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 review
Cut Throat City
Wu-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.
Less2020Rating: R16, Violence, offensive language, drug use & sexual material123 minsUSA
ActionCrimeThriller
- Director:
- RZA ('Love Beats Rhymes', 'The Man with the Iron Fists')
- Writer:
- Paul Cuschieri
- Cast:
- Terrence HowardWesley SnipesT.I.Eiza GonzálezShameik MooreDemetrius Shipp Jr.Joel David MooreKat GrahamEthan Hawke
Cut Throat City | Reviews
69%42 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® Score
All reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
Variety
The 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 review
Slant Magazine
Cut Throat City is still an ambitious and volatile film, an atmospheric survey of the thankless world of the rich and the damned.
Full review
Hollywood Reporter
RZA'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
Chicago Sun-Times
"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.
Full review