Belly | | Cast : | DMX, Nas, Taral Hicks, Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins, Method Man | | Director : | Hype Williams | | Studio : | Lions Gate Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound | | Released Date : | November 04, 1998 | | DVD Released Date : | January 20, 2004 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 10, 2005 | | Summary | OH NO! a [RAP] music video director is doing a movie. hahah | Content
 | Thank you Hype Williams! For the perfect, creative and unique visuals... and AT LAST some better than decent music too! (hip-hop not hip-popular) I cant stress enough the importance of this film. The plot did skip around a little, but God forbid someone use their imagination.
Who better to play the urban thug than DMX? (No). Nas does his thing keepin' it true and humble with street knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Together with their team they take the drug game into full effect causing death, sex, money and scandal. I thought the New Years ending was perfect, intriguing and relatable to the interested viewer. Beautiful speach from the Minister.
Legendary movie and artists, id say second best to Heat third being scarface (in my opinion). If only Big and Tupac could've done a piece together like this one. There is a dope Jamaican song they play on the film but isn't on the soundtrack by Sister Nancy called Bam Bam if anyone was wondering.. PEACE. |
| Rating | | | Date | August 09, 2005 | | Summary | Good movie | Content
| This is a good movie choppy at some points but very realistic as to what its like growing up in NY in the 90's. loved the cinemtography critics panned it but who listens to critics?
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| Rating | | | Date | March 27, 2005 | | Summary | Dreadful movie directorial debut for Hype Williams | Content
| Wow what a horrible movie! No disrespect to Mr. Williams but stick to music videos. He's obviously way out of his league here. The editing was choppy, the plot was erratic, and the cast under achieved. You have a strong cast featuring three of the best rappers in Nas, DMX, and Method Man. Nas was the only character that did well but he couldn't save this movie. DMX just wasn't right though and Method Man wasn't in the movie enough. And the whole thing about selling drugs in Omaha and the Jamaican connection made no sense what so ever. If you want great drug movies to watch, check out Scarface, Blow, and Empire. This movie doesn't have the calibur of those movies at all. Anyone who plans to see this movie may god help your soul! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 20, 2005 | | Summary | changes | Content
| This movie is gangsta, dmx and nas are ill together. One (nas) is leanin over to change more then the other (dmx). The movie was a little hard to follow if your not familar with people from the gutter and what they do to survive. I like the fact that nas made it out of his struggles he's a smart man even smarter in hip hop. The ending is kind of left up to you, the only way to explain it is to go see it. It's worth buying... |
| Rating | | | Date | December 31, 2004 | | Summary | This is a good movie... | Content
| 2 things I will gove the people who don't like the movie is Nas and scattered plot....
Nas isn't a good actor, I didn't really feel is performance. He seemed a little too sluggish/apathetic toward his character and though that might be how he is in real life it really didnt do much for the movie.
The scenes go from here to there without much explanation. You really got to watch it more than once. If you aren't braindead you can capture what is going on. But it does confuse a little bit your first time...
Other than thoose two arguments this movie is exeptional. DMX was fantastic. I thought method man was great in it. Some of the characters are really cool because they are unordinary.
The special edition part is pretty much retareded. It's really not that special.
But belly is a good movie! My fav.s include "Juice", and "Bullet" and I recommend these movies if you like belly. Peace. |
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