Ross622 This movie is unlike any other gangster movie that I have ever seen and is arguably one of the best of all time, and it's very hard to believe that this is a directorial debut and it is also one of the best debuts I've ever seen. The movie chronicles the career of a gangster named Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) who is a very ruthless gangster who will do anything necessary to make money even if it's illegal with the help of his trusted cohorts Gee Money (Allen Payne) and Kareem Akbar (Christopher Williams). Brown is also under investigation by detectives Scottie Appleton (Ice-T) and Detective Stone (Mario Van Peebles, who also directed this movie) who also have an informant named Pookie (Chris Rock). It is funny to me but prior to watching this movie I never thought of ever seeing Wesley Snipes as a gangster, and Chris Rock in a dramatic role altogether but in their cases their performances exceeded my own expectations, but Ice-T i'm used to playing as a cop because of his work on "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". Everything in this movie is nearly flawless, but there was one minor problem that I had which was that the songs about "New Jack City" go on and on and can get pretty annoying after a while of hearing them but everything else including the Wesley Snipes performance, and the visionary direction of Mario Van Peebles struck the right chords in telling a story set in the suburbs of New York City, telling a pure and realistic message about what drugs can do to people on the streets and how harmful they can be, which is a reason why more people should watch this movie to learn about the harmful effects of drug addiction. This is one of the 10 best and most memorable movies of 1991.

charlesvine-75968 One of the very best movies ever produced. Wesley Snipes was superb as gangsta Nino Brown as was Alan Payne as G-Money, Nino Brown's side-kick. In fact, the entire movie was wonderfully cast.As other reviewers have mentioned, the movie delivers an important message...yet at the same time it is riveting and hilarious at the same time. There are many politically incorrect racial and ethic slurs tossed about so the sensitive viewers may want to beware.Non-stop action that is marvelously delivered by all the actors and actresses. This movie has been described as a sort of Gone With The Wind for the Gangsta population and a break through film for Wesley Snipes.

videorama-759-859391 New Jack City is a film to appreciate on many levels. It really means well, enforcing the message of addiction, and choosing the path between right and wrong. It's a lot to enjoy, and you somewhere feel the movie is presented in an over rated style, if trying to be better than it really is. I think where it fails, is because everything in it, we've seen all before. It's really an enthusiastic effort, seen from the good performances the movie brings out, some rock solid, like Nelson and Peebles who directed the movie, which even stars, oddly, Russell Wong, one of my favourite Asian actors as part of Peeble's squad. It's just isn't as good as other drug movies like Deep Cover or Sugar Hill. Wesley is fantastic in a villainary role, such a different contrast to his well meaning cop-hating Larry Fishburne character in King Of New York. This is a movie where he really shines, and may'be at his brightest, if reaching his peak of acting quality, the accolades he got for this, come as no surprise. He plays Nino Brown, who created a big drug empire, taking over residence in New York, even if it means kicking out people, or burning down buildings, the speech of defence he gives in the courtroom, at the end, going on about how he wasn't brought up in riches, was so cliché'd, as in the drug pusher trying to save his own skin scenario, his fate minutes later, of righteous justice was a beautiful shock. He and his empire are at war too with the Italian mafia. Snipes who's really a scummy and weak character, who will do anything to save his own skin, like using kids for bullet proof vests, doesn't take too kindly to insults from the wops either, when given a gift of ridicule. Chris Rock as a drug addicted teen, who Ice T takes under his wing, is so frickin' believable, I couldn't believe it, where seeing it many times, didn't recognize it was him. Away from the drug meetings and selling, and the open violence on the streets, that includes a retaliation by the Wops, using Uzi's, the movie has potent moments like, the rehabilitation scenes with Tucker, who we feel so sorry for. And for flesh dancing, we have one of Snipes's floozies, doing an animated hot bra and panties dance to George Michael's "I wanna sex you up". Highly appropriate and arousing. The unorthodox and hot tempered undercover cop, Ice T, goes undercover, bonding with Snipes, a good reason behind it too. Ice is far from your ordinary undercover cop, as is Nelson, who again I must say is really good, who's just out there, who's paired with him. NJC is good action fare with a story and heart, but there are just a few pieces of stuff, missing from the film, that could of made it better. It's just the feeling I got overall. But director Peebles has impressed, and done something good with this.

Patrick Lockett This movie made no sense it was all over the place. I know it's an older movie which is why I'm giving it some leeway here but all in all it still made cops look like idiots and dumb crooks look like geniuses. There were many times they could have arrested Nino or at least had his drug empire crumble around him. Entertaining but made no sense. There were some good performances by Chris Rock as a junkie and then redeeming himself as an informant, this movie would have been a lot better had they kept Pookie alive and had this movie a bit more of of a road to redemption for him. In the end though while this movie has some entertaining values in the end it just failed to meet expectations.