Sarentrol
Masterful Cinema
Cleveronix
A different way of telling a story
Tayyab Torres
Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.
loyalistsk
just writing this to inform the guy that wrote he wanted to puke after hearing Flip's birthmark comment it's a comedy and best viewed if blazed up. In fact if you expect a deep introspective look into white guys acting black this movie is not it. It's a movie with a couple gimmicky lines and i actually LOL'd my ass off thru most of it with my buddies the year it came out. If you're 16-24 you're going to laugh regardless of skin tone. If not thats cool too but why watch the whole thing and just get racist angry? Peace everyone and God Bless! 6 out of ten mostly cause i had a really nice bag of the chronic and it was epic funny.
dallasmerrifield
If you are from the midwest and are Not infatuated with pop culture, then this movie is very funny. I have my own phrase "thug passion" which is my way of describing the unexplainable. Why are attractive girls obsessed with wannabbee gangstas? It's because of a "quality" that can't quite be described. Whiteboyz explains this phenomenon as well as I can.
Keiths1babygirl
Obviously the only people who have something sooooo against this movie are the people from iowa. Did you people see this movie in the true story section of the library or something? What gives you the idea that the film was not supposed to be fictional?! This is one of the funniest "whiteboy" comedy's of the 90's. I am white and did not find this movie offensive or degrading at all! I think this is a good example for the "wannabe" gangstas out there!GET REAL!
Mr Pants
i can understand why the makers of this film would want to exaggerate the situation, but i didn't think it need to be set in Iowa. as previous users have mentioned, Iowa is not drug- and black-free, but its image is of wholesome, all-white nostalgia. i didn't really buy Danny Hoch's Flip as an Iowa native, he still sounds too Brooklyn. i think it would have been better if it taken place in Jersey, but i understand the director's desire to show just how far Flip stretches.That said, i think it's a brilliant, if flawed, movie. it spends a bit too much time watching Flip do his misguided thing, before getting to the climax in Cabrini-Green. Hoch is great at affecting that 'what the hell is going on?' look, and tho this may sound weird, he doesn't overplay the character, except when he's in full blown hip hop mode. other than that his character is completely believable. he nails that character so well, the guy we've all known who has some idea in his head so large he can't hear anything else. Until he takes it too far.
