Clockers

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Summary: Le's secdond best flick
Review: spike lee ca make up peopole that r real and who u jeust eanat to watch fpr the hole flivck. he knowmns show to make great flicks. and this oen f=one of those fkinds fof flivckc. very good actsing by delroy limbo and mikfeih phiefer. spike lee should of gottze an awrad for his driectoing. a move everyone is goona wannea wtach

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Summary: One of Spike Lee's Better Joints!!
Review: Spike Lee gives the viewer to this film a vision that many black youths from the projects in Brooklyn and other impoverished areas already know. They have no hope and no drive to improve their livelihood even if they try to. Spike does give his audience the chance to say, "what can I do to stop it?" Though it could have done better without the off-color humor, the peformances of Harvey Keitel and newcomer Mehki Pfifer sets the tone and level of the movie. This not for the faint of heart with all the violent imagery. It's a powerful film that I recommend fully.

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Summary: Brilliant, jarring. . .
Review: Spike Lee has proven through the years to be a director of formidable talent, but not until now has he managed to tone down his showy antics and concentrate on directing in a manner that is best suited to the story he is telling. CLOCKERS is as brilliantly done as TAXI DRIVER, MIDNIGHT COWBOY or any gritty classic, certainly the best of the 'hood movies'. His charcters are desperate, complex, and the acting, uniformly excellent, especially Harvey Jietel who I thhin, gives his best performance ever. Lee and Richard Price have constructed a frighteneing, funny, sometimes heartbreaking look at black on black crime, all fashioned by Lee in a gritty, nightmarish documentarty tone. This is powerful stuff, one of the most underated films of the 90's.

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Summary: An Average Joint
Review: This crime drama about a troubled, confused teen boy has some well-done elements but the overall result isn`t too exciting or innovative. Strike is a young dealer living in a dangerous and claustrophobic neighborhood, and as he becomes more involved with some bad influences his problems start to increase and leaving him in a difficult situation.
Director Spike Lee uses a typical murder mystery to offer some insight into this NY community, showcasing their connections and relations. There are some stylish and edgy camera angles, the acting is generally convincent and the characters complex enough (even if a bit stereotyped), but the movie is ultimately too long, the pacing slow, the plot unsurprising, the score melodramatic and the ending a bit weak and forced.
So, despite some good moments, "Clockers" could have been more developed and edgier, since most of the picture offers nothing that hasn`t been shown in some TV series out there. Passable entertainment.

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Summary: VERY NOSTALGIC
Review: This film is probably the most emotionally compelling film I've ever seen. I feel like the ghosts of my past are reaching into me as I watch this.

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Summary: Riveting!
Review: This was more than a murder mystery, it was a brilliant, brutal display of the inner city street life and I don't mean boys in the hood. This was about the psychological breakdown in urban society and the desperation and broken dreams plaguing the African-American community and the racism among the cops. It's definitely not for the squemish with some real, graphic crime scene depictions but it is for those who are ready to see a cerebal and upsetting film that questions the hope and promise of a generation to come.

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Summary: ClOcKeRs IS RAW, REAL ,and POWERFUL
Review: With so many films based around the topic of drugs,and urban decay,and leaving the audience with a sense of (ok,I've seen this story before)made me ask "IS ClOcKeRs worth my time?" Hell yes! Spike Lee'S classic, ... yes classic, is so RAW,REAL,and POWERFUL that it makes all previous drug focused films seem pointless. what i mean is, most films that cover this topic seem to glamorize the lifestyle,and leaves no message.ClOcKeRs is the tail of A young black male called Strike who's spot on the benches and bleeding ulcer is getting the best of him, until his boss Rodney gives him a chance to move up in the drug game.When a fellow drug dealer gets killed,and Strike's hard working (legit) brother confesses to the murder,A detective by the name of Roco feels that there's more to the story. With a very raw intro and out standing directing, Spike Lee brings the realness to the screen with ClOcKeRs. so go rent it Aiight.

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Summary: ClOcKeRs IS RAW, REAL ,and POWERFUL
Review: With so many films based around the topic of drugs,and urban decay,and leaving the audience with a sense of (ok,I've seen this story before)made me ask "IS ClOcKeRs worth my time?" Hell yes! Spike Lee'S classic, ... yes classic, is so RAW,REAL,and POWERFUL that it makes all previous drug focused films seem pointless. what i mean is, most films that cover this topic seem to glamorize the lifestyle,and leaves no message.ClOcKeRs is the tail of A young black male called Strike who's spot on the benches and bleeding ulcer is getting the best of him, until his boss Rodney gives him a chance to move up in the drug game.When a fellow drug dealer gets killed,and Strike's hard working (legit) brother confesses to the murder,A detective by the name of Roco feels that there's more to the story. With a very raw intro and out standing directing, Spike Lee brings the realness to the screen with ClOcKeRs. so go rent it Aiight.

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Summary: Classic Gangsta Cinema from the hardest of hardcore Spike
Review: Yo, you gotta buy this yo. This is where it all comes from. This is the movie that in the future will be viewed as the end all be all of gangsta movies. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of a smart teenage drug dealer as he grows up in Brooklyn and tries to gain a lucrative spot in the drug game off the benches. It shows with flashbacks and good storytelling how black on black crime is created and perpetuated in the hood: too many men dealing crack son. This teenage hardcore is called Strike and he must choose his path in life and one thing the movie makes abundantly clear: Strike can stop dealing anytime he wants. Strike has money and trains. Strike has people in the community including two understanding cops and a mother and a brother and a sister in law who would like to see him change his ways and the script shows that he can chance anytime. He can go into witness protection. He can just up and move and take his money elsewhere. He's smart. he can do alot of things, but he chooses to stay and be a dealer. Why? because the most father-like influence on him is a hard-boiled dealer played by Delroy Lindo who permeates the film with rationale evil and avarice that make bad leutenant look like good family fun. So in short, Spike is showing through Strike how all the black youth just need a good father figure to set them straight, stop dealing and raise a family like Strikes brother who is honorable and sympathetic to the extreme. The soundtrack is brilliantly wrought to effect sympathy and compassion from the audience while the shocking visual elements cause us to question our own society.

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Summary: Classic Gangsta Cinema from the hardest of hardcore Spike
Review: Yo, you gotta buy this yo. This is where it all comes from. This is the movie that in the future will be viewed as the end all be all of gangsta movies. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of a smart teenage drug dealer as he grows up in Brooklyn and tries to gain a lucrative spot in the drug game off the benches. It shows with flashbacks and good storytelling how black on black crime is created and perpetuated in the hood: too many men dealing crack son. This teenage hardcore is called Strike and he must choose his path in life and one thing the movie makes abundantly clear: Strike can stop dealing anytime he wants. Strike has money and trains. Strike has people in the community including two understanding cops and a mother and a brother and a sister in law who would like to see him change his ways and the script shows that he can chance anytime. He can go into witness protection. He can just up and move and take his money elsewhere. He's smart. he can do alot of things, but he chooses to stay and be a dealer. Why? because the most father-like influence on him is a hard-boiled dealer played by Delroy Lindo who permeates the film with rationale evil and avarice that make bad leutenant look like good family fun. So in short, Spike is showing through Strike how all the black youth just need a good father figure to set them straight, stop dealing and raise a family like Strikes brother who is honorable and sympathetic to the extreme. The soundtrack is brilliantly wrought to effect sympathy and compassion from the audience while the shocking visual elements cause us to question our own society.