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Actors: Wesley Snipes, Ice-T, Chris Rock, Mario Van Peebles, Judd Nelson, Allen Payne, Vanessa Williams
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about New Jack City |
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In the New York City of the early '90s, crack kingpin Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) takes over a housing project and transforms it into a fortress-like crack house, he and his gang, the Cash Money Brothers, ply their trade with total impunity, killing all who oppose them.
Lieutenant Stone (Mario Van Peebles) of the NYPD decides that Nino and his brother Gee Money (Allen Payne) need to go, so he recruits Scotty Appleton (Ice-T) and Nick Peretti (Judd Nelson), two street cops serving suspensions, to form a task force that can take the CMB syndicate down for good.
With the help of a recovering addict (Chris Rock) that he saved from a life of crime, Scotty plants a mole within Nino's crack factory, assumes the role of a potential customer for Nino's wares, and prepares to bring down the operation from within, but he and Nick are about to find that they are seriously underestimating the drug lord and his men.
--James Craver, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of New Jack City |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 50%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Criminal enemy is...
- drug dealers
If this is a criminal POV story...
- drug dealers dealing drugs
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- longhair/girliemon (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- criminal
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- muscular (man)
unclothed?
- chest
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- New York
Misc setting
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
- touching of personal anatomy
- licking
- seeing breasts
- seeing nude female butt
- seeing nude male butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- A lot of foul language
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Rap/hip-hop
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