As hard as Ernie Hudson, Nia Long, and Terrance Howard tried they couldn't do enough to save this Luke-warm movie. As a matter of fact, if it were not for the afore-mentioned actors I would have given this movie a 2 or 3. The acting in this movie was borderline terrible, the directing was even worse, and whoever wrote the script completely failed. This was the most unintriguing who-dun-it film I've watched in some time. The climactic scenes were anti-climactic, the "twist" was ho-hum if not predictable, and the ending was just criminal. This movie seemed to be something more for start up actors as opposed to the seasoned actors in the movie. It was a nice try, but it just didn't meet the mark.
Plot summary
Corrupt record company executives kill a singing sensation with a drug overdose rather than letting her leave their label and join another company. They then frame her foster brother/manager for the murder, forcing him to go on the run and try to get the goods on the real killers.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
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Top cast
Nia Long as Carmen Jones
Ernie Hudson as Curtis '8-Ball' Harris
Shemar Moore as Freddy Roland
Salli Richardson-Whitfield as Blusette Ford
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Host of known black actors can't save this one
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pure unadultered crap
I happened to catch this movie last night on tv. Nevertheless, it was sunday and I live in a town where tumbleweeds are more lively than the actual citizens. Anyway, this movie was pure unadultered crap. The direction was crap, some decent acting, and the sets looked like those of a shitty american soap opera. This movie was a joke, if I kept on watching it was because my only other option was some Martha Stewart show, and i Can't put up with that since my liver is about to give up on me. Well, skip this at all costs, it is not worth a penny.
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Never 2 Big
Butter is an urban thriller set in the music industry. Pop star Carmen Jones is unhappy about her recording contract and record label who she believes is cheating her.
Her label boss, 8 Ball is determined for her not to leave and resorts to murder by making it look like a drug overdose and then framing her cousin, Freddie Jones for her death.
Freddie is now on the run trying to clear his name with only a few people he can rely on, one of them is a cop, Dexter Banks.
One of the issues with the movie is that the lead actor Shemar Moore who plays Freddie is rather poor and is outshone by other more famous names such as Ernie Hudson, Terrence Howard, Nia Long, Tony Todd and Donald Faison. I bet the producers now wish that Howard was cast as the lead instead.
The script is workmanlike at best, laughably poor at worse. The direction is lacklustre.