New Jack City (2006)

Despite having dated about as successfully as Ulrika Jonsson, Mario Van Peebles' voyeuristic exposé of the logistics of running an urban crack war still manages to get its defiantly unambiguous point across with both power and style. This is thanks largely to a handful of strong performances from some pretty unlikely suspects. Ice-T, in particular, is impressively convincing as the streetwise cop hell-bent on avenging his mother's death at the hands of a gangbanging, junkie shitbag.

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