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Critics Consensus: Though well-acted and non-exploitative, Paid in Full treads a very well-worn story.
Critic Consensus: Though well-acted and non-exploitative, Paid in Full treads a very well-worn story.
All Critics (43) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (23) | Rotten (20) | DVD (3)
I'm going to give it a marginal thumbs up. I liked it just enough.
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
Needed a little less bling-bling and a lot more romance.
Rings true, from the smooth dialogue to the unaffected performances of the central actors.
A fake street drama that keeps telling you things instead of showing them.
It does offer an uncommon thoughtfulness that makes it far less exploitative or sensationalistic than most examples of its genre.
Violent crime drama about drug dealer has constant cursing.
hough it shows bling, strong feelings for the inner city and the acting is solid, the derivative story won't knock you out.
Harris and Phifer's chemistry lends the inevitable tragedies some genuine punch.
"Paid In Full" is not the kind of movie that George W. Bush will ever see.
Stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation.
For a rapsploitation film to target and frown upon the darker forces of its nature is certainly a good sign for the maturation of the genre.
Paid in Full has a gritty realistic quality that is excellent in its' world building. It's well acted by largely unknowns, and succeeds in painting a real picture of Harlem without making it glamorous. The pacing, however is uneven, with the film seemingly dragging at points. More time should also have been devoted to fleshing out some of the characters. Still, its realism reminded me of The Wire, the greatest crime show ever.
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