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Clockers [DVD] [1996] [2017]
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Product Description A hard-hitting Spike Lee film with a very disturbing opening credits sequence. Strike (Mekhi Phifer) is a Clocker (24-hour drug dealer) who becomes implicated in the murder of a rival after a tip off. Two cops investigate, Mazilli (John Turturro - looking for a quick solution) and Rocco (Harvey Keitel - looking for the truth). When Strike's brother confesses to the shooting, Rocco decides to find the real killer. .co.uk Review Based on the riveting bestseller by Richard Price, this 1995 crime drama was directed by Spike Lee with such authority and authenticity that it has the hyper-real quality of a stylised documentary. Fully capturing the thoroughly researched detail of Price's novel, the film focuses on Strike (Mekhi Phifer), a young, ambitious "clocker"--or drug dealer--who works the streets of his New York housing project, selling drugs for a local supplier named Rodney (played with ferocious charisma by Delroy Lindo). Just as Strike is struggling to get away from his dead-end life of crime, another dealer is murdered in a fast-food restaurant and local detectives (Harvey Keitel, John Turturro) consider Strike the primary suspect. In cowriting the script with novelist Price, Lee uses this murder mystery to explore the plague of guns and black-on-black crime in America's inner cities, in which drugs and death are familiar routines of daily life. The film doesn't pretend to offer solutions, nor does it dwell on the problem with numbing insistence. Rather, this taut, well-acted film takes the viewer into a world often hidden in plain sight--a world where options seem nonexistent for youth conditioned to have little or no expectation beyond a probable early death. Lee and Price are deadly serious in handling this volatile subject (which incorporates racism, powerless law enforcement, and political indifference), but Clockers is also blessed with humor, insight, and humanity. It's one of Lee's most confidently directed films, signaling a creative maturity that Lee continued to develop throughout the 1990s. --Jeff Shannon
M**M
The Mean Streets Of New York
A drug dealer gets caught between a drug kingpin and 2 homicide detectives after a rival is murdered. Spike Lee's movie from 1995 was originally set to be directed by Martin Scorsese and star Robert DeNiro and you have to wonder how different the movie would have been. But this is a fine film from Spike Lee. A slow burn thriller with good performances from Meki Phifer, Delroy Lindo and Harvey Kietel that takes a look at black men trying to escape from the drug pushers of Brooklyn, New York with drug dealer Strike trying to escape from a drug kingpin and 2 cops.
C**C
top film
Clockers is, in my opinion a gem of a film with a gritty and realistic storyline with very strong lead and supporting roles. Harvey is excellent as always, now all i need now is Mean Streets to make me even happier, hopefully it will be available fairly soon, without having to import. I never thought i would see this release on blu ray, but thankfully the makers decided to do it justice and transfer to blu ray, and they have done a fine job of putting to blu ray, and the audio quality is a vast improvement on the dvd release. As for those posters who give films one star because things did not arrive or do not work, 2 words, STOP IT !! It bugs the life out of me when they do that, take it up with amazon and keep your snivelling away from reviews, it reflects badly on the product, and you as a "reviewer"
L**D
Another One Bites the Dust
Most seem to rate this film, but to me it felt like they had recruited a load of amateur actors. On top of that the film was slow and unengaging. After half an hour I had had enough. Just another third rate film in my eyes.
L**S
Very good
Entertaining thriller
P**H
Great film from Brooklyn
Blue ray is sometimes grainy
R**G
Decent and that
Decent film and that.
C**N
clockers
I found that this film was ok to watch but did not hold my attention too well as the story was a bit slow.
M**
Five Stars
Nice one thxs
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