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Hot Boyz

Hot Boyz

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: A third-rate "Menace to Society"
Review: A boy (played by Silkk Shocker), with a strong sense of justice, fails to save his beautiful girlfriend from being wrongfully imprisoned for a murder she had no part in. Instead, he becomes a pawn in a lethal game between a tough cop (Gary Busey) and a sinister underworld figure named Saint. Eventually, when his girlfriend is beaten to death within the walls of the jail and miscarries with their baby, he loses all faith in justice and enters the drug business and swiftly acquires the credentials of a certified gangster, before his own downfall. Hasn't this been done before and better, as in the pictures of Mario van Peebles or the Hughes Brothers? Unfortunately, there have been just as many films out of the 'hood as there have been out of Vietnam, so hopefully filmmakers should learn pretty soon to stop churning out the repetitive cut-and-dried stuff. "Hoy Boyz" at least has the benefit of a few strong moments, a well-known cast (including Snoop Dogg and Gary Busey -- possibly the most versatile American actor ever) but it degenerates in the last minutes to becoming a vehicle for sanctimonious moralising -- "the good life", and so forth.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: POSSIBLY THE BEST OF THE NO LIMIT MOVIES
Review: A YOUNG MAN [SILKK THE SHOCKER] WANTS TO BE A RAPPER AND WANTS TO ENJOY LIFE WITH HIS GIRLFRIEND. BUT, SHE GETS FRAMED FOR A MURDER AND HE GOES UNDERCOVER TO FIND THE REAL KILLER SO HE CAN CLEAR HIS GIRLFRIEND'S NAME. AS ALWAYS, THE ACTING IS NOT ALL THAT GREAT, BUT IT IS FUN TO WATCH. GARY BUSEY, WHO OBVIOUSLY DOES THE BEST ACTING JOB IN THIS WHOLE MOVIE, IS GREAT AS THE CORRUPT COP WHO GIVES HIM THE JOB TO GO UNDERCOVER. THE CAST IS FILLED WITH NO LIMIT RAPPERS, SUCH AS MYSTIKAL, SNOOP DOGG, MASTER P, C-MURDER, AND MUCH MORE. VERY GOOD FOR A NO LIMIT MOVIE, REALLY SUPRISED ME.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: There's nothing hot about this movie
Review: Except most def for the girlfriend (Shireen Crutchfield a 10+) If you like a fine woman then rent this movie if you want a good movie rent something else. In others its in the same category as a Mario Van Pepples movie. nuf said huh

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Hot Boyz
Review: Hot Boyz is a Silk The Shocker classic, it's the best movie Master P has directed.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: GARBAGE!
Review: I can't believe that they had enough nerve to make this movie. Complete trash! I wouldn't watch this movie again if they paid me.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Much better than I expected, the best NO LIMIT film
Review: I was surprised when I saw this movie, I bought a used copy really cheap and the last movie I seen with Snoop Dogg at the time was URBAN MENACE which I rented and was hugely dissapointed but this was an actual movie and everybody seems to do there best to make sure that it won't turn up on the same page as I GOT THE HOOK UP which was a really bad No Limit Film...

The movie is made with cheap camera systems so the camera work might not be Hollywood-class, but the movie itself is very entertaining and SILKK THE SHOCKER is prob. the best actor in the NO LIMIT family...

A warning though to the people who wants to see it only becouse of SNOOP DOGG, his screentime is about the time that METHOD MAN had in belly and NAS had in TICKER so u can't really be thinking that I wanna watch it becouse Snoop is in it cuz he's not in it too much... However the movie is very entertaining (Not as good as Boyz N The Hood or Menace II Society but which films are?)

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I Watched This On BET One Night And Despite All The Language I Really Liked It. It Was Very Violent But Some Of It Was Touching Like The Ending. This Is Up There With 8 Mile On My Favorites List. It Is Bassically Made For TV But So What Who Cares Because If It's Good It Shouldn't Be Judged.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: This video is allight but not all that
Review: If you like No Limit then you'll probably enjoy this video. But if you don't like No Limit or no longer like No Limit don't get this.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: HOT BOYZ Review
Review: In the glory days of No Limit's rap franchise, Master P took "overexposure" to glorious new heights with this very stupid "strugglin' in the hood" tale.

Silk The Shocker (P's younger brother) is Kool, a self-proclaimed thug who turns to a life of crime when his girlfriend gets framed for a crime after witnessing a murder. What? Anyways, the story flip-flops all over the place, taking time to throw in every major cliche possible. Kool is an aspiring rapper who also practices martial arts and specializes in car chases. He tries to make a deal with Gary Busey's crooked cop but it doesn't work to his advantage.

After his girlfriend is murdered, and his subsquent careers as a martial artist, rapper, basketball player, and NASCAR driver fail, Kool joins up with a crew featuring No Limit rappers, Snoop Dogg, Mystikal, C-Murder, and comedian Anthony "A.J." Johnson. The crew nicknamed the "Hot Boyz" is a gang that murders major drug dealers in an attempt to take the drug game for themselves. Well, of course.

Once you hear the cheesy opening monolouge from Master P's overacting little bro, you know what you're getting into with this one. Master P's over-contrived script takes "suspension of disbelief" to brave new heights. In particular, many of the scenes involving Gary Busey's cop character make no sense. In one scene, Kool agrees to set up a major drug dealer played by veteran actor Clifton Powell. Before the situation unfolds, Busey murders a man in cold blood and threatens to blame it on Kool if he doesn't help him out. The motivation for any cop, no matter how crooked he is, to blackmail someone who has already agreed to help him out is non-existent. But wait it gets worse. After deciding to take on a life of crime, gangster Kool shows up at Busey's house and robs him of his entire gun collection. That's right. A police informant shows up at a cop's house with a pistol and robs in the middle of the day. There's a believable scenerio. Of course, at the end of the day, the drug-dealing gangster leaves a trail of dead bodies including rival drug dealers and decorated police officers but due to him "having a good lawyer", he doesn't end up in prison.

Master P the screenwriter is certainly trying hard but he ends up with Ed Wood results. This whole story is just awful. While it tries to play itself in the same veign as classic urban films such as BOYZ N THE HOOD and MENACE II SOCIETY, it could not be any more of a failure. Where those films showed a realistic portrait of "black America", this one is just going out of its way to take on every element of the action genre. Kool's outlaw attitude has no moral or truly negative outcome. He is just the ultimate black action cliche. "Hot Boyz" is certainly never boring but it seems to blast its way into a series of nonsensical situations before ending more ridicilously than it started.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: NO NO NO ABSOULTELY NOT! 0!0!0! ZERO!
Review: NO NO NO NO NO. A BIG FAT 0. WHY MUST BLACKS ALWAYS BE PROTRAYED AS GANGSTAS AND EVERYTHING ELSE BAD. HERES THE STORY LINE: YEA I STARTS OFF GOOD. BUT THEN LATER TURNS INTO A VERY PREDICTIBLE AND POSSIBLY(FOR SURE ONE OF THE) WORST MOVIES EVER DONE. ITS ABOUT A GUY THAT HAS BIG DREAMS AND HAS A GIRLFRIEND THAT HE LOVES. THEN SHE IS JAILED FOR A MURDER SHE DID NOT DO(HE JUST DIED IN HERE ARMS). AND HE TRIES TO GET HERE OUT BY PROVING HER INNOCENCE.. WHILE IN PRISON SHE'S BEATEN TO DEATH BY A COP(YES THIS DOES HAPPEN SOMETIMES IN REAL LIFE, AND YES SOMETIME FOR ABSOLUTELY NO REASON WHATSOEVER, AND NO ITS NOT ALWAYS WHITE COPS, COPS OF OTHER ETHNICITIES DO THIS AS WELL, SO I DO AGREE THAT THEY SHOULD JUST USE WHITE COPS AS THE WORST COPS). AFTER THIS HE BECOMES A GANGSTA FOR REVENGE. THIS MOVIE WAS TERRIBLE. THE BEST PART WAS THE END. MASTER P. PLEASE WRITE A MOVIE THAT DOESNT PROTRAY PEOPLE LIVING IN THE GHETTO AS GANGSTAS. IF U WANT TO SEE A GOOD MOVIE THAT TAKES PLACE IN A GHETTO THEN CHECK OUT "OUR SONG" PEACE.


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