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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 7378
Released: August 23, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Just as cool and topical today as when it first opened, New Jack City stars Wesley Snipes as the angel-of-death crack kingpin who holds a city in his grasp. Ice T, Judd Nelson and Mario Van Peebles (who also directs) play police officers who lay it all on the line. Chris Rock and Vanessa Williams co-star. A dynamic cutting-edge soundtrack includes tunes by Ice T, Queen Latifah, 2 Live Crew and more.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Documentaries
Music Video
Theatrical Trailer
Description of New Jack City (Two-Disc Special Edition):
Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorized drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in theaters. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. However you interpret it, New Jack City is still one of the first and best films of the 1990s to crack open the underworld of cocaine and peer inside with its eyes wide open. It's also the film that established Wesley Snipes as an actor to watch, with enough charisma to bring an insidious quality of seduction to his role as coke-lord Nino Brown, and enough intelligence to portray a character deluded by his own sense of indestructible power. Director Mario Van Peebles stretched his otherwise-limited talent to bring vivid authenticity and urgency to this crime story, and subplots involving a pair of tenacious cops (Ice-T, Judd Nelson) and a recovering coke addict (Chris Rock) provide additional dramatic tension. Although some critics may hesitate to admit it, New Jack City deserves mention in any serious discussion about African American filmmakers and influential films. --Jeff Shannon
New Jack City (Two-Disc Special Edition) Reviews:
Right on Time Purchase 
2008-05-02 - I'm so happy with my purchase of "New Jack City". The shipping was very
fast, and the price was vey reasonable.
GReat Jack 
2008-04-28 - This is a great movie. A real gritty crime drama with an excellent cast and a reminder of what style was like in the late 80s.
new jack city
2008-01-29 - WOW,this movie was the first part of American Ganster.All the actors played their parts very well.
DVD Purchase
2008-01-18 - Excellent! I received the shipment before I even expected it. The DVD was in perfect condition when it arrived, and I would not hesitate to use again.
A true cinema classic
2007-06-22 - When I first saw this movie, I can honestly say that it delivered on all aspects of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Mario Van Peebles did a wonderful job, and Wesley Snipes was outstanding. Ice T, phenomenal. Two other great actors in this film would have to be Christopher Williams, and Vanessa Williams. I personally recommend this film to all.
