Undercover Blues

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When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime. There's nothing to the dumb story about a deadly arms dealer (Fiona Shaw) in the Louisiana Bayou, but you'd be hard put to find a friskier pair of doting parents. Quaid is all dimpled grins and cocky cool and Turner is the most maternal martial arts mom you've ever seen, but Stanley Tucci almost steals the film as the hot-blooded threat thug Morty ("That's Muerte!"). His macho mission of vengeance becomes pure slapstick silliness punctuated by girlish squeals of alarm. Dumb? Sure, but the deft comic direction of Herbert Ross and bubbly chemistry of Quaid and Turner make Undercover Blues far more fun that it should be. --Sean Axmaker

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Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid are "in top form [in] this winning comedy" (The Hollywood Reporter) about a couple of super spies persuaded out of maternity leave and into world-class espionage action! Co-starring Stanley Tucci, Park Overall and Tom Arnold, and set in atmospheric New Orleans, Undercover Blues is "guaranteed to leave you giddy and grateful" (The Houston Post)! Jeff and Jane Blue (Quaid and Turner) are the doting parents of a new baby girl. They also happen to be America's best chance at national security. Just as they embark on that perilous adventure known as parenting, they are asked to save the world from a treacherous arms embezzler. But are their martial-arts skills, cunning and high-tech know-how any match for a diabolic terrorist and aten-pound tyrant?

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Hilarious.......2007-08-07

This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. If you like a good comedy, you'll love this. Everyone I know, who has seen this, gives it a thumbs up. You can't go wrong with this one.

A Keeper!.......2007-05-14

This is one of our favorite comedies. We quote lines from it all the time; "I saw it on PB-eus", "Tah-tah", "Mah name es Muerte-death". All the characters are cast well and the plot is fun. Where recent films are over once you've seen the trailer this one can be enjoyed over and over. It looks like everyone had a good time with it. The only sad thing is that it is set in New Orleans as it was before Katrina.

Overlooked "Undercover Blues".......2007-04-30

1993's "Undercover Blues" pairs up Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner as recently retired spies and new parents, on maternity leave in New Orleans. Their characters seem unable, however, to avoid muggers, run-ins with skeptical police, and their former bosses, who want them to do one last mission. Despite their best efforts, they become enmeshed in an arms smuggling plot while juggling child care and the local police, who think they are criminals.

Lest this seem like a less than promising storyline, execution is everything. A persistant but hapless mugger, played to perfection by Stanley Tucci, tries to be a tough guy but repeatedly falls prey to the superior skills of Quaid and Turner and to his own clumsiness. Quaid and Turner thmeselves seem to a practiced routine down for every form of danger, from generating an instant but convincing cover story for each encounter with the police, to fending off muggers with martial arts and a baby carriage, to derailing the arms smuggling plot with comedic finese. Tom Arnold adds to the comedy in a nice supporting role.

This movie is highly recommended as an entertaining venture featuring lots of physical comedy and some believable chemistry between Quaid and Turner.

The kind of movie you can see over and over again and it's still funny!.......2007-03-30

This is one of the funniest movies ever! My family and I watch it over and over again and we still laugh...and we've been watching it for years! I highly recommend this movie...I can't say enough good things about it.

Great movie.......2007-03-08

Easy watching flick. Not Turners greatest work. She seems very wooden at times. The running gag with Stanley Tucci is great. "My name is death. Don't you forget that scum hawks!" Tom Arnold is funny as the midwest dork. Watch for a bit part by Dave Chapplle as Ozzie the thief. Very enjoyable.

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A true cinema classic
Excellent Inner City Crime Flick
We will own this f****n city!
Bad Ass...Nuff Said...
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ASIN: 6305047480
Release Date: 1998-08-25

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Some pundits called it a flawed, exploitative action film that glamorized drug dealing and the luxury of a lucrative criminal lifestyle, spawning a trend of films that attracted youth gangs and provoked violence in theaters. Others hailed it as a breakthrough movie that depicted drug dealers as ruthless, corrupt, and evil, leading dead-end lives that no rational youth would want to emulate. However you interpret it, New Jack City is still one of the first and best films of the 1990s to crack open the underworld of cocaine and peer inside with its eyes wide open. It's also the film that established Wesley Snipes as an actor to watch, with enough charisma to bring an insidious quality of seduction to his role as coke-lord Nino Brown, and enough intelligence to portray a character deluded by his own sense of indestructible power. Director Mario Van Peebles stretched his otherwise-limited talent to bring vivid authenticity and urgency to this crime story, and subplots involving a pair of tenacious cops (Ice-T, Judd Nelson) and a recovering coke addict (Chris Rock) provide additional dramatic tension. Although some critics may hesitate to admit it, New Jack City deserves mention in any serious discussion about African American filmmakers and influential films. --Jeff Shannon

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A true cinema classic.......2007-06-22

When I first saw this movie, I can honestly say that it delivered on all aspects of the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. Mario Van Peebles did a wonderful job, and Wesley Snipes was outstanding. Ice T, phenomenal. Two other great actors in this film would have to be Christopher Williams, and Vanessa Williams. I personally recommend this film to all.

Excellent Inner City Crime Flick.......2005-12-21

This motion picture is about the crack cocaine epidemic and the devastating impact that it had on life in the inner city. This is a tough and uncompromising movie.

The main character in New Jack City is Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes), the leader of the Cash Money Brothers (CMB) gang that is one of the biggest crack cocaine trafficking outfits in New York City (NYC). Together with his partner Gee Money (Allen Payne), Brown lives a glamorous life of luxury, fast cars and hot chicks. To put it mildly, Brown is a poor role model for inner city youth.

As Brown's CMB empire grows, he becomes ever more arrogant. The CMB takes over an apartment building and evicts the inhabitants, including an elderly World War II veteran. The CMB is becoming big, fat and out of control. The CMB is hell bent on contaminating the NYC inner city scene. Brown even dreams of taking down the Mafia so that the CMB can become the dominant organized crime gang in NYC. Brown initiates action against the Mafia and scores some success. The shootouts between the CMB and the Mafia are very well done.

Eventually, the top brass at the New York Police Department (NYPD) wake up to the CMB menace and resolve to do something about it. Two of its best detectives, Scotty Appleton (Ice-T) and Nick Peretti (Judd Nelson) are assigned to the case. The detecting duo get a big break when they come in contact with a druggie named Pookie (Chris Rock). The detectives put Pookie on the road to recovery and Pookie agrees to infiltrate the CMB for the NYPD.

New Jack City is a most interesting movie. On the surface, it is just another cops and drug dealers movie, but it is really more than that. It is a tough, realistic portrayal of the damage wrought to the inner city by the crack cocaine epidemic. It presents an involving story with a strong anti-drug message. This movie really makes clear just how bad the drug problem is in the inner city and how illegal drugs have ravaged the community.

New Jack City is a well executed movie. It features strong performances by such actors as Ice-T and Wesley Snipes, who have generally not made strong performances on other movies. It has a strong script and an involving plot. It probably should have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, yet it was not even nominated for an Oscar in any category. This was because, for all its great points, New Jack City was generally regarded by both the critics and the Hollywood elite as a "black" movie and as such unworthy of being considered as legitimate cinema irregardless of how much money it earned for its releasing studio.

This movie was both entertaining and educational in that it taught this country's youth the dangers of drugs and how it
leads to a person's downfall. The message of this film was plain and simple: Crack cocaine can destroy a person's life and damage the lives of others. If we do not continue to fight the war on drugs, then drugs will continue to destroy our country.

We will own this f****n city!.......2005-12-20

No disrespect to those who say this movie is unrealistic but.....it was supposed to take place in a time when crack had first blown up. People were wearing big ass gold chains and all the dealers with this "new" product were blowing up. maybe not a rapidly as shown but, be for real, how much can you show in a 2 hour movie? A rip off of scarface? come on.....80% of the movies made had taken some aspect of another movie and tried to expand on it. New Jack did a pretty good job at that. Solid cast, good action, and brutality that really wasn't shown too much in movies back then. And don't even front.......Half of you who gunned down this movie probably went out and bought that same blue suit that Nino was rockin. And leave Ice T alone. True, he's not the best actor, but this was his breakthrough role and the man did okay. And as for the reviewer who made the statement about "cop killer now playing a cop", boy please.......I could only imagine what you would do on film if the money was right. But this all is just my opinion. See the flick and form your own. 4 stars.

Bad Ass...Nuff Said..........2005-10-20

Gotta love this one, enough Violence, Drugs, & "F" bombs to saticfy almost anyone! No, seriously, it really is a good movie. But i'm not gonna ramble on for 50 paragraphs like some [...] on why you should rent this. Just do it, and if not...it's your loss! now f*** off!

New Jack Review.......2005-09-15

This DVD took forever to get here;but it was well worth the wait.
New Jack City is A modern day classic it put Wesley Snipes on the
radar screen.This DVD is clear no jumps no static well worth the
discount price I paid for it.If you like NJC Amazon is the place to buy it.Patience will save you A lot of moola.

New Jack City (Two-Disc Special Edition)

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NEW JACK CITY
seen it all before...
If you've seen the 1932 Scarface, the 1983 Scarface, and remember the 90's well then you have a good grip on the film
Mario Van Peebles found a great criminal in Wesley Snipes!
Black Scarface

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ASIN: B0009UZGR8
Release Date: 2005-08-23

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Just as cool and topical today as when it first opened, New Jack City stars Wesley Snipes as the angel-of-death crack kingpin who holds a city in his grasp. Ice T, Judd Nelson and Mario Van Peebles (who also directs) play police officers who lay it all on the line. Chris Rock and Vanessa Williams co-star. A dynamic cutting-edge soundtrack includes tunes by Ice T, Queen Latifah, 2 Live Crew and more.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by Director/Co-Star Mario Van Peebles
Documentaries:New Jack City: A Hip-Hop Classic: Artists, radio personalities and other hip-hop icons show their respect for the movie that brought the streets to the big screen. New Jack City: Harlem World: Mario Van Peebles checks out the sights and sounds of the Black Capital of America. Harlem World: A Walk Inside: an inside look at the city of Harlem.
Music Video:New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme) by Ice T I'm Dreamin' by Christopher Williams I Wanna Sex You Up by Color me Badd
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NEW JACK CITY.......2007-05-13

The DVD's were shipped promptly, was packaged very well, watched the movie the same night I received it. No complaints here.

seen it all before..........2007-04-30

Very little that's original here. I just don't see it as being some kind of classic.
There is a scene at the beginning where the main lead and his cohorts decide to put all the crack activity in one building: the making, the selling, etc. and one of the honcho's people says: "That's ingenius."

Huh? What's ingenius about it? If the cops assaulted the place you'd lose everything, the whole shebang, all at once. Why make it easier for the authorities? I doubt that drug lords are that dumb in real life. Certainly, some are--the proof is there, but someone as the character portrayed by Wesley Snipes? I doubt it.. I mean the film lost me right there, not to mention the fact that we have seen so many of the scenes in other films that came before it.

The flick just didn't grab me. Also, Judd Nelson, usually very good, seemed lost in the shuffle here--due to lack of focus by the director.

Not to mention: it's truly annoying when filmmakers go around praising their film and telling you how GREAT they think it is.

You know what? That's for the audiance to decide. A little modesty goes a long way. This director doesn't seem to know the meaning of the word.

If you've seen the 1932 Scarface, the 1983 Scarface, and remember the 90's well then you have a good grip on the film.......2007-02-08

I've only seen this movie quite recently after hearing about it for years and being told that it's a must see. While actually viewing the movie my opinions were mixed but afterwards everything slid into focus. On the technical side of the movie the directing and editing were nothing new or original, Mario Van Peebles played everything straight out of a textbook and the pacing didn't create any great flow. Most of the acting was far from award winning but not so bad as to distract from the movie itself, for any real length of time at least. Everything about the quality and look of the film screams early 90's, but in an endearing manner. As far as the films influences go, the 1983 version of "Scarface" is the most acknowledged and the one film that this movie will probably be compared to for the rest of its rememberance. However I began to notice something very quickly at the heart of the movie and with the blurb about drugs and drug dealers in America at the end, it became clear that the 1932 "Scarface: Shame of the Nation" had just as large of a part in the shaping of this movie, it serves basically as a PSA to America. This also may account for why everything technically seemed very plain and stereotypical (mind you with very high production value). Take these two movies, throw in a dash of "Cops", a very pop show at the time, add in a lot of the earliest mainstream MC's and you have New Jack City. A movie that still holds appeal after more than 15 years and an eclectic piece of 90's cinema that makes a decent viewing.

Mario Van Peebles found a great criminal in Wesley Snipes!.......2007-01-25

"Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a s*** about color."-Nick Perrti

I first saw this in 1993 and was totally blown away by the directing, cinematography, script and acting and so I was really looking forward to seeing it again after an absence of almost thirteen years. But after seeing this a second time, I could scarcely believe I was watching a film I had remembered very well. In 1994 I would have given this film 5 out of 5 but instead I've given it a 4 due to its frail ending.

New Jack City (1991) is an interesting movie that aims to please. This film marks the first time Mario Van Peebles directed a theatrical released film (that his father helped co-write) and he co-stars in the film as well. The movie follows a small time hood Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) who builds up a vast criminal empire by flooding the streets with crack cocaine. Ice-T and Judd Nelson co-stars as well as two unorthodox cops who want to lock up Nino Brown. Allen Payne (Gee Money) and Mario van Peebles himself (Stone) has also giving some approved performances in here.

The acting is not the strongest part of this film but to me, three men made this film worthy of attention which is Wesley, Ice-T, and Rock. Chris Rock is unforgettable in this movie and he shines in his role as the "crack-head" Pookie. He has so many one-liners that are hysterical funny. The real winner is truly Wesley Snipes, who plays a role we don't usually identify with him, and does so with considerable spirit. He is utterly believable; the scene where he describes first killing someone while high on drugs scared the crap out of me - this is not someone I want as a friend! - Which happens to be a central theme of this film.

There are flaws in it to be sure, primarily of continuity - there are moments for which we are unprepared, and loose ends that don't get tied. The "Cash Money" drug cartel never gets its act together as a criminal organization - which may be the point, but in which case this needs greater exploration on the street level - without soldiers, you have no army, a lesson the Mafia could still teach the younger gangs. But taken all-in-all, "New Jack City" is a tough crime thriller, well-presented, with a great cast at their strongest. Despite it flaws, it holds a lot of strong and impressive moments which makes this worth a watch.

Black Scarface.......2006-11-17

One movie that I will probably remember from the 1990s the best is "New Jack City." It tells the story of how Nino Brown (played by Wesely Snipes) and his crew, CMB (Cash Money Brothers) rose to power as crack kingpins by running their operation out of a apartment complex that they take over. I was 2 when I first saw this movie, so I thought that New Jack City was a real place. When I got older I realized that it was New York City when I saw the Statue of Liberty in the opening sequence. People can argue that is movie is another Scarface for many reasons:

1. The dude starts to sell drugs after his homeboy puts him up on game
2. He blows up and becomes sucessful
3. Everything starts to go downhill
4. He kills his best friend
5. He himself gets killed

Those are some of the ways that New Jack City compares but this is how they contrast:

1. Nino is black while Tony is Cuban
2. It shows the devestation that crack did to people who used it and the communities while Scarface just shows the glitz and glamor of Miami
3. It shows the cops struggle to get crack off the streets. While Scarface barely shows Tony making any coke deals at all.
4. It deals with betrayal.

The music also makes the movie good too. It contains songs from co-stars Ice T and Chris Williams. A hip-hop classic in every since of the word

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GREAT GANSTA MOVIE!
Blue hill Avenue
Another pretty good urban drama.
A low-budget, black GOODFELLAS. Unoriginal, but entertaining.
Straight Gangsta

Bluehill Avenue
Starring: W.B. Alexander , Dana Bair , Angelle Brooks , Percy Daggs III , and Andrew Divoff
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ASIN: B0000JBUHI
Release Date: 2003-12-23

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Growing up in the rough Roxbury neighborhood in Boston, four childhood friends find their dreams come true too easily, and too quickly, through dealing drugs... but the repercussions are deadly.

Features:

Full Screen Version
Deleted Scenes with Commentary
Audio Commentary with Craig Ross, Jr., Director; William L. Johnson (E-Bone); Aaron D. Spears (Money)
Behind-the-Scenes/Final Shot Comparisons
The "Blue Hill" Interview
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Run Time: 120 Min

Format: DVD MOVIE

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GREAT GANSTA MOVIE!.......2007-08-16

I WOULD RECOMMENED ANY ONE WHO IS A FAN OF BLACK GANGSTA MOVIES TO BUY OR WATCH THIS. ITS A GREAT MOVIE THAT SHOWS HOW 4 BOYZ STARTED THEIR STREET HUSTLE WHEN THE WERE YOUNG AND CONTINUED UNTIL THEY WERE OLDER AND IT WAS TIME TO TAKE OVER THE STREET. GREAT MOVIE!

Blue hill Avenue.......2007-07-15

Excellent movie. Being a resident of Rhode Island and spending much time in Boston, I certainly related to this movie. Outstanding performance expecially bt Alan Payne.

Another pretty good urban drama........2007-07-03

Allen Payne did a pretty good job playing a hit man slash drug dealer in this urban drama 21st century classic. Even though he'll mostly be remembered for his roles in such films as "New Jack City and Jason's Lyric", he still showed a little bit of more range as an actor in this film. I was pretty pleased with this movie and i personally think it is worth having in one's archives.

A low-budget, black GOODFELLAS. Unoriginal, but entertaining........2007-03-09

Director Craig Ross seems inspired by Martin Scorsese. As in GOODFELLAS and CASINO, Ross's BLUEHILL AVENUE charts the rise and fall of gansters. Ross also uses similar filmic techniques. He introduces many peripheral characters, panning over them as they work in their growing drug trade; a voice-over explains in detail each person's role in the crime operation. And it's a long film, epic length at 127 minutes.

BLUEHILL AVENUE is low budget, and it shows. The art direction and special effects aren't as "big" as in CASINO. Yet despite its smallness, BLUEHILL AVENUE isn't shabby. The acting is first rate. The writing is sharp. The cinematography is moody and textured. This is no direct-to-video cheapie with bad acting and flat lighting.

The film lost me in some places, mostly where it seemed torn between a gritty realism and hyper-stylized violence. For instance, much of the film opts for the gritty realism of a Scorsese film. But then there's a shootout, and BLUEHILL AVENUE forgets its realism, opting instead for a hyper-stylized battle where the outnumbered "good guys" are ambushed and outgunned, yet still manage to kill all the baddies, without suffering even a flesh wound.

That sort of fantasy shootout may work for Shaft or James Bond, but it undermines the realism that BLUEHILL AVENUE had set up.

This is a guy's film. Despite her prominent billing, Angelle Brooks's role is minor. Mostly she worries about her hubby, and nags him to quick the gang.

BLUEHILL AVENUE is not a great film, and certainly not original. At times its sharp dialog verges on the cliche. Yet it's a well made film, polished and entertaining.

Straight Gangsta.......2006-10-04

This movie was off the hook. It's like a gangsta story and a coming of age story combined. The first time I saw it I caught it in the middle, but it still caught my attention. It the story of 4 friends and their rise to power as crack kingpins in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. Along the way they face family crisis, crooked police and rivial gangs. The ending wasn't picture perfect, but it still was good. You just got see it for yourself to find out.

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Eurofilm, with outstanding results based on budget and technology of 70's
Try It, But You Won't Get Hooked

The Heroin Busters
Starring: Sherry Buchanan , Romano Puppo , Fabio Testi , David Hemmings , and Joshua Sinclair
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ASIN: B000EQ5UA0
Release Date: 2006-04-25

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SEX, VIOLENCE AND A KICKASS SCORE BY GOBLIN ALL FULLY RESTORED FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN AMERICA!

Fabio Testi (THE BIG RACKET, CONTRABAND) stars as a cold-blooded cop gone deep undercover to take down an international drug syndicate. But when a hair-trigger Interpol agent (David Hemmings of BLOW-UP, DEEP RED and GLADIATOR fame) joins the investigation, the case takes a deadly detour into sexual depravity and sudden violence. Can two tough detectives trapped in a criminal underworld now stay alive long enough to ignite a citywide massacre?

Sherry Buchanan (ZOMBIE HOLOCAUST) co-stars in this action-packed thriller - with an unforgettable motorcycle and airplane chase climax - co-written and directed by Enzo G. Castellari (HIGH CRIME, INGLORIOUS BASTARDS), featuring a pounding score by legendary prog-rockers Goblin (SUSPIRIA, DAWN OF THE DEAD) and now transferred from the original camera negative.

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Eurofilm, with outstanding results based on budget and technology of 70's.......2007-03-22

HEROIN BUSTERS, or translated literally from the Italian, "The
Drug Avenue" (la Via della Droga), is a fascinating,
action-packed movie, pulling all the stops for thrills and
action, not excluding plenty of gun-shooting, in a race between
the criminal element and law enforcement. There's motorcycle,
airplane and car chases around Italy on land, foot and air.

The action is dubbed in English, in an extremely fluent,
understandable manner.

The success of this movie, is that it is outstanding in its
quality considering the "technology" that was at the director's
disposal at the time. Obviously, the Hollywood studios, with
100's of millions of USD greater budgets, and with technology 20
years newer than at the time the film was made, create products
these days that are measurably different. But are they really
that much better ? Some things never change, such as the human
species, emotion, and the cultural, economic and social aspects
of a country, whether it by Italy, USA, etc.

Having been filmed in Europe, in 1977, anyone with memories of
hat era, will judge as occasionally comical the immediately
recognizable FIAT vehicle models of the time, and others (such
as Citroen 2 Horse Power, FIAT, small compact Fords, etc.), the
presentation of outdoor and indoor cafes, pinball machines,
cobble stone roads, and overall landscape scenes from the
Italian countryside, that are almost identical to those found in
Spain, and Portugal.

The soundtrack is extremely well chosen, as well, with a few
repetitive riffs, reminiscent of the 70's heavy metal scene,
such as Yngwie Malmsteen's style or Black Sabbath, or Jean Luc
Ponty's more fusion jazz elements.

The opener is somewhat provocative to perhaps those residing
outside the major agglomerations, by depicting the red light
district major metropolises around the world, such as those of
Tokyo, Amsterdam, Thailand or Hong Kong, New York, London, and
from there, progresses to show a certain marginal element of
society. These are outside of the mainstream, consuming and
trafficking at times heroin, visibly. The marketing aspect is
also touched upon, by a character admitting that free drugs were
supplied to school kids to get them hooked from an early age
into the substances, not unlike major American and multinational
corporations give away free comic books, DVD's, breakfast cereal
with other propaganda, to impart in their minds a brand loyalty
that will pay off bigtime when the kids become breadwinners and
adults.

Considering the outstanding results the director obtained with
the budget and technology available in 1977, the cast can be
proud of the results, as it's cool enough for the DVD to be
pulled out a few times again, considering the extremely sharp
digital filming, stimulating story. As a bonus, there's a
director commentary in the extras.

Try It, But You Won't Get Hooked.......2006-07-04

Heroin Busters is one of a few recent Enzo Castellari action flicks put out by Blue Underground...and it's not so hot. It's not bad exactly, it's just kinda boring. I watched it all the way through, and it has it's moments, but for the mostpart it's just kinda flat. Italian action star/prettyboy Fabio Testi is an undercover cop in the middle of a sting in the international heroin underworld. The immortal David Hemmings is his partner, and the only cop who knows that Testi's undercover. The whole film is pretty much a step by step drug dealing sting with no real excitement or drama. Like I said, it's not terrible, but you begin to wonder when something cool's gonna happen. Things do pick up a bit in the last act when Testi's cover's blown and he's on the run from the dealers who want revenge, but by that time it's too little too late. The film ends with probably the most boring plane chase ever put on film. Testi's fun to watch as usual. Hemmings is good, but ultimately his role is kinda...not pointless exactly, but he just doesn't really have much to do. Castellari has definitely made better. Street Law is a good example.

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Hilarious
A Keeper!
Overlooked "Undercover Blues"
The kind of movie you can see over and over again and it's still funny!
Great movie

Undercover Blues
Starring: Kathleen Turner , Dennis Quaid , Fiona Shaw , Stanley Tucci , and Larry Miller
Director: Herbert Ross
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ASIN: 6304411472
Release Date: 1994-08-08

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Kathleen Turner and Dennis Quaid are an unlikely couple in this unfortunate attempt at a comedy thriller. They play a pair of married spies who have taken parental leave and are vacationing in New Orleans with their year-old son. But they're called back into action to stop the sale of a shipment of stolen weapons. Ho-hum. Though both the leads have preternaturally cheery dispositions, it can't translate to the soggy script. The action is formulaic and the jokes nonexistent. The film's only bright spot: Stanley Tucci as a bumbling assassin whose wild streak of bad luck enlivens his numerous welcome appearances. --Marshall Fine

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Hilarious.......2007-08-07

This is one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. If you like a good comedy, you'll love this. Everyone I know, who has seen this, gives it a thumbs up. You can't go wrong with this one.

A Keeper!.......2007-05-14

Overlooked "Undercover Blues".......2007-04-30

The kind of movie you can see over and over again and it's still funny!.......2007-03-30

Great movie.......2007-03-08

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Best Movie Ive Ever Seen

The Cop In Blue Jeans
Starring: Tomas Milian , Jack Palance , Maria Rosaria Omaggio , Toni Ucci , and Alberto Longoni
Director: Bruno Corbucci
Manufacturer: Westlake Budget
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ASIN: B0000A03KF
Release Date: 2003-06-01

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Detective Nico Giraldi(Thomas Milian) goes undercover to investigate a series of purse snatching committed by Baron(Guido Mannari) and his violent motorcycle gang. When on of the thieves steals $5 million dollars from a wealthy, but corrupt, American businessman (Jack Palance), the murders begin, In the mane of justice. The cop in blus jeans bring down both villainous empires!

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Best Movie Ive Ever Seen.......2006-01-10

The Cop in Blue Jeans--an amazing film of epic proportions. For 92 full minutes, you are brought on an emotional roller coaster into the heart of a "city gone mad." Despite being done on a low budget, the acting and special effects are surprisingly great, here. All the extra blue and green colors really bring about the feeling of a small oceanside tow. The two main characters have wonderfully developed, rich personalities that play off of eachother well.

The plot moves along at a groundbreaking pace, as the simple policeman is introduced to the evil Jack Palance...with deadly results. Overall, this is a great piece of detective filmwork, and a true testament to 1970's film making.

They may be cops, but they're guilty of being hillarious!

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very good Hong Kong action thriller
Blacker than night
a lot of twists and turns
what a good movie......
Lau Ching Wan rocks!

Longest Nite
Starring: Ching Wan Lau , Tony Leung Chiu Wai , Maggie Siu , Hoi-Pang Lo , and Fong Lung
Director: Tat-Chi Yau
Manufacturer: Blue Jackel
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ASIN: B00000INCP
Release Date: 1999-05-25

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very good Hong Kong action thriller.......2006-09-13

The movie will not make a whole lot of sense at the start but gets moving along pretty quick.

Tony Leung Chia Wai plays a bad cop who has to find out who is trying to kill this crime boss. Everthing is explained at the start but it changes real quick. Lau Ching Wan comes in as a mystery man and we eventually find out why he is here. Lau puts on another great acting performance in this.

I have to say that there is not really anything I can think of that would have made this movie better. Acting was top notch, directing job was great, cinematography was great. Like when Lau Ching Wan is sitting down in a room and has a ball that he throws against the wall and lets it just fly by his face. The music was great and fit the movie really well and the end of the film even had me thinking for a while. I guess the main reason I liked it is because I really like dark films, so turn off the lights for this.

The DVD released from Universal Laser Disc and Video Comapany/Tai Seng has a press conference, behind the scenes, and other stuff I couldn't understand because there is no English subtitels on the extras. The bloopers were still fun to watch though. The 5.1 sound is very good, very food job of subtitling, and a good widescreened picture that is pretty much perfect.

Blacker than night.......2005-06-19

The Longest Nite is a very, VERY dark Hong Kong thriller starring Tony Leung as an extremely bad cop having an extremely bad night - you know, the usual round of smashing hoodlums' gun hands, torturing suspects and witnesses alike, finding a headless body in his apartment with a locker number written on its hand, being set up to kill the crimelord he works for: probably all in day's work in Macau.

While the first 20 minutes or so are very grim and exceptionally merciless, when the plot kicks in and the wheels start turning and the fingers start pointing, it actually becomes a gripping little number, with one quite superb sequence at a ferry station as the walls start to come crashing down on our anti-hero. Sadly the last 20 minutes are average shoot-em-up stuff that lacks the ingenuity of the central sting, but if you can stomach the violence it's well worth a look. Leung in particular is ideally cast - he has the perfect hangdog face for this kind of character, conveying world-weariness, confusion and desperation without seeming to need to make any effort.

a lot of twists and turns.......2004-09-09

I've know about Tont Leung for awhile now and know that he is a superb chinese actor. He was the undercover cop in the movie "Hardboiled" with Chow Yun Fat. In this movie he is cool, as other reviewers have noted, he plays a corrupt cop. You really have to pay attention watching this movie. The little details such as phone numbers of a restaurant and the number written on a hand of a headless corpse. My favorite part is where the assasin tells Sam that he'll know what will happen in an hour, talk about suspense. This movie was made in 1998 is I'am not mistaken. The languages that are only available for this movie are cantonese and mandarin. The pace that the subtitles appear is a bit fast, becomes even more important because there is no wasted dialog in this movie. Longest nite is a bit violent, Sam likes to snap off fingernails as a form of torture and he is generally sadistic.

what a good movie.............2002-08-14

Tony Leung is Sam, a bad cop who's caught in a gang war in Macao. he works for Brother K, who's in negotiations with rival triad boss Lung to join forces after a long-running feud. And then there's a word on the street that Lung's life is equal to five million. And the bold stranger( Lau Ching Wan) comes in thepicture then it gets worse....

Disturbingly violent, perfect pace, and very involving plot. There are more twist in this movie than L.A. Confidential, etc.

Lau Ching Wan rocks!.......2001-12-21

This is Lau Ching Wan at his best. This film is another reason why he has proclaimed the acting crown of Chow Yun Fat once he left Hong Kong to do movies in the US. Many of Lau Ching Wan's movies have him characterized as the cool cop you would wanna hang with or the lovable hard-on-his-luck guy that girls can't help [but]feel something for. In the Longest Nite, he is just a pure bad-ass with a bald head. The taxi scene and his conversation in his holding cell with Tony Leung are worth the purchase of this movie alone! DO buy it!

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Interesting and entertaining if low budget

Blue Steel
Starring: Hank Bell , George Cleveland , Earl Dwire , George "Gabby" Hayes , and Eleanor Hunt
Director: Robert North Bradbury
Manufacturer: Genius Entertainment
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ASIN: B0003JAOEK
Release Date: 2004-01-01

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Interesting and entertaining if low budget.......2006-03-04

This "B" western was made over 70 years ago and it was how John Wayne got his start before appearing in longer and bigger budgetted movies like "Stagecoach" and "The Searchers". Wayne used to make 6 to 8 of these a year and they were real "quickies". If you watch this with the right frame of mind and you're not expecting too much, you'll find it worthwhile. It's over in an hour too. Lots of fistfights and chases on horseback and not a lot of dialogue in this and many of the B Westerns of the day. 3.5 Stars.

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Funny Adult Movie!

The Lady in Blue
Starring: Kira Reed
Director: Michael Paul Girard
Manufacturer: York Home Video
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ASIN: B00005UQA8
Release Date: 2002-02-12

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Funny Adult Movie!.......2002-09-07

I saw this movie back in 1997, about a year after it's initial release. It is one of the very few "soft" adult movies that I have seen in a long time that I really like. The plot consists of a lady police officer that is trying to solve a case of a love triangle. The lead character (Kira Reed) is so funny in her demeanor and narration throughout the movie. The sex scenes could be edited from this movie and it would still be funny to watch! If you like adult movies that aren't too graphic, and with tongue-in-cheek humour thrown in, then this movie is for you!

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