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Juice

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Really good
Review: Juice is the story of the lives of 4 freinds lives after an armed robbery.The main characters name is Q.He has 4 freinds named Bishop, Steel, and Raheem.Bishop is the sort of risk taker of the group.Steel is the fat homeboy that likes to have fun.And Raheem is the leader of the group.They spend their days trying to earn Juice wich means power and respect in the hood.One day Q and his freinds find out one of their freinds died triyng to rob a bar.Then Bishpop gets mad because they were at the bar when that happened and they were'nt their to help him out.The next day he decides that a good way to get Juice is to rob the local store the following week.But Q who wants to get his Juice wants to earn it by becoming a DJ.And the night Bishop wants to rob the store is the night of a DJ contest that he has entered.But he does'nt want to punk out on his freinds, so he agrees to go with Bisop.But then the robbery goes bad because Bishop shoots the owner of the store, and kills him.Later him and Raheem have a fight over the gun and he kills Raheem in front of Q and Steel.When they all get questioned about Raheem,Q knows that he can't rat on Bishop because he was there when they robbed the store.Bishop says that they were at the club when the store was robbed and says that he thinks that a puerto rican gang member that he hates killed Raheem.After that Bishop still tries to act like he is still cool with Q and Steel.When the gang member is questioned about the murder, he has a fight with Bishop, and Bishop shoots and kills him.Then later he forces Steel to go with him to the local Pool Hall.Steel panics and calls Q at his girlfreinds house.Then Bishop takes Steel to the back of the Pool Hall and shoots him but he does'nt kill him.Then he starts telling everyone that Q is the one who is killing everyone.But then Steel tells Q's girlfreind, who works at the hospital that Bishop is the that is killing everyone.Then Q tells the owner of the Pool Hall to tell Bishop that he wants to meet him later that night.when Bishop shows up he tries to kill Q and chases him to a party. When Q knocks the gun away from Bishop he chases him to the rooftop where they a big fistfight.Qknocks Bishop off the roof and Bishop tells Q not to let him fall, but he does anyway.When Q leaves the roof, one of his freinds tells him that he has the juice now.But Q shakes his head and then the movie ends.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: good movie
Review: Juice is one of those rare movies that I could watch over and over for a while and not be bored. The two main characters Q(Omar Epps) and Bishop(the late 2Pac) put on great performances in this movie. The story goes like this. There was a four man group. There was bishop, Q, steel, and Rahim. Q has the dream of becoming a big time DJ, Bishop wants respect, steel wants to have fun, and Rahim is the leader and tries to deal with the issues of losing his girlfriend who is the mother of his child.
Bishop was alaways the trouble-maker of the group as he gets into fights with a puerto rican group and is constantly running from the law. Everything is cool within the group until a friend that they knew got killed in his attempted robbery. Bishop really starts to go crazy as he make the plan to rob this store of the guy he hates. Q didn't want anything to do with it because of the fact that he entered into a DJ contest and was out to prove that he is the cream of the crop. Bishop gets a gun and appears to be memerized with it and ends up ruining his life more than he ever imagined. They agree to do the robbery in the part where Q didn't have to perform. The event ended up making changes for the whole group and Bishop loses control and ends up killing the owner of the store and then starts a shooting spree. One by one he mows down his group. First, he kills Rahim, shoots Steel but never dies (or so we believe) and is out to get Q. Q tries to snap some sense into Bishop but in the end Bishop finds out the hard way that the path he choose was the wrong one. In the end Q is the last man standing of the group and does eventually go on to pursuit his DJ career. The movie is not oscar material, but it was a good written script. I'd recommend it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: well paced drama cant give it 3 1/2 stars so i give it 3
Review: One thing i hope know you guys might have picked up on was at the end when bishop was afraid to die and was yelling at Q to not let go of him. Going against what Bishop had said previously about goin out in a blaze of glory.I think the story was about Bishop who was trying too hard to get respect by being harder then he really was. Q knew this and obviously knew a different side to Bishop which was why he was trying to squash the beef when he threw his gun away. Bishop however wouldnt realise this untill the end. Its a great story which i think could have been told better instead of portraying Bishop as a out of control lunatic, they could hav given us more detail as to why Bishop was so unforgiving. He was missing the human side that we all know Tupac Shakur possessed which is what separates the two.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: STRONG ACTING DEBUT FOR 2PAC
Review: THIS 1992 FILM IS ABOUT FOUR TEENAGE FRIENDS WHO COMMIT A STORE ROBBERY AND HOW IT CHANGED ALL THEIR LIVES. STRONG DEBUT FOR 2PAC AS THE THUGGED OUT BISHOP. 2PAC REALLY MADE A NAME FOR HIMSELF IN THIS MOVIE AND NONE OF THE OTHER MOVIES HE APPEARED IN TOPS THIS ONE. THIS FILM SHOWS THAT CRIME IS NEVER THE ANSWER. EVERYBODY IN THE CAST TURNED IN GREAT PERFORMANCES. THIS MOVIE IS UP THERE WITH ''BOYZ N THE HOOD''. IT'S TOO BAD I CAN'T SAY THE SAME FOR A LOTTA HOOD MOVIES THAT'VE COME AFTER THIS AND ''MENACE II SOCIETY''. IF YOU LIKED ''BOYZ N THE HOOD'' OR EVEN ''COLORS'', YOU SHOULD LOVE JUICE. EVERY ONE WHO COLLECTS HOOD MOVIES SHOULD HAVE THIS ONE AT THE TOP OF THEIR LIST.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Review of "Juice"
Review: JUICE is far from being a masterpiece. In fact, at times, it is pretty poorly-written and seems to go nowhere.

What makes this film so powerful is one thing. The screen debut of Tupac Shakur as the homicidal Bishop. Shakur keeps this film from being a total mess. He turns an otherwise dismal film into a very entertaining one.

His performance is so dynamic, in fact, that I often find myself fast-forwarding through scenes that don't involve him. Epps as the lead, "Q", puts in a decent performance but the romantic subplot goes nowhere and really adds nothing to the film.

All in all, JUICE, is a cult favorite and deserves its status, if simply for its soundtrack and the Tupac Shakur involvment.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: You got that much juice?
Review: A very good movie, but it's just strange.

Quincy(aka Q):He is a local Dj that makes mix tapes for money. When additions for a dj contest, he makes it to the contest. But after his superb performance at the contest, he and his friends decide to do something that will change/End their lives forever.

Bishop:Tupac's debut. Bishop is a tee, that thinks he has all the juice in the world. He only does that in fron of his friends, because someone else would probobly whack him. When they decide, life is bad, and decide to rob a store, Bishop goes from, your best friend, to your worst enemy.

Steel:Fat dude, and the dude that always get's picked on. He's good at videogames, and he really doesn't like fights or guns. But he gets exposed to the violent world after the rob a store.

Rahiem:He's pretty strong, and he always help Bishop, when he's being messed with by Radimas. Rahiem is the kind that trys to keep a positive input in the movie, but his mind changes, when he trys to rob a store with his other friends.

Radimas:Bishop's worst enemy. He always picks on Bishop when he has nothing to do. But when he messes with him after the incident with the store, boy, he wished, he never even spoke to him.

This movie is all about power and respect. But how Bishop becomes mr buddy-buddy, to I wan't to kill everyone is way beyond me. I mean, unless you have problems, or you a completly twisted phsyco, how can that possibly happen. Well, it's still is a positve movie, and if you like Tupac's acting, or a good black movie, go pick this up.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Ok.
Review: The movie was okay the only person in this movie worth seeing was Tupac himself. Other then that its pretty boring and short. So far the only movie worth seeing for this genre is Menace To Society.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Solely notable for Tupac's performance
Review: The film is a rather routine teen-crime drama highlighted by an impressive turn by rapper/actor the late Tupac Shukar.

Queen Latifah makes a cameo appearance, looking noticeably different than she looks now.

Well, the film was made over a decade ago.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Good Movie!!!
Review: I think Tupac did an excellent job in this movie and that this really started his acting career and the same goes for Omar Epps. They did a really good job in this movie.

This movie is so classic...I think everybody has seen it...it's like if you haven't seen it then....where have you been seriously.

It's plot is awesome and it never bores. It shows a really good example of how people live in the streets(not bums). I recommend that you get this movie on DVD if at all possible...if not then get this VHS version because it's a classic and you have to have it....Peace out folks!!!!!

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: stupid movie
Review: This movie was stupid. Plain stupid. No depth to anything. Just plain stupid.


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