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I just saw this movie for the first time on Turner Classic Movies and I loved it. Except for one scene that doesn't really spoil the film. I'm talking about the minstrel show black-face number 30 minutes before the end of the film. The scene is racist and offensive. Also, if I'm being politically correct for voicing my opinion on it then so be it. Time were different back then yes, but the way it looked on TV was shocking. A lovely musical like Show Boat with great singing by everyone and then wham here comes a cringing minstrel scene. First off, there is not one black actor or actress present when the minstrel scene is shown. Hmm I wonder why. Magonolia (Irene Dunne) comes out in black-face playing a Banjo, with painted white lips and burnt cork all over her face. You can even see a 2 second shot of Irene applying the black-face before coming out to preform. Anyway, she sings Gallivatin around and four or five other white actors coming out in black-face as well to join her in the finale. Some black-face numbers I don't find offensive. Like the Fred Astaire number in Swing Time but this one was. Not only did Irene and the other actors were in black-face, the audience laughed when they finished the number which I really found not funny. If you can look past that scene the movie is great.

This movie has some great musical numbers. Especially Paul Robeson's Old Man River. Robeson has to be considered the greatest black actor of the 1930's. His strong deep voice is perfect for the song and he puts effort into the song. You can actually see the expression on his face. Irene Dunne was brilliant as Magnolia and well as Hattie Mcdaniel as Queenie. I saw the 1929 version of showboat and didn't like it very much. I say this one is a whole lot better.

Lockdown is a great movie. Sad but real. Lockdown is a story about an aspiring swimmer named Avery (Richard T Jones). One of his main goals in life is to become a swimmer One night while he and his two friends Dre and Cashmere ( Gabriel Casseus, Deaundre Bonds) are driving in Cashmere's car they find a gun. The gun is linked to a fast food robbery earlier that night. The Police tracks them down and finds the gun on them. They all get sentenced for armed robbery and murder.

Gabriel Casseus's performance of the hyper and thuggish Cashmere was brilliant. Bonds role of Dre was not bad, but it didn't live up like the roles of Richard T Jones and Gabriel Casseus. Master P is also great as Clean Up, the vicious inmate who has security guards working for him, his drugs being brought in and out of the prison a ho of a girlfriend who Cashmere gets a piece of, and he wants Cashmere to do his dirty work.

The supporting cast was brilliant. Melissa De Sousa as Avery's girl Krista; Sticky Fingaz as Broadway the ex drug dealer turned inmate; Bill Nunn as Avery's scouter for college and his attorney; And Clifton Powell who was the OG of the prison, and I felt he should've had a longer part in the movie.

Lockdown is Master P's best movie to date.

Its funny how some of you idiots who have made comments about this movie praising its good camera angles and sh*t like that and yall look past the racism and stereotype are a bunch of fools I just saw this movie a couple a nights ago on one of the classic channels and I have to say this movie is a disgrace to our peoples humanity and everything we live for and anybody who doesnt see that needs to go to hell just like DW Griffith Blackface is something they used to put on back in the day especially Al Jolson and I think that is also a disgrace putting blackface on white people making them look talk and stereotype us is just down right stupid you people praising this movie are just as sick as DW Griffith was

This Movie was excellent great story great actors and great ending

Ive seen Turbulence and Passenger 57 and none of them compare to this movie Agent Nick Halton (James Russo) a former navy seal Has been tracking the Phychotic Killer Jeremy Barrett (Michael Harris) for 3 years he finnally catches him and Barrett is then transported and handed over to the FBI But when Barrett gets on the plane he Hijacks it and is threatning to crash the plane into a populated area its up to Nick to finish Jeremy barrett once and for all Ice T did a good job with his role even though it was not even a 45 minute roll Brittany Daniel also did a good job with her roll this movie also has some comedy in it that really made me laugh especially Michael Harris's character this is definetly a movie to see

This movie was beyond bad it was terrible Roc a Fella Records have no acting talent what so ever if a rapper such as Beanie Seigel is going to make a movie about his life growing up in the hood be creative this movie is has no creativity 1. How are you going to cast yourself as the same rap name or like the that you use in real life Beans untouchable J boss dame 2. the gun scenes were just as fake as a rolex with cubix zirconias this movie reminds me of Master P debut acting or should I say bad acting 1997 Independent movie Im Bout it it was one of the worst movies of 1997 heres how they are alike 1. they both were banned from movie theaters nationwide 2. the bat scenes in both movies were fake as hell 3. both movies have bad actors and bad acting this movie get no stars from me Ive seen better gangsta movies that were way better than this Garbage

End of days is a great action thriller with intense moments. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ex cop Jericho cane who is assigned to protect a woman by the name of Christine York (Robin Tunney.) Christine is a woman on the edge of her seat, trying to escape run and hide from the Devil/Satan (Gabriel Byrne). If he mates with christine, he unleashes massive hell on earth. But Jericho is not going to let that happen heis going to do anything his power to stop Satan that means risking his own life

I've been watching Arnold a long time and at age now its great to still see him do action movies Robin Tunney is beautiful but she talks weird she sounds like she did in The Craft when I first saw her act Gabriel Byrne is just a great actor the man knows what hes doing ever time he act Schwarzenegger Vs Byrne who ever thought It could definitely a movie to see

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Spoilers The Rock is a high adrenaline rush movie theres action up in down in this movie Sean Connery gives an outstanding performance so does Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris. Ed Harris Plays General Francis Frank Hummel a Vietnam veteran. He and his army of marines take over alcatraz by taking over 30 people hostage and Threatning To wreak havoc upon San Francisco by arming 15 chemical VX Poison Nerve gas rockets. Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) is the FBI Chemical weapons expert and knows all about VX gas and John Mason (Sean Connery) a ex con that gets a second chance from the FBI To do some good. He and Goodspeed must stop Hummels evil regime before its too late

I thought the cast of this movie were Great William Forsyte Vanessa Marcil as Goodspeed's Girlfriend Tony "Candyman Todd" as one of the marines that turns on hummel David Morse as Hummels second man in charge and Michael Bhein as Navy seal Anderson who tries to bring down hummel but suffers a fatal death

Some of the action scene in this movie were straight out incredible especially the Hummer and Ferrari scene Ive watches Michael Bay direct some great movie but this one tops them all I give this movie a 10 out of 10 for well casted well directed great storyline and great action scenes