Drug lord wants out. "I'm consumed by chaos, consumed by guilt, consumed by grief," he confides to us in voice-over. A sensitive, pensive drug lord, not your normal one. And not your normal movie about one. Mopey when it wants to be brooding; maudlin when it wants to be deeply feeling (the black-and-white flashbacks do not get us any deeper); though of course unerringly brutal when it wants to be brutal. Still, any movie that's set in the Harlem of the 1990s and takes its musical cue from a crawling, creeping jazz trumpet (Terence Blanchard's) instead of from rappers and hip-hoppers deserves credit for trying something different. With Wesley Snipes, Michael Wright, Theresa Randle, Ernie Hudson, Clarence Williams III; directed by Leon Ichaso. (1994) — Duncan Shepherd
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