Walter Hill directs Bill Paxton, Ice T and Ice Cube in this action thriller where two looters find themselves under siege from a gang when they try to rob stolen gold on the wrong muthafucker’s turf.

“I told you that motherfucker was scandalous! Now we get to break him off some.” Starts strong but doesn’t fully capitalise on the potent set-up. Paxton and Cube are fantastic value making this a videoshop rental diamond. If you aren’t sure how this is all gonna end after the first half hour then you ain’t watched enough movies. At its most fun when it colours outside the lines of it simple muscular brief: the camcorder footage, the weird breakout moment midway through where the main characters start giving mini soliloquies direct to camera. Raymond the gun dealin’ fixer deserves his own spin-off. What if Mike Ehrmantraut was a flair player?!

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Perfect Double Bill: Judgment Night (1993)

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