68% (3) New Jack City 97 min, R, [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Mario Van Peebles] [08 Mar 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 66%, Rotten Tomatoes: 77%, Metacritic: 61%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 4 nominations.
Actors: Allen Payne, Chris Rock, Ice-T, Wesley Snipes
Writer: Thomas Lee Wright (story), Thomas Lee Wright (screenplay), Barry Michael Cooper (screenplay)
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Plot: The gangster Nino has a gang who call themselves Cash Money Brothers. They get into the crack business and not before long they make a million dollars every week. A cop, Scotty, is after them. He tries to get into the gang by letting an ex-drug addict infiltrate the gang, but the attempt fails miserably. The only thing that remains is that Scotty himself becomes a drug pusher.
Rotten Tomatoes: The ruthless leader of a New York City drug syndicate battles to maintain his power and avoid imprisonment in this fast-moving action drama. While the film's heroes are Scotty (Ice-T) and Nick (Judd Nelson), a pair of tough, streetwise cops, the main focus is their target, drug lord Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes). A criminal businessman with no room for pity or emotion, the flashy but severe Brown has built an empire and transformed an abandoned Harlem apartment building into a well-defended fortress. He begins to consider himself invincible, but his lust for power and the unpredictable actions of a former client turned police informer threaten to bring about his potential downfall. First-time director Mario Van Peebles keeps the traditional plot moving at an appropriately rapid pace, with stylish action sequences and energetic performances. The film's violence was somewhat controversial on its initial release, especially after shooting incidents marred showings in several theaters. However, the film's moral message is clearly anti-drug and anti-crime, its main intent to provide a high-powered, modern take on the gangster movie. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
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66% (2) Ricochet 102 min, R, [Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Russell Mulcahy] [04 Oct 1991]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 61%, Rotten Tomatoes: 72%, External Reviews
Actors: Denzel Washington, Ice-T, John Lithgow, Kevin Pollak
Writer: Fred Dekker (story), Menno Meyjes (story), Steven E. de Souza (screenplay)
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Plot: In this action thriller, Denzel Washington plays Nick Styles, the assistant district attorney of L.A. The film opens in his early days as a cop on the L.A.P.D. During a carnival, master criminal Earl Talbot Blake creates a scene after a botched drug deal. Styles and Blake confront each other, during which Blake is wounded by Styles and later sent to prison. Seven years later, Blake escapes from prison during a parole board hearing to carry out his revenge against Styles, and what follows is a violent series of events that destroys Styles' career. This sets the stage for one last bloody duel between Styles and Blake.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this fingernail-biting suspense film, a young cop (Denzel Washington) busts an infamous psycho who, when in prison, becomes totally devoted to avenging his incarceration by evening the score with his captor. When the psycho killer escapes, he is after Washington.
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65% (2) Trespass 101 min, R, [Action, Thriller] [Walter Hill] [25 Dec 1992]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Bill Paxton, Ice Cube, Ice-T, William Sadler
Writer: Bob Gale, Robert Zemeckis
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Plot: Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is in the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.
Rotten Tomatoes: After learning the location of a bag of stolen gold, two Southern firemen head north to search an abandoned St. Louis factory for the loot in this action drama. Unluckily, they stumble into the middle of a gang war, and their battle for the gold leads to a violent confrontation.
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45% (2) Tank Girl 104 min, R, [Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi] [Rachel Talalay] [31 Mar 1995]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 53%, Rotten Tomatoes: 38%, External Reviews
Actors: Don Harvey, Ice-T, Lori Petty, Naomi Watts
Writer: Alan Martin (comic strip), Jamie Hewlett (comic strip), Tedi Sarafian
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Plot: Tank Girl (Rebecca) and her friends are the only remaining citizens living in the wasteland that is Earth, where all the remaining water is controlled by Water and Power, the mega corporation/government that runs the territory. While incarcerated at W + P, Tank Girl and her new friend Jet Girl break out and steal... a tank and a jet. After meeting some mutant kangaroo/humans, and rescuing her little girl (adopted by her friends), the kangaroos and the girls kick Water and Powers' butt.
Rotten Tomatoes: This wild, futuristic action-fantasy is set in the year 2033 where drought and pollution have turned the Earth into a desert wasteland. The planet's water supply is controlled by a despotic company that is opposed by a few courageous rebels who regularly risk their lives to poach the precious fluid.
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43% (2) Surviving the Game 96 min, R, [Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller] [Ernest R. Dickerson] [15 Apr 1994]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 62%, Rotten Tomatoes: 25%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 nomination.
Actors: Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, Ice-T, Rutger Hauer
Writer: Eric Bernt
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Plot: Mason, who lives on the streets, wants to cease his life when on the same day his two best friends die: His dog and an older man with whom he shared his food and roof. Just in time Cole, from a charity organization, can prevent his suicide and also offers him a quite well paid job as servant for a hunting party in the Rocky Mountains. Mason accepts the job and flies with them to a hut in the wilderness where they prepare everything for the four rich businessmen who want to hunt something special. Mason does not yet know that he is the victim of their sports that should lead to the basic insticts of man, but they did not count with his cleverness...
Rotten Tomatoes: Remake of the classic 1932 thriller The Most Dangerous Game, with Ice-T as a wilderness guide who discovers that his party of hunters plan to use him as their prey. Score by Stewart Copeland.
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34% (2) Johnny Mnemonic 96 min, R, [Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller] [Robert Longo] [26 May 1995]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 56%, Rotten Tomatoes: 13%, External Reviews
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Dina Meyer, Dolph Lundgren, Ice-T, Keanu Reeves, Takeshi Kitano
Writer: William Gibson (screenplay), William Gibson (short story)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: English, Japanese Country: Canada, USA
Plot: In 2021, the whole world is connected by the gigantic Internet, and almost a half of the population is suffering from the Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS).Johnny with an inplanted memory chip in his brain was ordered to transport the over loaded information from Beijing to Newark. While Pharmakom Industries supported by yakuza tries to capture him to get the informaiton back, the Low-tech group led by J-Bone tries to break the missing code to download the cure of NAS which Johnny carries.
Rotten Tomatoes: This Canadian sci-fi action feature is set in the grim, heavily computerized future. It is the tale of Johnny, a young man with a computer chip implanted in his head. The chip contains a wealth of top-secret information that he must smuggle from Japan to the US. He is pursued by an evil yakuza who wants the information for his own mega-corporation. Johnny evades him and makes it to the Free City of Newark where he is to be downloaded. He must hurry because if the information isn't removed soon, his head will explode. While in Newark, he is chased by a loin-cloth wearing villain who wants his head, which he will keep alive until the information has been retrieved. In the end, Johnny's information is successfully downloaded amid spectacular computer-generated graphics.
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