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A Rage in Harlem Reviews
Great movie love the cinematography and cast
Based on the book by Chester Himes and executive produced by Forest Whitaker. Taking place in 1956 Robin Givens, Forrest Whitaker, and Danny Glover are making a rage in the big city. Givens is Immabelle involved in a gangster shooting with the police and she flees to NYC. She has a bundle of gold with her. She meets an undertaker named Jackson who falls in love with her. But eventually the gangsters catch up to Immabelle and now Jackson has to protect her with some help. Glover is Easy Money, a city gangster who also wants in on the gold. The movie is too long and Glover isn't in the movie enough. Can't really find the right tone when it comes to comedy or straight up gangster shoot em up. Still Whitaker and Givens are a nice pairing. It's a period piece involving lust and larceny that can't live up to the source material but tries its best.
Love the movie My favorite
Thrills, laughs, and pathos, dished up with verve and heart, make a film that many of us still remember very affectionately.
Mare incidents sans any excitement.
A cartoony take of what a black crime film could be. More like Dick Tracy than White Heat... Uh, not the good Dick Tracy. How about Tracy Dick from "The Godson"? Made for 온라인카지노추천 quality.
a very good movie!!!!!!
Pop goes da weasel!..
Maybe its a bit out dated but I was bored through most of it and it wasn't a particularly good film.
Oh silly movies. Didn't realize how many one liners came from this flick.
its allright kindof funny sometimes
(Includes one minor spoiler, but it's unrelated to the plot and really more of a recommendation.) Surprised to see so few votes and comments for A Rage in Harlem - it was a modest commercial hit in Britain, so perhaps the all-black casting and setting just didn't play Peoria. The tone of this stylish, good-looking period crime adventure swings wildly between brutal, raunchy, tragic and comic, but a clever, funny script and likeable characters - especially Gregory Hines's big-hearted wiseguy Goldy, but also several delightfully written minor roles - maintain attention and sympathy throughout what could otherwise have been a bumpy ride. It's an emotionally engaging film, much more character-driven than the average urban thriller of the 1990s. Its purely incidental pleasures are many, topped by a splendid musical treat in the shape of cult R 'n' B hero Screamin' Jay Hawkins, giving a no-holds-barred performance of his voodoo classic I Put a Spell on You at the Harlem Undertakers' Ball. If you have a taste for the old school of black show business, this sequence will have you holding up the rest of the picture until you've given Screamin' Jay an encore. Thrills, laughs, and pathos, dished up with verve and heart, make a film that many of us still remember very affectionately.
I Love this movie!!!
heavy-weight cast and robin givens is so damn hot in this you just gotta have a pulse and get with the program
It's kinda hard to believe but this was the first Hollywood studio produced film to feature a glamorous African-American woman--Robin Givens--since Diana Ross's ill-fated Mahogany in 1975. It's also surprisingly decent.