New Jack City, or Ice T: The Movie is a great gangster film. I call it Ice T the movie because it might as well be. His persona is so cool, so high, so dominant, that I don't even remember anyone else in the film. Oh yeah, Wesley Snipes plays the bad guy, an gangsta wannabe who gets effortlessly owned at every turn. Didn't he know Ice invented gangsta? Chris Rock is also in the film, playing a crack head loser who accidentally helps Ice T and the white guy bust Nino. He's sort of like the Jar Jar Binks of this film.
Ice T is supposed to be playing a cop, but is really just playing Ice T, and not even trying to be anything else, and why not? It really carries a film that's otherwise filled with brooding killers and drug dealers. It turned the film into a comedy for me, because he wears the same wide-eyed glare throughout the whole film, and watching him shephard Pookie through his crack addiction with that almost supernatural, saintly and serious expression is comical. He also wears a variety of hats and pimp clothes, further removing any notion that he might possibly be a cop, even undercover. There's quite a good story to the film as I recall, with plenty of good scenes, and did I mention Ice T and his variety of hats?
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