul Malik Abbot smartly eschews any morality, romance or phony glamour in favor of a practical, no-nonsense, sex-and-violence approach. The film's real strength, however, is the naturalistic performances of the actors and their ease with the quotable, expletive-rich dialogue. STATE PROPERTY should delight viewers schooled in rap music and gangster films, but others may find themselves needing subtitles to decipher the thick slang. It's filmed on digital video, blown up to 35mm for theatrical release. [More]

Starring: Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek, Damon Dash, Sundy Carter

Starring: Beanie Sigel, Memphis Bleek, Damon Dash, Sundy Carter, Jay-Z, Dee Lee, Chris Eric Williams, Omillio Sparks, Freeway

Director: Abdul Malik Abbott

Director: Abdul Malik Abbott
Screenwriter: Ernest Anderson
Producer: Ron Rotholz
Composer: Jay-Z, Memphis Bleek
Studio: Lions Gate Films

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04/08/02
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The acting is amateurish, the cinematography is atrocious, the direction is clumsy, the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing.

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03/19/02
Joe Leydon
Joe Leydon
San Francisco Examiner

A dull, simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs, death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets.

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03/19/02
Rachel Deahl
Rachel Deahl
Boxoffice Magazine

No one involved, save Dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director Abdul Malik Abbott and Ernest 'Tron' Anderson, seems entirely improvised.

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03/07/02
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
New Times

A film of empty, fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun.

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02/28/02
Chris Vognar
Chris Vognar
Dallas Morning News
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... for all its social and political potential, State Property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful.

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01/25/02
Cynthia Fuchs
Cynthia Fuchs
Nitrate Online

A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns, expensive cars, lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing.

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01/22/02
Bill Pearis
Bill Pearis
Citysearch

Basically a static series of semi-improvised (and semi-coherent) raps between the stars.

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01/21/02
Lou Lumenick
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New York Post
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Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago.

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01/19/02
A.O. Scott
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