(1993) Sugar Hill
CRIME DRAMA
More than two hours too long who as a pair of young brothers Roemello and Raynathan Skuggs, when they were little used to witness their own mother overdosing herself to death while the father almost killed himself for being an user himself and betraying an Italian family member lead by Gus (Abe Vigoda). The movie then jumps to the present time to the Skugg brothers to be the Wesley Snipes as the younger brother Roemello and Michael Wright as the older one Raynathan and are successful for doing what their father failed to do which is to be the #1 drug sellers of "Sugar Hill" which is really a part of Harlem and not to be the drug doers. Things start to turn for the worse as soon as Roemello finds a girl he want to settle down with, since she doesn't like the business he's in, and when his own brother Raynathan allowed an ex-boxer named Lolly (Ernie Hudson) into the business of selling the same territories as they were doing in which he'd pay them a very small 10 percentage of the profits. And then for feeling so 'high and mighty' Lolly then kills one of Skuggs men, and while Roemello is trying to cool things down, his brother Raynathan escalates the problem by taking out one of Lolly's best side man with more pointless babbling which can be helped by a quick press of a remote control since this is pretty standard stuff except that theirs less offensive language in this one as opposed to other African American gangster movies. I would've liked this movie more had this film been shortened big time since the actors are exceptional but the movie not so much.
More than two hours too long who as a pair of young brothers Roemello and Raynathan Skuggs, when they were little used to witness their own mother overdosing herself to death while the father almost killed himself for being an user himself and betraying an Italian family member lead by Gus (Abe Vigoda). The movie then jumps to the present time to the Skugg brothers to be the Wesley Snipes as the younger brother Roemello and Michael Wright as the older one Raynathan and are successful for doing what their father failed to do which is to be the #1 drug sellers of "Sugar Hill" which is really a part of Harlem and not to be the drug doers. Things start to turn for the worse as soon as Roemello finds a girl he want to settle down with, since she doesn't like the business he's in, and when his own brother Raynathan allowed an ex-boxer named Lolly (Ernie Hudson) into the business of selling the same territories as they were doing in which he'd pay them a very small 10 percentage of the profits. And then for feeling so 'high and mighty' Lolly then kills one of Skuggs men, and while Roemello is trying to cool things down, his brother Raynathan escalates the problem by taking out one of Lolly's best side man with more pointless babbling which can be helped by a quick press of a remote control since this is pretty standard stuff except that theirs less offensive language in this one as opposed to other African American gangster movies. I would've liked this movie more had this film been shortened big time since the actors are exceptional but the movie not so much.