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Fresh Movie Review

Cast & Crew

Director : Boaz Yakin

Producer : Lawrence Bender, Randy Ostrow

Screenwriter : Boaz Yakin

Starring Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L Jackson, N'bushe Wright, Ron Brice, Jean Lamarre

Acclaimed, but why? Fresh is the nickname of the prototypical urban street punk (Sean Nelson), who runs drugs for the local hoods when he isn't busy attending dogfights, witnessing murders, visiting his prostitute sister, or playing chess with his homeless father in the park. Presumably, we are meant to sympathize with Fresh because he's a chess player, and hence an intellectual, but when he launches his plan to turn the tables on his drug bosses, it's hard to rally behind him. Extremely disturbing and unnecessarily violent, Fresh plays like Spike Lee for Dummies.

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7th November 2006 18:33 Fire Red (1)

	As usual another so called 'expert" without any film knowledge or common sense. First please, please go take a comprehensive history of film class. Study Truffant, study, Sweetback. I'm not just saying to look at dead white filmmakers. Study film! Then go live life! These comments can only come from someone who is either attempting to salvge feelings of what have "We not done for these people" That includes the middle class Blacks or neo-cons who say that no one lives this way without wanting to. Now, go look at Truffant's 400 Blows, tell me that you can not see the thread between these two films. This film is not about the joy of violence. It is what happens to the powerless when they learn how to win. Yet still lose because of the price at the end they pay. This is a powerful film, and a great first time effort from Boaz Yakin.