Oh, man. Anyone who ever went to film school has seen footage as bad as this. During the viewing of your classmates' first film class assignments. Mink (I love how he's too cool for school and doesn't want people to know his real name) truly has no clue where to put the camera, or what to tell his "actors", or what directing means.
One of my favorites is a dialogue scene outside someone's apartment or store, I think, and some lady keeps sweeping with a broom all over the place while two other people exchange painfully bad dialogue. Never mind that there's no dirt on the ground to sweep (1) or that her way of sweeping would've spread the dirt all over the place had there been any (2),or the fact that the blocking is so uninspired that most of the time you must wonder who's speaking, and more importantly, why (3). So you succumb to the horror, which is SO painful to watch, the only way to cope with the level of badness is to laugh uncontrollably at the horrific performances by (of course) rappers (as we all know, when you can string rhymes together, clearly you're more than qualified to act in motion pictures, too. No more training is required). My recommendation: (w)rap this piece of crap and put it where it belongs: in the garbage.
Full Clip
2004
Action / Thriller
Full Clip
2004
Action / Thriller
Plot summary
Joshua Pope (Busta Rhymes) returns to his childhood home to claim the inheritance his late father has left him only to find that the local police have turned the town upside down and are ruling with an iron fist. So, with the help of an old friend (Xzibit) and his cohorts,Pope sets out to reclaim the town he once loved...by any means necessary. Tounge and cheek 70's style action picture set in a comic book style universe.
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I might've gone blind, this was so horribly, awfully bad!
I'd rather eat tacks
I'm a person who really likes movies and really likes rap. I saw this movie had Xzibit in it so I gave it a shot. This was by far the most horrible movie I've ever seen....worse than Annaconda. For god sake...the movie has glitches IN THE MOVIE, it's not the disc. The blood looks like hot candle wax...and let's not forget about the scene where Busta Rhymes shoots a camera and it blows up as if it was a crate of C4. Do yourself a favor, go see Reservoir Dogs, Snatch, Fight Club, Boondock Saints, or some other good movie. And if you want to see a good black gangster movie with rappers in it...see Paid in Full...that's a great movie with a good cast and fantastic acting. Hope this was helpful...wish I could have read something like this before I went to see this movie.
Offbeat "noirish" hip hop action comedy
A slow-paced but "noirish" action comedy, Bustah Rhymes is perfect as a tough guy who unwittingly goes to collect his inheritance and ends up in a fight with a local sheriff. This is a whole lot better than the predictable, hip hop movie formulaic drivel that Hollywood insists on releasing. Xzibit and Spliff are good comic relief as his sidekicks that get greedy. Bubba"Hightower"Smith shows up as a talkative Hotel manager.
This quirky tale loosely interlaced around a western has a weird funeral director and ellen cleghorn as a sidewalk psychic "Mistress Cleo" type. This was a very offbeat film which really didn't go anywhere but was still interesting and amusing. I appreciated all the cool action with the dual pistols Joshua pope had. Wyclef jean is very good as the guitar playing prophet and narrator of Pope. The film had good energy and cool art direction, well worth watching.