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SOURCE-Warner Brothers Blu Ray
For a film that had a pretty big impact when it came out New Jack City feels a bit forgotten. Which is odd to me. Opening night we were there to see it. And the asshole at the box office refuses to sell us tickets. After years of never being carded at that theater this time it happened. We were back the next night with a buddy of mine who was 17 at the time. He claimed to be our Uncle and we got in.
Take the blaxploitation films of the 70s,majorly increase the budget and add a cast full of soon to be big stars and you got New Jack City. Wesley Snipes is Nino Brown who at the start of the film is a low level drug dealer on the rise. With the crack explosion his business is booming.
On the other side we got Ice T as an undercover cop forced to team up with Judd Nelson. They end up using a reformed crackhead,Chris Rock,to infiltrate Nino's big crack lab.
Real quick HOW THE HELL DIDNT Chris Rock at least get nominated for his role as Pookie the Crackhead?
Pookie gets back on the pipe,ends up getting busted at the lab with a wire on him and is killed. We get a big action sequence of the cops raiding the projects this den is in. Which are wired to explode. And in a scene that feels a bit like the toilet explosion scene in Lethal Weapon 2,Ice T and Judd argue over what wire to pull on the bomb.
Now this is the first time I've watched this on Blu ray. Had the DVD for years,before that had it taped off HBO. And until this viewing the films lower budget never really was that obvious. Now some of the outdoors scenes it shows. You can tell they had to use the natural light whiich makes it look odd when you are use to how most stuff is filmed.
One of those films I go back and re-watch every few years. And each time I noticed something or someone I didn't last viewing.
New Jack City gets a A+
