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Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
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From Time Out Film Guide
The twins' follow-up to Menace II Society is essentially a classic gangster movie (The Roaring Twenties, say) revamped and remoulded for a new context: black experience in the late '60s and early '70s. The war this time is Vietnam, but Anthony Curtis (Tate) comes back to face the age-old problems: unemployment and a woman he hasn't seen for too long. There are intriguing aspects to this yarn, and the brothers can choreograph a scene, but you get the impression that they learned all they know from other movies, the blood and guts is gratuitous, and the episodic narrative takes an awful long time to get nowhere very rewarding. Great heist sequence though.Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Producer: Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes
Cast: Larenz Tate, Rose Jackson, Freddy Rodriguez, Chris Tucker, N'Brushe Wright, Bookeem Woodbine full cast
Genre(s): Gangsters
Duration: 121 mins
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