The storytelling pleasures are drowned out by the usual slap operatics...

| Jun 29, 2022

Violent movie starring rapper DMX is not for kids.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 26, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

| Original Score: 1/4 | Dec 27, 2007

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 2, 2005

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 7, 2004

This is not a workable drama, just a series of ideas that rap stars who worship Scarface think would be cool to see.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 28, 2004

It's too bad the filmmakers couldn't find a way to present [Goines's] vision without resorting to some pretty threadbare clichs.

| May 20, 2004

| Original Score: D | Apr 24, 2004

His death was moving; his life was not. It's a requiem for a scumbag--one who left a whole lotta decent people destroyed in his wake.

Full Review | Apr 16, 2004

[A] gritty film noir [about] a sleazy drug pusher looking for redemption, but who - in classic noir fashion - learns that there is no escaping paying for one's past sins.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2004

Hampered by its convoluted plot and a marked melodramatic streak that counteracts the film's cool factor.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 3, 2004

There's neither action nor thrill in this so-called action thriller, and there's really no reason to sit through it.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 2, 2004

Never Die Alone is one of those dreadful movies that wants us to think it is deep and philosophical, but it's junk masquerading as art.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Apr 2, 2004

If movies like Bad Lieutenant and Spun are your idea of a good time, then DMX has the film for you.

| Mar 31, 2004

This is a violence-ridden movie with one of the most despicable characters you ever will see.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 31, 2004

This 'gangsta noir' is a worthy heir to both 'blaxploitation' and to the Warner Bros. gangster classics that linked economic hardship and the allure of crime...

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 30, 2004

Like its main character, Never Die Alone is beyond redemption.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 29, 2004

Thumbs down for me.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2004

A pimped-up facsimile of David Goines' novel. I can't think of a more apt description of this misogynist and deeply flawed film noir.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2004