1991 · gangster · crack-era · drugs
New Jack City
Directed by Mario Van Peebles1h 41m1991
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Our read: New Jack City (1991) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded gangster · crack-era · drugs entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme gangster / crack-era, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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