Fun and great movie if you don't wanna think too hard

It could have worked with the right writers and the soundtrack is nice but overall the characters were either forgettable or annoying, every single joke was kinda the same either being ray's situation or "adult" jokes,and it was even sometimes boring. 2/10

Not a great movie but very good! This movie is NOT for everyone as a vast number of people might not "get it" based on some reviews I've seen! This movie has Oscar and Emmy winning actors in it! Def worth a watch!

great movie original comedy best part is it doesn't seem scripted

Too damn funny! Best comedy ive seen in a while. DJ Pooh does it again! I need a part 2!

Awesome movie! Faizon is too funny! Had me laughing all night. Pooh is a genius!

Great movie. Classic Hood comedy. Made by the same guy who made Friday and its worth watching.

One of the worst films I have ever seen. Its title explains everything.

Three Strikes (DJ Pooh, 2000) [originally posted 6Mar2000] Lesson one: never let the only person at the table neither of you has ever met choose the movie you're going to see that night. Lesson two: "dinner and a movie" these days must, by necessity, have the movie first. You can't plan a dinner to finish just around the time that movies start unless you make it yourself. Once upon a time there was a rapper and his DJ. The DJ had written a movie script, and the rapper wanted to to star in it. It came out about the same time as eighty-seven-and-a-half other movies starring rappers, and there wasn't really much to distinguish it save the presence of an up-and-coming comedian who later went on to superstardom. And I don't know whether Chris Tucker is the reason, or something else, but Friday--written by Pooh and starring Ice Cube-- became a cult hit. It's still almost impossible to rent, years later, and when it shows up on prime time television, it gets ratings good enough to put it in the top twenty or so for the week. This, of course, makes Pooh think "hey, my movie must be better than the rest of them. Maybe I should try it again." In one month, Pooh has had two movies pop up-- Next Friday, the sequel to Friday, and Three Strikes. Everyone and their brother has already panned the former, so I don't need to add my own thoughts. But I haven't seen any reviews of Three Strikes yet. So I still get to chime in. The story revolves around Robert Duncan (Brian Hooks), a two-time offender who gets out of prison and, thanks to a series of misadventures, finds himself in a shootout over a stolen car. Knowing that he's going to jail for good if the cops think he's involved in some way, he runs, and spends the rest of the movie on the run from the cops while trying to patch things up with his girfriend (N'Bushe Wright), avoid the friends of the car thief/shooter he left in the lurch, and calm his dysfunctional family. The usual misadventures occur that one sees in a movie such as this. And that's the problem with this flick-- it's the usual, the usual, and more of the usual. Some funny stuff, because Pooh really is good at writing comedy, but for the most part a lot of talented comic castmembers fall flat. David Alan Grier, as the primary on the Duncan case, falls flat in almost every scene. Vincent Schiavelli is completely forgettable as Duncan's parole officer, and David Leisure doesn't have enough screen time to really get his shtick into gear. These performances balance out the good stuff-- Wright, Faison Love as the all-too-likable bad guy, and Duncan's deadpan sidekick, played by... uhhhhhh... IMDB isn't listing most of the players here. D'oh! In any case, it might be worth a rental. If you're a DJ Pooh completist or just like staring at N'Bushe Wright. Otherwise, ignore it and let it slip into the well-deserved obscurity waiting for it. **

The poor man's Friday.

My review isn't exaclty COMPLETELY fair- unless the first 10 minutes of the movie were a reflection of waht the movie was like the rest of the way through

mi favoriest movie of all time doe been like since '01 lol

Couple good actors but not a lot of funny parts could have been way better 3 stars maybe over rated.

This director deserves to be homeless after this.

God awful braindead piece of garbage that i wish i could give zero stars.

this movie very very funny

Not all that great hence the rating. Just something to watch if nothing else is on

This was actually really funny. Wrong on so many levels but still funny.

NOT ANOTHER B-MOVIE! !

It's no surprise to me really that this movie "strikes out" on pretty much every level of film making imaginable, from the story and direction, to the set up for jokes. Let this be a lesson: not all members in the rap community belong in the world of film, especially if you're nickname is "D.J. Pooh" of all things.