Drop Squad

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The DROP squad is a fictional group of guerrilla deprogrammers, urban Black Panthers for the socially misguided. Eriq LaSalle, an ambitious advertising executive in a Madison Avenue firm who plays on offensive stereotypes to sell products to the black community, is their next target: they kidnap him off the streets and put him through a intensive, harrowing, and sometime violent regime of psychological battering to put him back in touch with his roots, Meanwhile, a struggle rages in the organization between its idealistic leader (Vondie Curtiss-Hall) and his aggressive right-hand man (Ving Rhames) over the direction the organization should take: the formerly nonviolent intervention has transformed into an elaborate, highly stylized form of psycho-drama only steps away from A Clockwork Orange. The cartoonish exaggeration of the flashbacks, blunt symbolism (from the icon-laden decor to names like Stokely, Garvey, and X for the DROP squad members), and preachy tone turn the film into a misguided circus that can't decide if it's social satire or political propaganda. Despite good performances throughout and a strong visual style, first-time director David Clark Johnson's feature fails to develop his provocative metaphors and promising concepts into a well thought-out drama. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

cool timely movie.......2006-08-21

this is a film that hardly got any buzz, but if you get a moment it should be checked out. it speaks about Race and how it is reflected within Black folks in this film when it comes to Dollars&Cents. it makes you think, there is comedy involved, but at the heart of the matter is a Message to wake up&know your past in order to understand the present&lead to the future.

An Early 90's Film That Slipped Past Me.......2005-01-24

I consider myself a pop culture know it all but this is one film that slipped past me until recently. "Drop Sqaud" is an early 90's film that stars a couple of up and coming actors who went on to be big stars such as Ving Rhames (Baby Boy), Eric La Salle (E.R.), Vanessa L. Williams (Soul Food the Showtime Series), and a couple of other well known African-American actors like the actor who portrayed the father on "Moesha" and others.

The Drop Squad is a pro-black group of young people who kidnap and attempt to brain wash, or reprogram other blacks who are no longer positive to the black community. They kidnap a drug dealer, a corrupt minister and a young marketing executive portrayed by Eriq La Salle. They kidnap him at his sisters request. At his job he doesn't stand up for the African-American people when negative ad campaigns are proposed. He is ashamed of his own family (with just cause for some members) and even refers to a cousin of his as a coon I believe.

Anyway, this film is entertaining. The Drop Squad uses very strange tactics for reprogramming, simulated lynching, yelling in peoples faces, imprisoning the kidnappees and lectures among other tactics. The Drop Squad members take things too far and start to get violent sometimes. Oh yeah, The Drop Squad is a top secret organization that is spread by whispers and word of mouth. At times, I thought I was watching a real B movie, something that no one else probably had heard of. The film will take you back to the early 90's. The editing was quite good the way that they cut from past to present and flashbacks. If you missed this one the first time around it's worth checking out on DVD, even if only to check out some of your favorite stars before they hit it big.

Shaking it over here boss!!!!.......2004-12-09

This movie was cool. it had its messages and has some good comedic moments.

Drop Squad.......2001-03-07

A Movie about a sell out black male. Who will do anything to make that money. He get's kidnapped by the drop squad. They try to strighten him out. Very Good movie! Bamboozled is another good one! Kind of the same concept.

This is my FAVORITE MOVIE of ALL TIME!!.......1998-11-26

Drop Squad is a great flick that addresses the negative mindsets that destroy the black community.Everything about this movie is excellent including the soundtrack (as all Spike Lee soundtracks are) The terrible thing though is that when this movie was in the 1st-run theaters,it's title conflicted with "Drop Zone" came out @ the same time,so it was pulled from many theaters.GET THIS FLICK!!

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