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Summary: One of the most powerful movies of all time
Review: This movie has the power to completely bowl me over every single time I see it.
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Summary: an increadible powerful movie!
Review: This movie started all of the rap and black ganster movies.It shows how the blacks are raised in america and when there life gets out of control and they join gangs and end up dead or in jail.I loved the endig of this movie where doo boy(ice cube) and his friends seek revenge on the people who shot his brother.at moments of the movie its very depressing but also hearwarming.
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Summary: A incredible movie.
Review: After seeing this movie, my best friends and I were speechless! There was so much to think about. None of us could comprehend the worries and issues that Tre and his friends dealt with on a daily basis. I have a hard time watching this movie now because of the way it tears at your heart! Even now, after seeing it a few times, I still sit for hours quietly, thinking it over and over. Singleton did an incredible job, and in my opinion, deserved the Oscar. In total disagreement with one of the other respondents, I did not like this movie for the rap music and the cool cars! I liked it for its great story and how "deep" (to borrow a line from Ricky) it was!
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Summary: This movie is very remarkable.
Review: Young Trey was having a rough time in school. Every day one of his teachers would call his mother ,Trey had signed A contract with his mother stating if he had not got it together (meaning any teachers calling, grades,etc..) he would go live with his father. A few days later Trey went to live with his father to learn how to become A man. Years later manhood had come,friends Dough Boy and Ricky(Brothers)who were his best friends since childhood were still there in adulthood, ricky was shot while making A run for the mother of his child, and died. Dough Boy dies at the end of the movie Trey goes on to college.
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Summary: Most Gripping "Hood" movie ever made!
Review: Once you start watching this movie you won't be able to leave you seat. The actors and plot seem so real. You laugh, you cry and you get angry. It has all the right stuff to make you appreciate the movie and life. One of my favorite movies of all times!
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Summary: This is the best movie I have ever seen
Review: This movie is so cool, I love rap music so i found this movie to be the best i have ever seen. I liked the cars, and the way the actors showed life on the streets in a real way.
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Summary: A real movie about real life in the hood.
Review: This movie will become a classic of african americans. It will be the basis for movies to come.
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Summary: GREAT
Review: This is my all time favorite movie. Very powerful story of the living that goes on in the neglected parts of society.
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Summary: Straight Up like a 504 in a 203 zone
Review: Boyz N the Hood, is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen. It's real, and it gives the viewer a perspective of gang life. This movie is like Silkk kickin it in a 912 area. Silkk tha Shocker is in tha house. He's chillen wit hiz boyz O'Dell, C Murder, Mystikal, Big Ed, and Kane. Buy this movie it's nice.~Jack Marlow aka Silkk the Shocker and his crew
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Summary: How to Survive in South Central.
Review: South Central L.A.: Where murder rates are five times the nationwide average, or in absolute figures, double the entire U.S.'s death rate for breast cancer (L.A. Times, January 1, 2004.) Where "I'll have my brother shoot you" isn't just an empty threat, and guns are passed from one sibling to another when an older brother goes away to "do time." Where owning a gun is a means of self-protection even for those who've always stayed clear of gangs. Where "where ya' from?" is an inquiry about gang membership, not geographic origin, and wearing the wrong colors can cause you to be "hit up;" resulting in violence, and more violence by way of retaliation. Where over the past 15 years the LAPD has accumulated a backlog of 4,400 unsolved homicides - roughly 3/4 of the city's total - because, as kids learn early, a bullet doesn't come with a name attached; and those who know the killer generally stay mum, either fearing reprisal or preferring to take care of their own, rather than leave justice to a police and a court system they've learned to mistrust anyway. And where crimes like burglary only merit police attention if something actually was stolen, and are quickly sidelined upon the officers' summons to another murder scene. South Central L.A. is the home of Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and his friends, "Doughboy" and Ricky Baker (Ice Cube and Morris Chestnut). We first meet them at age ten, when Tre's mother (Angela Bassett) sends him to live with his father Jason, a/k/a "Furious" (Laurence Fishburne), who seems better equipped to raise a son in a neighborhood like this. When we see them again they're seventeen, Tre and Ricky about to graduate from high school, while Doughboy has already graduated - from shoplifting to guns and small-time drug deals. And while Furious guides Tre towards moral choices, responsibility and (self-)respect, Doughboy and Ricky are raised by a mother who lacks the wherewithal to steer them out of the ghetto. Yet, Ricky in particular is naively, fiercely resolved to make it out of there; with a football scholarship (provided his SAT scores are high enough) or if that fails, by joining the army. And in a poignant, spot-on conclusion it is ultimately Ricky who forces Tre and Doughboy to choose their own paths in life, to either be drawn into the ghetto's spiral of violence, or conquer their inner demons and extricate themselves from that vicious circle. Upon this movie's 1991 release, several Los Angeles cinemas either refused to show it at all or hired extra security guards: That big, in a city that had recently seen the Rodney King beating, was about to be rocked by the Christopher Commission's scathing indictment of its police department, and was gearing up to the riots that would ravage its inner city the following spring, were fears of the reaction to John Singleton's partly autobiographical film. Yet, while "Boyz N the Hood" paints a starkly accurate picture of inner city life's daily realities, it in no way encourages violence - much to the contrary. That it's told from a profoundly "black" perspective is a given; and with that come charges that those of us with a more fortunate childhood often dismiss as the chip on many black people's shoulders (e.g. the notion that drugs, liquor and guns in the ghetto are tacitly encouraged by society's white-dominated ruling circles to keep inner-city minorities subdued). But while neither such charges nor their "white" response are the be-all and end-all of the problem, there is no question that drugs, alcoholism and guns are major issues in the 'hood, as are teen pregnancies and unemployment; and Singleton intelligently weaves all of these elements into a compelling picture. Equally well-deserved as the praise for Singleton, who garnered Best Director and Best Screenplay Oscar nominations and several other distinctions, are the kudos to the movie's outstanding actors. Then-23-year-old Cuba Gooding Jr. came practically out of nowhere to give a fully accomplished, emphatic portrayal as Tre, caught between the lessons of ghetto life and those of his father. (Although this wasn't his first movie, he had never before appeared in a remotely as prominent role.) Morris Chestnut's naively determined football-hero-to-be Ricky is similarly compelling; and Laurence Fishburne noticeably didn't have to reach far for his "Furious" Styles: While based on Singleton's father, the role was created specifically with him in mind. So, reportedly, was Ice Cube's Doughboy; and he, too, is a perfect match, giving the teenage trio's most troubled member a depth clearly informed by his own South Central boyhood (although despite his songs' inflammatory lyrics, he himself stayed clear of gangs). Angela Bassett finally is the perfect foil for the movie's male characters, exemplifying a woman who through hard work gets as far out of the ghetto as conceivable and unlike her ex-husband doesn't avoid the moneyed upper-crust, but doesn't forget her origins, either (and is still perfectly capable of talking tough when challenged). The movie's last words are Ice Cube's, both spoken as Doughboy and rapped in "How to Survive in South Central," underlying the closing credits. "Either they don't know, don't show or don't care what's going on [here]," Doughboy comments on a TV program about exotic faraway places he's seen shortly after experiencing the kind of violence that he knows will haunt him forever. And in his rap song, sarcastically premised on a guided tour to the "concrete Vietnam" South Central L.A. ("Have you witnessed a drive-by? Okay, make sure you have your camcorder ready!"), Ice Cube warns: "Rule number one: get yourself a gun ... 'cause jackers ... love to start [things]. Now, if you're white you can trust the police; but if you're black they ain't nothin but beasts. ... So don't take your life for granted, 'cause it's the craziest place on the planet ... This is Los Angeles." - "Boyz N the Hood" was released 13 years ago. It is as topical as ever.
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