The Hughes twins, Allen and Albert, can't wait to show you their eerie images of black gunmen in mimelike whiteface, but (flashback to 1968) it's a long and long-winded route to return to that point. The first half-hour, tracing the evolution of a decent young Bronxite from milkman to numbers runner to U.S. Marine, is almost useless. And the twenty-minute tour in Vietnam, though horrific in the Platoon mode, doesn't seem all that essential either. And it's still a long way -- trudging, trudging -- to the undermotivated and underplanned armored-car caper. A disappointing encore to Menace II Society, though not for lack of ambition. With Larenz Tate, Keith David. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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