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Judgment Night...A Guilty Pleasure
Plot: A group of four friends decide to take a shortcut through a ghetto on their way to a boxing game and end up witnessing the execution of a man by a ruthless gangster and his cronies after having wrecked their van. The rest of the film follows them as they are chased through the wasteland of a urban slum. <
>Pros: Denis Leary is the main thing that makes this movie worth watching. His character as a psychopathic gangster barking orders and spitting vulgarities contains a great amount of entertainment value. The action, although fairly unrealistic, keeps the movie running at a fast pace and never leaves the viewer bored. <
>Cons:The plot is fairly simple and the movie is skin deep as far as meaning is concerned, relying mostly on pure action, testosterone, and heroic feats. The characters are one-dimensional and with noncomplex personalities, so anyone who is expecting a movie with the sort of social commentary, outstanding performances, and incredible dialogue found in movies by directors such as Tarantino and Scorcese won't find anything but cheap thrills here. "Judgment Night" was too unrealistic and not "gritty" enough for my tastes. I found it ludicrous when the character played by Cuba Gooding Jr. decided to be some type of heroic cowboy and attempt to take out singlehandedly two hardcore and streetwise hoodlums who had lived their entire lives hustling on the streets and in prison. Furthermore, the final standoff between the gang leader and Emilio Estevez's character was a bit farfetched. I hardly think some upper middle class suburbanite without martial arts training would be able to beat a prison and street hardened hood in a fist fight. Actually, I found it hard to believe that a gangster would bother himself by chasing down a group of yuppies through a ghetto wasteland, risking his own life as well as those of his cronies, when he could just as easily gone to their houses after having found Estevez's characters driver's license in his wallet. <
>All in all, "Judment Night" is certainly worth watching, just don't take it too seriously.

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On the edge of your seat
I think you might find this review funny. When I first watched this movie in 94 it kept you on the edge of your seat. You never know what was going to happen next. It made you jump off of your seat when you didn't expect it. The funny thing is my husband is from Chicago, the north side, the good side, :)) and we were moving there when I first saw this moving. My 10 yr old son watched it with us. Needless to say he did not want to move to chicago after watching this movie. :)) I became a fan of Dennis Leary after watching this movie as well as the actors that was on his side. I like the others as well too. So the moral of the story is be careful in Chicago. [...] <
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Great film, but where are the extras???
After the miserable first release of Good Times-DVD, I expected a special collector's edition from UNIVERSAL.
Of course, I should get disappointed - except of one lousy trailer there is nothing on the DVD!
Although it was a nice try from UNIVERSAL to worth up the DVD with a DTS-Soundtrack, the DVD actually only matches the first release with its better picture-quality on this DVD-9!
The film itself of course is some great-laconic action-flic with great acting-performances (Leary is a standout as Fellon, the bad guy!).