
The New York Times
The reversals the characters suffer across the movie’s running time are epic, and the movie’s finale unfolds to genuinely startling effect.
Full reviewWu-Tang Clan's the RZA directs this heist thriller set in New Orleans starring Terrence Howard (Iron Man), Wesley Snipes (Dolemite Is My Name) and T.I. (Ant-Man).
When four childhood friends return to their now decimated New Orleans suburb after Hurricane Katrina, they turn to a gangster for employment and soon find themselves hired to pull off a daring casino heist.
LessThe reversals the characters suffer across the movie’s running time are epic, and the movie’s finale unfolds to genuinely startling effect.
Full reviewThe film is a muddled social-protest thriller that tries to bridge the corrupt machinations upstairs with the desperation of the streets, and can't find a way to connect them convincingly.
Full reviewCut Throat City is still an ambitious and volatile film, an atmospheric survey of the thankless world of the rich and the damned.
Full reviewRZA's trenchant take on the synergistic interaction of poverty and greed gradually loses focus as it devolves into a familiar account of warring gangsters, corrupt politicians and a city struggling for redemption.
Full review"Cut Throat City" ends on a note that's too clever by half, but that doesn't undercut all the vibrant, rough-edged, impressive storytelling that led to that moment.
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