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Summary: I LIKE IT MOST BECAUSE DMX IS IN THERE.
Review: MY DOG DMX RAN THAT MOVIE BUT IF HE WAS NOT IN THAT MOVIE THAN IT WILL BE WACK MOS DEFF HE MADE THAT MOVIE HIM IN METH.
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Summary: SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL.
Review: This film turned me on to Rap music. I didn't believe it possible, but it did. Hyper-kinetic visual and quickly paced story telling, make for one excellent ride. After merely seeing the trailer for this film, I knew this must be greatness. The original score for this film is intensely mood-setting as well. Every shot was destined to entertain and tease the audience, already waiting for more splendor. If you are a fan of Luc Besson films, such as "La Femme Nkita" and "the Professional" you'll love this Hype Williams masterpiece. It's about time the torch is carried once again, making violience a beautiful aesthetic. Pick up, plug in and enjoy visceral entertainment at it's finest . . . and you can say I told you so.
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Summary: URBAN CITY "GREATNESS"
Review: The movie was great i thought. Hype williams did a great job on his directorial debut, considering the budget he had to work with. The casting also great who better to play the rolls. Overall excellent movie, if you didn't see it you need to. Kionna from Bklyn
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Summary: This Is Pretty Good
Review: Some acting's bad, but besides that "Belly" is an everyday crime film, only with alot of style and alot of truthfulness. DMX and Nas star as Tommy and Sincere(a modern day Butch and Sundance as Sincere puts it). They are thugs who rob night clubs. Then Tommy finds out about this new kind of drug, hooks up with his Jamaican druglord friend Lennox(one of the coolest performances), and builds an empire in Nebraska. Everything's cool until Knowledge(rapper Power) gets locked up and starts screwing Tommy's business up. He recruits Shameek(Method Man) to hunt them down and kill them. At the same time, Sincere starts to reconsider his lifestyle. This isn't the greatest crime drama ever, but it is cool. DMX gives an outstanding performance. Nas' Sincere seemed a little dreamy at times, but his role still works. T-Boz outacts Nas because of the scene when Method Man breaks into her house and she freaks him out when she pulls a gun on him. Method Man gives an alright performance, but his role was too small. Taral Hicks plays Tommy's girl Kiesha, who in the end symbolizes woman power as she fights off Method Man. As for the movie, there are alot of memorable scenes, the most being the opening nightclub robbery. Neon lights, glowing eyes, and quick getaways. This is probably the biggest Hip-Hop cult movie. For these being debut actors and a debut movie director, this movie's amazing. The best is that most of the same things that we found wrong with this film, Hype(the director) found himself. It would've been better if it hadn't been edited so much(Hype says in the commentary that the movie was like 3 hours originally). The last stand of Lennox is a little like the last stand of Tony Montana in Scarface, but it is more realistic and stylish. Anyways, good performances, great directing, awesome cult classic. Cop this! Was this review helpful to you?
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Summary: "THAT'S YA' MAN"!!!!!!!!!
Review: I LOVED BELLY,WHEN IT FIRST CAME OUT.!!! I LIKE MOVIES THAT HAVE A FAST TAKEOFF... THIS MOVIE IS IN MY TOP TEN!!IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THIS MOVIE,THEN YOU AINT NO GANGSTA! IT HAS EVERYTHING! SOFT PORN,PRETTY B****'S,FINE A** N****'S,ACTION,AND DRUGS!!!!! GO COP THIS FOR THE COLLECTION.
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Summary: changes
Review: This movie is gangsta, dmx and nas are ill together. One (nas) is leanin over to change more then the other (dmx). The movie was a little hard to follow if your not familar with people from the gutter and what they do to survive. I like the fact that nas made it out of his struggles he's a smart man even smarter in hip hop. The ending is kind of left up to you, the only way to explain it is to go see it. It's worth buying...
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Summary: This is a good movie...
Review: 2 things I will gove the people who don't like the movie is Nas and scattered plot....
Nas isn't a good actor, I didn't really feel is performance. He seemed a little too sluggish/apathetic toward his character and though that might be how he is in real life it really didnt do much for the movie.
The scenes go from here to there without much explanation. You really got to watch it more than once. If you aren't braindead you can capture what is going on. But it does confuse a little bit your first time...
Other than thoose two arguments this movie is exeptional. DMX was fantastic. I thought method man was great in it. Some of the characters are really cool because they are unordinary.
The special edition part is pretty much retareded. It's really not that special.
But belly is a good movie! My fav.s include "Juice", and "Bullet" and I recommend these movies if you like belly. Peace.
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Summary: This Is A Gangsta Flick
Review: "Belly" is quite simply a great crime film that's inspired many rappers to begin to act. The almost all Hip-Hop cast(including DMX, Nas, Power, T-Boz, and Method Man) are surprisingly good in their performances, especially DMX as Tommy. X plays the dark character better than anyone could. It's obvious that Nas should stick to rapping, but he doesn't do too bad on screen. Method Man is very surprising as Shameek, a thug who's hired by Knowledge(Power) to go after Tommy. Meth, who usually acts in comedy's, is surprisingly convincing as a pipsqueek sort of guy. An almost unrecognizable Tyrin Turner(Caine from "Menace II Society") makes a cameo as Rico, a local Nebraska druglord.
Basically, this film is an expose of the drug life. It goes around the world, from Jamaica to Nebraska, and the characters are diverse and true to life.
The only problem is that the film was horribly edited. Hype even complained that his film was ruined by the editing in his commentary, stating the film was originally 3 hours.
But all that aside, "Belly" is a great flick. I would probably put it in the top 20 list of gangsta flicks. It has great action, drama, and even a little comedy. It's also very stylish and is shot very smoothly, especially the awesome opening scene, full of green lights and gunfights(LOL). In the end, you feel like you've learned a lot more after seeing this.
THIS IS TRULY ONE OF THE GREATEST DRUG TALES I'VE EVER SEEN ON FILM.
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Summary: Belly of the beast
Review: Belly is my favorite movie due to one scene: the scene when a group of men dressed in all black with automatics and beamers run into Lennox's {played by Louie Rankin} (the Jamaican druglord who is Tommy's connection) mansion and tries to kill him; drunk and high, he manages to kill them all with an assault rifle (chrome AK-47) by dodging the beamers and hiding behind walls, but it really gets good when he is lying on the floor killing the surrounding intruders but gets kill by a masked woman who jumps on his back and slices his throat "she must be a fan of SOULJA SLIM" that is the best scene I ever seen in a movie, although the copied SCARFACE's last scene
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Summary: Watch this movie...
Review: First of all, anyone that complains about the lighting in this movie has been brainwashed with too many theater realses. It's people like those that make Producers want to walk on the set and pull the creative control away from the Director and Cinematographer, doing this to try to protect an investment made by the production company. Do Kubrick's movies always move at desired speed? No. If you understood anything about movies besides knowledge gained by watching countless numbers of horrible movies, being the actual mechanics and sub-text going on with lighting, sound design, and editing within this movie, you'd want to watch it a few more times just to focus on one part of the movie with each viewing. I'd recommend this to anyone. You don't need to know the slang to understand the movie either, although it would help. It's a hero's jounrey completely nainling a new form youth rebelion. - WATCH IT
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