This is one of those pictures that is at its best when illustrating a certain kind of life in a certain kind of place at a certain point in U.S. history. In 40 years, it might make a valuable period piece.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 30, 2023

Turn It Up is a hip-hop downer that makes the high-risk high-life of contempo gangstas seem glumly routine.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2008

Surprisingly, for a movie about music, the sound is lousy. Some of the songs sound distorted because they have so much bass. In other moments, the dialogue is so low, it's hard to understand what the characters are saying.

Full Review | Mar 5, 2007

In the final analysis it's more exploitative than uplifting.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2002

It lacks characters engaging enough to keep us involved.

| Oct 21, 2002

Never aspires to be more than an excuse for Pras and Ja Rule to flash their ultra-sleek M온라인카지노추천 fashions for 90 minutes.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 21, 2001

It lacks the originality and integrity that might have allowed the movie to breakout from the pack rather than sticking with it.

Full Review | Original Score: 63/100 | Mar 21, 2001

It's a formulaic street-crime thriller with a message, and if Turn It Up doesn't bring much new to the genre, it serves it reliably.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Even the soundtrack ... sounds like leftovers.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Plays through every cliche imaginable with its clunky dialogue.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Jan 1, 2000

The film is little more than an unambitious, well-packaged passel of urban black clichs.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 1, 2000

Eventually Turn It Up deteriorates into a gory shoot-'em-up gangster movie with a quick-fix ending that leaves many threads dangling. It could have been something more.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

The staging and performances are awkward, the frequent shoot-outs a snore, and there's no reprise of Ghetto Supastar.

| Jan 1, 2000

In his first acting job, Ja Rule reveals a magnetic presence, smoldering with rage and eroticism.

| Jan 1, 2000

Merely a slickly rehashed copy of scenes from better movies, with a bit of flash but no real truth or heart.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

This is perhaps the worst film of its kind to see a theatrical release.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jan 1, 2000

None of this is remotely compelling, and first-time writer/director Robert Adetuyi doesn't develop anything resembling a style.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 1, 2000