The DVD's were shipped promptly, was packaged very well, watched the movie the same night I received it. No complaints here.

Very little that's original here. I just don't see it as being some kind of classic.
There is a scene at the beginning where the main lead and his cohorts decide to put all the crack activity in one building: the making, the selling, etc. and one of the honcho's people says: "That's ingenius."


Huh? What's ingenius about it? If the cops assaulted the place you'd lose everything, the whole shebang, all at once. Why make it easier for the authorities? I doubt that drug lords are that dumb in real life. Certainly, some are--the proof is there, but someone as the character portrayed by Wesley Snipes? I doubt it.. I mean the film lost me right there, not to mention the fact that we have seen so many of the scenes in other films that came before it.

The flick just didn't grab me. Also, Judd Nelson, usually very good, seemed lost in the shuffle here--due to lack of focus by the director.

Not to mention: it's truly annoying when filmmakers go around praising their film and telling you how GREAT they think it is.

You know what? That's for the audiance to decide. A little modesty goes a long way. This director doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word.

I've only seen this movie quite recently after hearing about it for years and being told that it's a must see. While actually viewing the movie my opinions were mixed but afterwards everything slid into focus. On the technical side of the movie the directing and editing were nothing new or original, Mario Van Peebles played everything straight out of a textbook and the pacing didn't create any great flow. Most of the acting was far from award winning but not so bad as to distract from the movie itself, for any real length of time at least. Everything about the quality and look of the film screams early 90's, but in an endearing manner. As far as the films influences go, the 1983 version of "Scarface" is the most acknowledged and the one film that this movie will probably be compared to for the rest of its rememberance. However I began to notice something very quickly at the heart of the movie and with the blurb about drugs and drug dealers in America at the end, it became clear that the 1932 "Scarface: Shame of the Nation" had just as large of a part in the shaping of this movie, it serves basically as a PSA to America. This also may account for why everything technically seemed very plain and stereotypical (mind you with very high production value). Take these two movies, throw in a dash of "Cops", a very pop show at the time, add in a lot of the earliest mainstream MC's and you have New Jack City. A movie that still holds appeal after more than 15 years and an eclectic piece of 90's cinema that makes a decent viewing.

"Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a s*** about color."-Nick Perrti

I first saw this in 1993 and was totally blown away by the directing, cinematography, script and acting and so I was really looking forward to seeing it again after an absence of almost thirteen years. But after seeing this a second time, I could scarcely believe I was watching a film I had remembered very well. In 1994 I would have given this film 5 out of 5 but instead I've given it a 4 due to its frail ending.

New Jack City (1991) is an interesting movie that aims to please. This film marks the first time Mario Van Peebles directed a theatrical released film (that his father helped co-write) and he co-stars in the film as well. The movie follows a small time hood Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) who builds up a vast criminal empire by flooding the streets with crack cocaine. Ice-T and Judd Nelson co-stars as well as two unorthodox cops who want to lock up Nino Brown. Allen Payne (Gee Money) and Mario van Peebles himself (Stone) has also giving some approved performances in here.

The acting is not the strongest part of this film but to me, three men made this film worthy of attention which is Wesley, Ice-T, and Rock. Chris Rock is unforgettable in this movie and he shines in his role as the "crack-head" Pookie. He has so many one-liners that are hysterical funny. The real winner is truly Wesley Snipes, who plays a role we don't usually identify with him, and does so with considerable spirit. He is utterly believable; the scene where he describes first killing someone while high on drugs scared the crap out of me - this is not someone I want as a friend! - Which happens to be a central theme of this film.

There are flaws in it to be sure, primarily of continuity - there are moments for which we are unprepared, and loose ends that don't get tied. The "Cash Money" drug cartel never gets its act together as a criminal organization - which may be the point, but in which case this needs greater exploration on the street level - without soldiers, you have no army, a lesson the Mafia could still teach the younger gangs. But taken all-in-all, "New Jack City" is a tough crime thriller, well-presented, with a great cast at their strongest. Despite it flaws, it holds a lot of strong and impressive moments which makes this worth a watch.

One movie that I will probably remember from the 1990s the best is "New Jack City." It tells the story of how Nino Brown (played by Wesely Snipes) and his crew, CMB (Cash Money Brothers) rose to power as crack kingpins by running their operation out of a apartment complex that they take over. I was 2 when I first saw this movie, so I thought that New Jack City was a real place. When I got older I realized that it was New York City when I saw the Statue of Liberty in the opening sequence. People can argue that is movie is another Scarface for many reasons:

1. The dude starts to sell drugs after his homeboy puts him up on game
2. He blows up and becomes sucessful
3. Everything starts to go downhill
4. He kills his best friend
5. He himself gets killed

Those are some of the ways that New Jack City compares but this is how they contrast:

1. Nino is black while Tony is Cuban
2. It shows the devestation that crack did to people who used it and the communities while Scarface just shows the glitz and glamor of Miami
3. It shows the cops struggle to get crack off the streets. While Scarface barely shows Tony making any coke deals at all.
4. It deals with betrayal.

The music also makes the movie good too. It contains songs from co-stars Ice T and Chris Williams. A hip-hop classic in every since of the word

Mario Van Peebles directed and co-stars in this influential and well filmed urban crime saga that surprisingly still holds up today. New Jack City, like King of New York, Boyz N the Hood and Menace II Society, has spawned a host of immitators to this day, but it's Peebles heartfelt message that sets New Jack City apart from others. Peebles stars as one of the honest cops (along with pimp turned rapper turned actor Ice-T and Judd Nelson) trying to nail ruthless drug czar Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and bring down his empire of drugs and murder, to little avail. A young Chris Rock stars as a recovering addict who Ice-T and co. look upon to help them nab Nino, but it soon proves to be something that is much easier said than done. Unlike the "gangsta" films that followed, New Jack City offered a glimmer of hope under the violence and pounding hip-hop soundtrack, and it helped launch the career of the charismatic Snipes who would become an action star as the decade progressed. The rest of the cast does great as well, and it's nice to see that the film gets the Special Edition treatment it has deserved. All in all, New Jack City remains a near classic of the genre, and still manages to hold up to this day.

NEW YORK CITY The two Disc Set Special Edition Should be Added to your Collection,,,,This Movie rule :P

This motion picture is about the crack cocaine epidemic and the devastating impact that it had on life in the inner city. This is a tough and uncompromising movie.

The main character in New Jack City is Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), the leader of the Cash Money Brothers (CMB) gang that is one of the biggest crack cocaine trafficking outfits in New York City (NYC). Together with his partner Gee Money (Allen Payne), Brown lives a glamorous life of luxury, fast cars and hot chicks. To put it mildly, Brown is a poor role model for inner city youth.

As Brown's CMB empire grows, he becomes ever more arrogant. The CMB takes over an apartment building and evicts the inhabitants, including an elderly World War II veteran. The CMB is becoming big, fat and out of control. The CMB is hell bent on contaminating the NYC inner city scene. Brown even dreams of taking down the Mafia so that the CMB can become the dominant organized crime gang in NYC. Brown initiates action against the Mafia and scores some success. The shootouts between the CMB and the Mafia are very well done.

Eventually, the top brass at the New York Police Department (NYPD) wake up to the CMB menace and resolve to do something about it. Two of its best detectives, Scotty Appleton (Ice-T) and Nick Peretti (Judd Nelson) are assigned to the case. The detecting duo get a big break when they come in contact with a druggie named Pookie (Chris Rock). The detectives put Pookie on the road to recovery and Pookie agrees to infiltrate the CMB for the NYPD.

New Jack City is a most interesting movie. On the surface, it is just another cops and drug dealers movie, but it is really more than that. It is a tough, realistic portrayal of the damage wrought to the inner city by the crack cocaine epidemic. It presents an involving story with a strong anti-drug message. This movie really makes clear just how bad the drug problem is in the inner city and how illegal drugs have ravaged the community.

New Jack City is a well executed movie. It features strong performances by such actors as Ice-T and Wesley Snipes, who have generally not made strong performances on other movies. It has a strong script and an involving plot. It probably should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, yet it was not even nominated for an Oscar in any category. This was because, for all its great points, New Jack City was generally regarded by both the critics and the Hollywood elite as a "black" movie and as such unworthy of being considered as legitimate cinema irregardless of how much money it earned for its releasing studio.

This movie was both entertaining and educational in that it taught this country's youth the dangers of drugs and how it
leads to a person's downfall. The message of this film was plain and simple: Crack cocaine can destroy a person's life and damage the lives of others. If we do not continue to fight the war on drugs, then drugs will continue to destroy our country.

No disrespect to those who say this movie is unrealistic but.....it was supposed to take place in a time when crack had first blown up. People were wearing big ass gold chains and all the dealers with this "new" product were blowing up. maybe not a rapidly as shown but, be for real, how much can you show in a 2 hour movie? A rip off of scarface? come on.....80% of the movies made had taken some aspect of another movie and tried to expand on it. New Jack did a pretty good job at that. Solid cast, good action, and brutality that really wasn't shown too much in movies back then. And don't even front.......Half of you who gunned down this movie probably went out and bought that same blue suit that Nino was rockin. And leave Ice T alone. True, he's not the best actor, but this was his breakthrough role and the man did okay. And as for the reviewer who made the statement about "cop killer now playing a cop", boy please.......I could only imagine what you would do on film if the money was right. But this all is just my opinion. See the flick and form your own. 4 stars.

Besides, Scarface and King of New York, this is one of the greatest gangster type movies every made.

Gotta love this one, enough Violence, Drugs, & "F" bombs to saticfy almost anyone! No, seriously, it really is a good movie. But i'm not gonna ramble on for 50 paragraphs like some [...] on why you should rent this. Just do it, and if not...it's your loss! now f*** off!

This DVD took forever to get here;but it was well worth the wait.
New Jack City is A modern day classic it put Wesley Snipes on the
radar screen.This DVD is clear no jumps no static well worth the
discount price I paid for it.If you like NJC Amazon is the place to buy it.Patience will save you A lot of moola.

The two-disc special edition of New Jack City is a great investment for fans of the classic hip-hop drama. Released in 1991, New Jack City was the first feature film Mario Van Peebles released. The film also was a breeding ground for actors who went on to have very successful careers. The music of the "New Jack" movie is almost as memorable as the movie itself. Ice T stars in the film as a "New Jack" cop who goes undercover to break down the "CMB" crime mob. Crack was running rampant. Wesley Snipes starred as Nino Brown and Allen Payne starred as his right hand man "G-Money." It's a great film and Chris Rock appears in the film as a crack head named Pookie. "New Jack City" is the first hip-hop gangsta movie classic. It wasn't just a shoot em' up bang bang movie, it really captures the essence of those mafia/organized crime movies. The DVD's packaging is very nice.

The Road To New Jack City-
This is hands down the best featurette on the special features.
Usually when you see these behind the scenes features, at lease one of the main actors is missing. Not so with New Jack City. Mario Van Peebles (actor/director), Ice-T, Chris Rock, Wesley Snipes, Allen Payne and Judd Nelson speak on the film. It's really interesting to see the actors express their feelings about the film. Nino Brown is such a memorable character and Wesley Snipes seems very upbeat in reminiscing about the film. This featurette is really amazing because they get inside of every major character involved in the film. They even discuss certain scenes. This is great.

NJC-A Hip Hop Classic
Fab Five, Nappy Roots, Truth Hurts, A DJ from Power 106, Ed Lover, Ice T, Warren G, and a few others speak about the film and the films soundtrack. Cassandra Mills-the soundtracks producer tells the story of the films soundtrack. She states this was the first soundtrack that featured rap, hip-hop and pop songs. She explained how Color Me Badd had a #1 song, the Christopher Williams song was doing it's thing on the pop charts and the Ice T song was thing on the rap chart. She states they had three hit songs from the soundtrack prior to the film even coming out.

Music Videos
Ice T-New Jack Hustler
Color Me Badd-I Wanna Sex You Up
Don't Wake Me (I'm Dreamin)-Christopher Williams

Two disc set also includes a feature title "Harlem World-A Walk Inside (Mario takes viewers on a tour of memorable locations seen in the film) and Director/Co-Star commentary by Mario Van Peebles.

Why I'm so honered cause his dad Melvin Van Peebles directed "Sweet Sweet Back Badasssss Song" the first black cinema movie. New Jack City has a drug lord name Nino Brown played by (Wesley Snipes) who he and his crew too over a apartment building which made them even richer. Ice T is a cop in this movie back which was a shock to see back then cause he not too long made a song called "Cop Killer" anyway back to the movie he has a lost cause crack Pooky played by (Chris Rock) who he shot at first cause he tried to stell his money then he became a junky them Ice T character "Scotty" got him off the streets into rehab Pooky wanted to pay him back by helping him take Nino down so his job was to see if he can get a job at working for Nino Brown under cover with wering a belt that has a hidden cam. Their are some problems with letting him take a job like that cause he has to sell drugs and the cops are afraid he might get back into taking drugs again same goes for Ninos employes they recoginze him from the past he use to be their best customer it won't do no good if he just eat their products.

This film has been mentioned in the same breath as so called "hood films" such as Clockers and Menace 2 Society, I had heard it was set in a NYCHA housing project and so I bought it partly for visual research purposes for an upcoming final year degree project which may or may not involve architectural renderings of a NYCHA housing project, but partly because I enjoyed other apparently similar films.

This film is absolute lightweight all the way. It may be "important", and back in '91 it may have been hardcore, gritty, convincing, etc. etc. but watching it in 2005 it packs a weak punch.

It is not set in a NYCHA project, and the street lifestyle that is tackled so superbly for example in Menace is never even approached here. This movie instead chooses to go the route of King of New York, but Wesley Snipes is no Frank White. New Jack was instead set around an apartment building called "The Carter", which were we not told it was a crackden looked like a pricey, well-kept appartment block that totally lacked any edge or atmosphere whatsoever.

The film utilised several times a helicopter fly-over of the area surrounding "The Carter", in much the same vein the beginning of Menace panned over Watts and Jordan Downs; but where Menace succeeded in capturing a palpable atmosphere of feral ghetto landscape and an implied simmering below the surface with its fly-over scene, New Jack's left you wondering why the film's director bothered setting the movie in such an unintimidating place, and then bothered to show it to you by means of a helicpter fly-over.

Snipes and his crew look like a wannabe Run DMC, never convincing, never gritty, none of the darker more subtle aspects of criminality of the nature apparently portrayed in this film are ever even brushed upon. Snipes' Toni Montana impressions made me cringe, however good they may have been. This film was not tuned in, it simply didn't appear to have its feet on the ground.

Ice T was plain annoying with his pseudo-racist, "street" policeman with the most annoying voice, accent and lines I have come across. He acted out every simple-minded stereotype of the character he was trying to portray, all the while smug and convinced of his own worth. Every scene with him in it annoyed me immensely.

The only characters who seemed to do a stand-up job were Chris Rock's crack-head, and Mario Van Peebles' detective.

New Jack is a lightweight crime drama that fails to deliver on most of its chosen frontiers, there are other films out there that tackle New Jack's chosen subjects in immeasurably superior ways.

we all know the late 80's early 90's was fill with bad hair does , crappy clothes and crazy dance craze, why am tellin you this??? well when i first saw New Jack City i wanted to be a bad guy talk about dumb & impressionable, well let's say i don't feel the same way now (thank god!!) This movie is really a star studded movie before many of the stars became bigger stars, i must say that Wesley Snipes was great!!!, Judd Nelson sucked in this movie, and as for his presence this movie lost one star in my rating, however Chris Rock as a crack head ha! ha! ha! well that was fun!!! and Ice-t weeell ummmh, seriously once you can look past some of the bad acting, this movie ain't all that bad, when i look at it now it surely brings back memories, ""look how far we come baaaaby" well buy this movie and form your own opinion it's defintely worth a try laterzzzz folks.

Sorry, but just the fact that they changed the view from the criminal to the police officer, it totally changes the theme of the movie and the way it develops itself. New Jack City was sure a movie that had an impact in the 90's.

This movie is a clear rip off of Scarface and The Godfather. In fact the story is essentially exactly the same as The Godfather with the Scarface coke empire thrown in. The only difference is that there is the cops view of the events that go down and of course the fact that all of the main characters save one are black. Despite the fact that this movie is a blatant rip off I did enjoy it mainly because of Wesley Snipes acting. Other than that its been done before and been done much better.

Hailed by movie critic, Roger Ebert, as one of the best gangster classics of all time alongside "The Godfather", and "Scarface", "New Jack City" is an instant and extroardinary classic. Though many movie critics in the past and now have failed to see the true art of this film, other movie critics have understood the film's powerful message about the crack epidemic that became rampant during the late 80's. In addition, this film not only struck a cord in Hollywood with it's shocking message, but helped to establish the careers of actors Ice-T and Wesley Snipes and definetly put successful black films on the map, which helped to usher in the new black film movement paving the way for other "hood" classics that would dominate the screen during the early 90's. Moreover, director, Mario Van Peebles, though never given any credit for his work, is an excellent filmmaker doing what he does best by displaying his excellent camera work while, at the same time, teaching the African-American youth the dangers of drugs and how it leads to a person's downfall. The message of this film was plain and simple: Crack can lead a person nowhere in life and can damage the lives of others. If we do not continue to fight the war on drugs, then drugs will continue to destroy our country. This message along with the film, itself, should deserve mention in any film that has a positive message, and "New Jack City" will always be an extroardinary gangster classic that will continue to teach people about the choices that we make and how it will determine whether or not we will reach our downfalls.

Ahh..... New Jack City, what a classic. The tale of a man who runs the streets of New York selling crack, the overly agressive cop who wants to kill him himself, and the funny and funny-looking crack addict turned good. Ice T plays a cop who wants to shut down Snipes' business and watch Snipes die with his own two eyes. The loving part of the movie includes Chris Rock as Pookie, the crack addict who decides he is done with crack tries to help the cops but ends up being killed. The action in this movie in unbelievable. Wesley Snipes and his crew are one of the meanest in film history ive seen. He makes Al Pacino and Robert De Niro look like pussies. This is definitely a must see and a must own.

WHen this movie initially came out, I reviewed it for the MIlwaukee Courier. During that time I was conerned about the fact that the movie glamorized the dope "game." Van Peebles appeared on televisoin shortly thereafter and claimed the movie was an anti dope film, claiming, "if you notice, everyone who gets associated with dope ends up dying." That was his excuse for taking all that time to come up with the idea that, "since we got new jack crime, we need some new jack cops." And who, pray tell, are these cops? Ice-T, later known as the writer of the song, "Cop Killer" - which he later backed down on and now plays a cop on TV's 'homicide'. Mario Van Peebles, whose role is so convoluted its tough to tell if he's an Uncle Tom or someone who really cares about his people; Judd Nelson who, even with a goatee, still comes off looking like a nerd; lovely Vanessa Williams (the brown skinned one, not the green eyed one that married Rick Fox) plays a DA who is out to "Bust" the Cash Money Brothers and of course Chris Rock, who played a bony, nervous nitwit crackhead who infiltrates the CMB (in other words, type casting). The movie shows hwo money is amde,but more ipmortantly, how money is SPENT. Women from all walks of life (including Michael Michel, a fine sister in serious need of a breast augmentation) who fall in love with dope dealers because they have cash. But the movie belongs to Wesley Snipes, who once again takes over, not only as a drug kingpin,but as an ice cold one at that. Snipes not only has a philosophy, but at the movie's end he stands up in court and tells it lke it is: he puts the FBI and the war on drugs on front street for claiming to be anti-drug but still siting back and letting drugs come into the country. We've heard it all before, but when Wesley says it, you have to believe that it has some credibility because, after all, this is an anti-drug movie, right? "New Jack City" inspired the creation of real ones, like the one in Racine, Wisconsin over on Jacato Drive. Some thugs actually felt they could take over entire apartment buildings and run drugs without the cops coming around. Sheer fantasy. What's next: Galactic Jack City, with thugs selling space crack out of a flying saucer? Sheesh! I gave the movie a 3 in 1992; I'm giving it a "1" now. See it and you can see how the real dope dealers have changed from back in the day.

A gritty, realistic portrayal of the crack scene in the early 90s. Wesley Snipes is absolutely brilliant as Nino Brown. To my mind, this is his best acting performance. It set the standard for Black gangsta movies. Although it paid homage to Scareface, New Jack is actually a superior movie with a better storyline.

Fool, this film be the bomb, and I don't mean it bombed. Few movies touch me, but in New Jack City, the message was loud and clear, 'Keep it real and don't get caught'. Nino Brown had it all, and I mean he ruled the school. The problem was he got greedy. He makes deals with undercover cops, he wants to take down the mob, and his gang is falling apart. Plus he drops a decent looking ho for a real skanky looking ho.

It funny to see the size of cell phones back then, but the hair styles were pretty ridiculous too. Ice T is no Slash, but he can wear a top hat in the rain just as easily. Judd Nelson has a race problem in this movie, He can't tell the difference between himself, a white cop, and Pookie, a black crackhead. He finally settle the matter buy proclaiming he is 'Poor White Trash Pookie'.

In the end though, the message is clear. "If you've lost everything, you might as well cut loose and run. You never know, the libraian you shot may have a son coming to take you down." Or another moral of the story is "Avoid crazy old men on the stairs when you leave the courtroom."

I know some people did not like this movie, but I loved it. The film had me hating some characters and loving others. Ice-T played his role well in this film. The scene that still gets me to this day is when he gets Pookie from that crack house. The other scene is when he is with the drug lord, and finds out HE is the man responsible for his mothers death. That scene was deep. The film has a good cast, Mario Van Peebles, Wesley Snipes, Bill Nunn, Allen Payne, Vanessa Williams, Micheal Michaels and some other folks. The film really hipped you to how bad the drug scene is in the inner city.

I like the pace at which the story in this movie was told. It's not blazing fast so you pick up on all the little things. The acting from all is done very well. Ice Tee is a beliable cop, I appericated how he wasn't shown as some perfect cop, but he wasn't bad either. He was human, which added to the realism. Westly Snipes delivers a stunning performance as Nino Brown. I think everyone should watch this movie and Sugar Hill back to back. Westly is great in both, and it's amazing how oppisite the drug king pin character he plays really are in those 2 movies. New Jack City is gritty and real. And much like Scarface, you'll be left with a feeling of just how crazy life can be.

Now I don't ignore the fact that at times this a serious and dark
movie with the junkie played by Chris Rock(believable and scary)
and other mentions of crack babys.But this movie is entertaining
the whole way through.I loved Judd Nelson and Ice-T was great and
Wesley Snipes was a modern day Tony Montana.Comparisons to Scar-
Face are made in reviews but they're really not that much alike
this is no 3 hour long epic about one man.It's about cops dedicatd to stoping the crack(cmb)gang and ridding the streets of
drugs.It's fun to watch the shoot-outs between cmb and the mob
also the cop's pull some dirty moves on cmb as well.Good movie
all around.Despite what people say this is not an anti-drug movie
but a basic action cop's and bad guys movie with the usual gung-
ho cops and ruthless ammoral bad guy all played well by the actors.I couldn't get enough.

I love hood movies and as far as acting, writing, characters and sheer believeability go, this movie ranks way below films such as Boyz n the Hood, Juice, Clockers, ect.

Besides Ice T's (Scotty) and Snipes (Nino), all the other characters seemed so false. Even though those are the two main characters, if all your other characters arent believeable, the whole movie falls apart. The chief of police is like someone out of a cartoon. Chris Rock (Pookie) isnt funny and does his part no justice. Mario Van Peebles is a joke

Apparently a drug syndicate is able to take over and entire apartment building in NYC...for years!! Its amazing isnt it. They can ride up in a drop top jeep and shoot people point blank in the head in broad daylight and not get caught. The story is just so hard to swallow.

Also the cinematography is really sub par. There is no artistry in any of the shots even in the dialogue. It also seems like the entire movie moves too fast for the events that are supposedly taking place. There are no subtle nuances at all in this film. I would say dont waste your time, the movie isnt really exciting at all, the performances are boring as is the plot. Go watch Juice.

If you liked Scarface, you'll probably like this movie too. It gives u a first person perspective of how the crack game works and the consequences of getting involved. BUY DIS FlICK!

of being angry at weak gang movies, like Belly, and state property, I realy didn't know what to expect when I saw this last year, when my brother brought it over. I was hoping it didn't turn out to be a horrible black crime movie, and tank God it wasn't. Wesley Snipes plays Neno Borwn, who's just Undeniebly one of the evilest characters in movie history. This guy doesnt' care who he sells dope to, kids, wemon, his boys, as long as he's sitting on a pile of money, and having the world in his hands. It also has Ice-T, who does real good in this this movie, so far his best performance, you got Allen Payne, playing Neno browns brother G-Money, and Chris Rock, in one of his early, less comidec films, as pookie, a crackhead. Well this movie does deliver some messages, and some good ol' shootouts. This and King of New York are my favorite black crime movies. They may not be another Scarface, but there the only black movies that can come close to it. So if you like Scarface, go check this out, and if you love Movies like Belly or State Property, this will make you forget about them, and throw em' in the garbage.

of being angry at weak gang movies, like Belly, and state property, I realy didn't know what to expect when I saw this last year, when my brother brought it over. I was hoping it didn't turn out to be a horrible black crime movie, and tank God it wasn't. Wesley Snipes plays Neno Borwn, who's just Undeniebly one of the evilest characters in movie history. This guy doesnt' care who he sells dope to, kids, wemon, his boys, as long as he's sitting on a pile of money, and having the world in his hands. It also has Ice-T, who does real good in this this movie, so far his best performance, you got Allen Payne, playing Neno browns brother G-Money, and Chris Rock, in one of his early, less comidec films, as pookie, a crackhead. Well this movie does deliver some messages, and some good ol' shootouts. This is my favorite black crime movie. This may not be another Scarface, but it's the only black movie that can come close to it. So if you like Scarface, go check this out, and if you love Movies like Belly or State Property, this will make you forget about them, and throw em' in the garbage.

ICE-T LAUNCHED HIS FILM CAREER WITH THIS MEMORABLE 1991 CULT CLASSIC. THIS MOVIE FOLLOWS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A DRUG KINGPIN NAMED NINO BROWN [WESLEY SNIPES. NINO THINKS HE'S UNTOUCHABLE BUT THREE STREET-SMART COPS ARE WORKING ON A BIG PLAN TO BRING NINO TO JUSTICE. THIS MOVIE IS SOMETIMES ACCUSED OF GLORIFYING DRUG DEALERS, BUT THAT'S NOT EVEN THE CASE. THIS MOVIE WAS MADE TO SHOW THE DANGERS OF BEING A DRUG DEALER AND IT SHOWS WHY DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL. THERE'S GREAT PERFORMANCES FROM EVERYBODY IN THE CAST. PEOPLE SHOULD REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO THIS FILM'S POWERFUL ANTI-MESSAGE. THIS MOVIE INSPIRED MANY IMITATIONS AND CLONES.

The story is not very unique - you have seen it before in "scar face" and you can clearly anticipate what's going to happen next. This is a ruthless movie of a small rookie's rise and fall. Nino makes it "big" by being more brutal then the other guys.... he has a group of followers who are loyal to him as long as he does not cross the line, but as always, success is blinding and Nino makes his mistakes (the moral lesson is as usual - if you are already a crook...don't indulge in the crime of vanity). We don't have Michelle Pfeifer in this movie (actually the woman characters are not very impressive) but we do have a group of beautiful afro-American actors led by the amazing Wesley snipes and Ice-T. Good music and a fast, cruel pace with the most powerful street characters.

New Jack City was released in 91 and went on to become a smash-hit at the box office. The film is basically the violent story of drug lord Nino Brown's rise and fall. Wesley Snipes is unbeleivable as Nino. His performance is charismatic and very convincing. Rapper Ice-T stars as the cop determined to bring Nino down. This was Ice-T's first starring role and he was great in his role. Ice gives the performance of his career. Infact the only thing that detracts from the movie is Judd Nelson's performance. I feel he was pretty wooden in his role as Ice's partner and his acting was quite inept. That doen't stop this film from being undoubtedly the best gang movie ever made. You have to see this film just to see how powerful it is. It will leave you with an amzed expression on your face. I recommend this film to anyone who wants to see a good, well-made film, or definitely to fans of Ice-T and Snipes.

Not a bad movie at all... Ice-T plays this role convincingly. Judd Nelson seems to be out of place, but Mario Van Peebles does a good job as well. Wesley Snipes is what pulls this movie together, however. His protrayal of Nino Brown is convincing. I think if Judd Nelson would've had a bigger role in this movie as being more than Ice-T's sidekick, this would be a 4 1/2 star movie.

There is only one force to be reckoned with in the city: Nino Brown, played brilliantly by Wesley Snipes. There are two cops hot on his trail, Nick Peretti and Scotty Appleton {played by Judd Nelson and rapper-turned-actor, Ice-T}. With pressure from the Govenor as well the streets, Stone {Melvin Van Peebles} gambles on Appleton and Peretti, two street-wise cops that are crazy enough to take the job, if they could just along with each other. Brown along with his brother, G-Money {Allen Payne} and his other ruthless co-hort, Duh Duh Man {Bill Nunn} have formed the CMB or "Cash Money Brothers", a ruthless, lucrative crack-cocaine empire that has the city on lockdown. (spoiler)Moral of the story: Crime doesn't pay.-- Be sure to look for cameo appearances by: Troop, LeVert, Keith Sweat, Guy, Public Enemy and Fab 5 Freddy. This movie also boasts a banging soundtrack, featuring "New Jack Hustler: Nino's Theme," performed by Ice-T, songs by Johnny Gill, Keith Sweat, Color Me Bad, Christopher Williams, etc. You have got to see this movie!!!