Menace II Society
Life in the hood is pretty bleak, but if you're Caine or O-Dog, it doesn't get much worse than this. The Hughes brothers' widely hailed (and often imitated) ode to life in South Central L.A. is morose and overflowing with violence -- to the point where you'll get blown away just for making a comment about someone's mother. Our hero Caine wants to get away from it all -- but his efforts don't amount for much. In the end, Menace isn't much more than a tragedy about street life -- but it never really makes a point. If this world is so bad, why glamorize it so much? To be sure, it's in an influential and powerful story -- but it comes off as considerably more shallow than the reality it claims to portray.
Rating
3.5 out of 5 Stars
- Director: Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
- Producer: Darin Scott
- Screenwriter: Tyger Williams
- Stars: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Johnson, Brandon Hammond, Glenn Plummer, Reginald Ballard, Khandi Alexander
- MPAA Rating: R
- Year of Release: 1993
- Released on Video: 01/01/1994
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