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

Thumbs down for me.

Full Review | Mar 29, 2004

A misogynistic, dull-witted bore.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Mar 28, 2004

A bumbling adaptation.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

What makes Never Die Alone so monumentally terrible isn't just its bearhugging of gangsta flick convention, but its desperate attempt to imbue run-of-the-mill crime with noir classicism.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2004

The various stories are strong enough to compensate for any acting deficiencies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2004

If not for the excessive melodrama, lousy dialogue, clumsy acting and generally nasty vibe, "Never Die Alone" could have had the kind of distinctive edge that made urban street dramas like Juice, Menace II Society...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

DMX has all the charisma you'd expect of a music star, and he uses it to portray King David as larger than life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 26, 2004

A violent, would-be film noir that strains with limited success for tragic resonance and gritty authenticity.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Never Die Alone is the first of Goines' ultragritty novels has made it to the big screen. If this is the best his words can inspire, it should also be the last.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Never Die Alone is urban exploitation so badly written it sacrifices any claim to authenticity, with performances so uniformly awful it could be a meeting of Bad Actors Anonymous.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 26, 2004

It's hard to imagine a more disturbingly woman-hating movie than Never Die Alone.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 26, 2004

Never Die Alone is [Dickerson's] best work to date, with the complexity of serious fiction and the nerve to start dark and stay dark, to follow the logic of its story right down to its inevitable end.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 26, 2004

A flashy but ultimately routine saga of gangsta criminality and payback.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 26, 2004

The only good thing about Never Die Alone is its rap-retro soundtrack.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 26, 2004

DMX isn't up to the acting needed to play an epic anti-hero, but then director/ex-cinematographer Ernest Dickerson never makes Never very epic on any level.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 25, 2004

Never Die Alone is soft and squishy, lacking tension and suspense, not to mention logic.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 25, 2004

If you cut the expletives from Never Die Alone, it's unlikely that this updated blaxploitation flick would run more than 15 minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 25, 2004

A nasty piece of work that doesn't seem to have met a cliche it didn't like.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 25, 2004