Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

FeistyUpper If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Loui Blair It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

SnoopyStyle It's 1986. Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his Cash Money Brothers become dominant in NYC with crack cocaine and violence. They take over the Carter apartment building as their own fortress. For the next few years, they become the scourge of the New Jack City. Stone (Mario Van Peebles) recruits renegade undercover cops Scotty Appleton (Ice-T) and Nick Peretti (Judd Nelson) to take down the gang. They clean up drug-addict Pookie (Chris Rock). Pookie infiltrates the gang for his friend Scotty.It's an over-the-top gangster movie. It has the flashy gangster style. Nino Brown is a super villain. Ice-T pulls off a good hardcore streetwise cop but Judd Nelson is too fake overplaying his crazy cop role. Chris Rock is terrific. Most of times, it's got the fun Scarface-cool ridiculousness. Other times, it's goes overboard into bad campy ridiculousness. It is generally more cool than camp.

Prismark10 Mario Van Peebles made his feature film directorial debut in New Jack City where he also co-stars with Ice T, Judd Nelson, Chris Rock and Wesley Snipes in this urban thriller dealing with the rise of a black gangster from the mid 1980s in New York City as he deals in crack cocaine and takes out the competition.Wesley Snipes is the smart but ruthless aspiring Crime Lord very much modelled on Al Pacino's Scarface. In fact at one point we even see footage of Scarface on the big screen playing in the background. However the film also introduces elements of The Untouchables as Ice T and Judd Nelson play combative detectives in a crime unit trying to bring the gang down.The film was very hip when it was released as it starts with fast cuts, hip hop music and strong violence as it sets out its stall but as the film progresses things are more measured as the pace slows down to introduce drama as the police try to close in on Nino who starts having problems of his own as schisms start to appear in his gang.The film is uneven, Snipes is very good but Ice T is not. Rock shows promise in an early role but his subsequent career shows that he did not progress much as a screen actor with his comedy shtick. Its also preachy here and there with its anti drug message and not a well written movie. Just look at the clunky way the war with the Italian mafia is dealt with as the Don is sitting on a table outside soon after he has tried to kill Nino.Once the opening zest and energy of the film dissipates it becomes very much a routine thriller, a stylish one but routine.

Mr-Fusion "New Jack City" is one of those movies that's made by one really good performance. In this case, it's Wesley Snipes, who takes the role of vicious drug lord and makes it his own, commanding every minute of his screen time. Unfortunately, he can't be around all the time, and we're left with Ice-T, Mario Van Peebles and Judd Nelson, who vary from half-decent to awful. No one else comes close to the lead. This probably had more cultural impact back in '91, but 25 years later, it's more bemusing than anything. It veers toward the cartoonish when it's eye is on Scarface levels of drama (even featuring the movie on TV to hammer home the point . . . twice). The sermonizing also doesn't work so well today, and the movie does plenty of that.5/10

samandyjohn In truth, Van Peebles neo-noir classic 'New Jack City' stands as the finest film committed to celluloid. Language is an inadequate device to convey the transcendent beauty of this monumental cinematic achievement. To quote Barry Davies 'Whether nations live in prosperity or starve to death interests me only in so far as we need them as slaves for our culture: otherwise it is of no interest to me.'If one is interested in the hawk, one must hunt the sparrow in the bush, for only then, can one know the crow. The Russell Crowe Psalms 11-13 If one walks with baboons, one must be careful not to look too far into the baboons, in case the baboons look into you also