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State Property 2 (2005)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
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Hip-hop mogul Damon Dash wrote, directed, and stars in this hard-hitting examination of life in the criminal underground of a great city. Three different crime bosses are locked in a battle over the drug trade in Philadelphia. New York transplant Dame (Damon Dash) and his umbrella crew command a powerful network that controls the city's dope traffic, but he has two bitter rivals who both oversee competing gangs from behind bars -- Beans (Beanie Siegel), Philly-born leader of the once-dominant

R, 1 hr. 34 min.

Drama, Action & Adventure

Directed By: Damon Dash

Written By: Adam Moreno

In Theaters: Apr 13, 2005 Wide

On DVD: Jul 12, 2005

Box Office:$1.7M

Lions Gate Films

Seeing two truly rich characters battling for supremacy can have the power of a symphony. Seeing two posses of dull thugs blasting away at each other has all the appeal of a CD single with a skip.

April 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger

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Stephen Whitty

Newark Star-Ledger

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Dash can't decide whether he's making New Jack City or Friday.

April 14, 2005 Comment

David Hiltbrand

Philadelphia Inquirer

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You mean there was a State Property 1?

April 14, 2005 Comment

Michael Rechtshaffen

Hollywood Reporter

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Dash's film is less the stuff cults are made of than fantasies.

April 14, 2005 Full Review Source: Detroit Free Press

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Terry Lawson

Detroit Free Press

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Slicker, funnier and more professional than its predecessor.

April 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Variety

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Ronnie Scheib

Variety

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No more three-dimensional than your average brand-name-laden hip-hop video.

April 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Neil Drumming

Entertainment Weekly

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Less a sequel to a film than a brand extension.

April 15, 2005 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

Those interested in annoying things like plot or plausibility are best off steering clear of this inane celebration of all things thug.

April 13, 2005 Full Review Source: FilmJerk.com

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Edward Havens

FilmJerk.com

The plot is strictly subservient to repetitive shootouts, the dialogue consisting of enough "f" and "n" words to be considered by Guinness.

April 12, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Harvey S. Karten

Compuserve

State Property 2's daisy wheel of violence represents a reckless glorification of thug life.

April 9, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

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October 8, 2007

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Absolute garbage. Racist, offensive, mysoginistic glorification of the drug life and murder. This movie is inexcusable and complete trash, with not a single redeeming quality. It is escencially a commercial for the image rap has been selling for the past 15 or so years: selling drugs is cool, killing people is cool,

April 2, 2007

Eduardo C

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1. Baby Boy: We in the whole for 90...D, you aint moving!
– Submitted by Jamie W (2 months ago)
1. Beans: A.B.M. Crew: All Bout Money
– Submitted by Linda M (8 months ago)

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