Customer Reviews
Juice 
2008-03-08
I have seen Juice many times and it is still as powerful as the first time. Bishop, Quincy (Q), Raheem and Eric (Steel) are four very different friends looking for respect, they call it juice. They skip school and spend their days hustling at the pool hall and hiding from truant officers. Q wants to be a DJ and get out, Raheem is the teenage father trying to do the right thing, Steel is the quiet one who always goes along with everything, and Bishop is the thug who wants to stick up a local grocer they have tangled with. It turns ugly when the power goes to Bishop's head and the friends find out too late there may be more important things than making a few bucks. Notable appearances by Queen Latifah as a club owner, Cindy Herron (En Vogue) as Q's older girlfriend and a hot soundtrack.
Juice 
2008-02-26
One of the first and best gang movies, back at 90's, with Tupac alive and Dr House first assistant in the cast. Great Movie.
Juice 2008-02-11
I'm very happy with this purchase.
From I paid for the item till I got it..... The time was surprisingly short.
The movie lives up to my expectations.
Honest movie opinion 2007-05-30
I choose this movie because it's a movie that I can relate too going threw my teen years in the early 90's.
Good debut from Shakur 2007-05-17
Made in 1992, the clothes, hair and music all cry early 1990s. Ernest Dickerson's gritty street drama about four friends who grew up together in Harlem is emotional, convincing, yet not complete. Epps is great and the highlight of the film as `Q' the man in the crew which is skeptical about robbing a grocery store. Shakur gives a convincing over-the-top performance as `Bishop' the instigator and heart of the group, although Shakur has done better in films such as `Gridlock'd' and `Above the Rim'. Jermaine Hopkins and Khalil Kain were also good as the other two members of the crew. Samuel L. Jackson also gives a very cool performance as trip a local bar owner. Overall a good film, with some not so realistic plot turns, but still great message and characters.
Juice 2007-04-24
Spike Lee's longtime cinematographer, Ernest R. Dickerson, made his directorial debut with this violent story about four Harlem teens whose lives are changed when a store robbery goes wrong. The film has been likened to an urban
The Wild Bunch, but it is far too artificial for that. With Dickerson's eye,
Juice understandably looks great, but at the end of the day it is only a slightly better version of the heavily clichéd crime movies that have artificially dominated perceptions of black cinema in the U.S. in the '90s. Rap fans might enjoy seeing some familiar stars on board, including Queen Latifah and Tupac Shakur.
--Tom Keogh
Arguably the rise and fall of Tupac Shakur...................... 2007-04-19
More than a few people will agree that Pac's on and off screen demeanor changed dramatically after this movie was released.
Knowledge ,Money, power, respect: NYC 2007-04-05
Pac was way ahead of his time. Rapper, Actor,Producer!! And not like all these fac wanna act rappers wanna be. Pac was a true actor and everything he did was from the heart that is the reason why he was and still is the realest aka Makaveli Da Don R.I.p ............. Overal this is a hot movie based on a group of friends from N.Y.C and what happends when a robbery goes wrong. A fight for Money,power street cred and respect. This film gets 5 out of 5 in my eyes 100%
Juice is too sweet to put down! 2007-02-09
Juice is an excellent movie that I never get tired watching. Guns and respect go hand-in-hand in the ghetto, and "Juice" dares to tell this to a mainstream audience. Although the story is told in a Hollywood manner you never doubt the events that take place haven't happened in reality at some point (except maybe the end). We meet our main characters through a montage which establishes the basic setting of the film. They are four black teenagers who live in Harlem, yet the way in which Dickerson depicts the atmosphere is not Gothic and pessimistic, just realistic.
First there's Q (Epps), a relatively quiet kid who aims to be a professional rap deejay someday, but he seems to be the only one who believes in himself. Then there's Bishop (Shakur), who's short-tempered, hyperactive, and apparently fearless. He always seems to be harassed by a Puerto Rican street gang, but he welcomes their violent challenges. It's hard to tell if he's doing it to keep his rep, or if he's got a death wish. There's also Steel (Hopkins), the generic funny-but-fat kid of the group whom the others constantly pick on. Finally, there's Raheem (Kain), the mediator of the group who seems the most responsible, although he does have an illegitimate child.
For the first 45 minutes there is almost no plot, just sheer character development and it's interesting to watch because it's a nice change of pace and the acting is superb. These four young men are an interesting group of characters as the script and their improvisation makes for great camaraderie. Few films are as driven by the acting as this film is. The heist scene is pulled off beautifully, and we realize how much of a talent we lost through Tupac's death. This is one of the best movies that Paramount gave us during the 1990s. The directing and script is also brilliant. In fact Tupac did one of the best acting jobs I've seen any musician do. I mean that guy did the best crazy-villain role I've ever seen..... well probably along side Wesley Snipe in New Jack City.
From the first shot to the last, JUICE is a heist flick set in a time where TRUE Hip-Hop was king. It makes me long for the days. I believe this movie was definitely a chilling reality about the ghetto's pride in respect and power. When your living in the ghetto, society automatically paints you out to be a low class individual, but this film brought to life the quest of 4 young men who wanted a name for themselves and did not just want to be another statistic or face in the crowd. Unfortunately the end of their journey left them just that. Highly recommended.
Do you got JUICE? 2007-01-10
This movie is a definite must have, especially for 2pac fans/omar epps fans. 2pac plays the role of a character pretty similar to what you would expect in his first big-screen debut. raw,rugged, and street JUICE brings a "eighties era" Crooklyn story to the shelf. very intense movie!!
