Hoodlum

Name: Hoodlum
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: August 27, 1997
Duration: 130 min
Rating: 50
Cast: Andy Garcia, Cicely Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams

1997

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Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: August 27, 1997 | R

Starring: Andy Garcia, Cicely Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams

Summary: This gangster film is set in 1930's Harlem.

Director: Bill Duke

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 130 min

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Duke is a superb director of actors, and, as in "Deep Cover", Fishburne manages to suggest a lot with a deft economy of means. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

The director, Bill Duke ("A Rage in Harlem"), stages all of this with proficient confidence, yet he never truly summons the operatic power of the genre -- the pulp tragedy of ambition built on (and drowned in) blood. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Duke and his screenwriter, Chris Brancato, don't make Hoodlum into a violent action film, though it has its bloody shoot-outs, but into more of a character study. Read full review

Liam Lacey

Duke rarely operates at more than a TV movie-of-the-week level of originality, but Hoodlum is still an easy movie to enjoy. Read full review

Stephen Holden

And while Mr. Duke's direction has visual panache, the movie is unevenly paced. Read full review

Marc Savlov

At the very least, Hoodlum might have been better off had it been filmed in monochromatic black-and-white instead of the garish color palette (and plenty of gore) that Duke opted for because they, unfortunately, only reinforce the hamminess of the picture. Read full review

Keith Phipps

A conclusion featuring a dizzying string of betrayals that leads to a confusing anti-climax robs the film of even cheap action thrills, making Hoodlum an almost thoroughly forgettable experience, albeit probably the only film in history to unite Queen Latifah and The Mod Squad's Clarence Williams III. Read full review

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JesseB.

Jul 20, 2006

The onlt reason it got a 1 was for the cast. I am a mafia history buff and felt that the Dutch Schultz story was long over due. All the appaling historic inaccuracies made me curse. Plus the movie was boring and vapid taboot. Hoodlum should have never been made, it should be outlawed and The onlt reason it got a 1 was for the cast. I am a mafia history buff and felt that the Dutch Schultz story was long over due. All the appaling historic inaccuracies made me curse. Plus the movie was boring and vapid taboot. Hoodlum should have never been made, it should be outlawed and all original copies burned. For shame, Hollywood, forshame.… Expand

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