KnotMissPriceless Why so much hype?

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Ginger Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Kayden This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

marieltrokan For a change that's impossible to create a change that's possible, it's incumbent that the impossible change is the fact of sameness and that the possible change is the impossible fact of sameness. The change that can't exist must honour the condition of being a copy - the change that can exist must honour the condition of being unique.To orchestrate a change into existence that can be copied, the original change needs to obey the condition of being unoriginal. It's compulsory, that the original experience is an unoriginal experience so that it can create an experience which is original. The objective, is to create an experience which is the right to be free from the condition of being a copy - to create something that has the ability to enjoy being unique.The objective is the enjoyment of uniqueness; this makes the means to the objective the criticism of inspiration. Criticising inspiration is the way to create the enjoyment of uniqueness.Uniqueness that's enjoyable isn't an enjoyable experience and it isn't uniqueness. Uniqueness that's enjoyable is a despicable experience that's merely a typical experience. In order to purify the enjoyment of uniqueness, so that it isn't a source of hostility, it's necessary for rational criticism to self- destruct. Criticism that's informed by reason needs to lose its status, and allow itself to be exposed as an experience of reality that doesn't deserve to be copied. Since criticism that's rational can't be copied, this leaves the enjoyment of uniqueness the freedom to just be fun and unique - if criticism that's rational can lose its status, then why on earth should the enjoyment of uniqueness feel threatened by criticism that isn't rational?Rational criticism is the balance of violence that's innocent: the enjoyment of uniqueness is a reality which deserves to be an innocent violence, but can only attain that identity through sacrifice.Above the Rim is a masterpiece, as it's about a true version of a truth sacrificing itself so that a false version of the same truth can exist.Any brilliance, that exists in the universe only exists because a better version of the same brilliance has been forced to repress itself

Dan P Kind of low ratings, this movie should never be rated, even by hater below 6. I think is around 8 or 9 though. Is a street movie, integrated with the hoop dreams of high-school phenom. The story line is dope, has some real entertaining characters. Am not going to write out the whole plot, watch the movie.Probably one of my favorite sport movies, with Any Given Sunday. You get some real elements. Kyle Watson the high-school phenom, gets caught up by the elements of streets. Pac, in the movie plays the main bad guy in the movie Birdie, a very manipulative character, with a very dark side, dude slashes a bum to death with a razor from this tongue, played by Bernie Mac, for talking smack about him. LOL. Anyhow everything collides when Kyle decides not to play along Birdie in the tournament, and things get hectic. The hoops in the movie is raw, some real ballers, not some white men old man that can't even ball, and disgraces the game of basketball. Hoop fans would love it, people that love street movies will love it. Very entertaining characters to add.

jermaine-miles When i read some of comments that have been posted on this movie i felt as though something was missing. Someone needed to comment on this film who was actually a part of the culture that is being shown in this film. I am a black male who went to see this movie the weekend that it was released. As far as the hood is concerned, this is a classic movie. The cast was perfect, especially for the time of it's release. It was a movie set in the East Coast, but Tupac was a stand out star, and the entire soundtrack was done by Death Row. Shakur gave a great performance through out, along with Dwayne Martin. Leon was also featured in another film celebrated by the black community more than anywhere else, The Five Heartbeats. Not to mention Marlon Wayans doing what he always does. Wood Harris, who later goes on to "The Wire" fame, portrays a very aggressive character. The comedic legend Bernie Mac is featured in a good role also. I know that movies aren't black or white. They are just movies, but it is evident that there are a slew of movies that are celebrated a lot more in the black community than anywhere else. Menace II Society, Juice, New Jersey Drive, Above the Rim, Belly, Paid in Full, and this film are "Hood" classics. If you want to even begin to understand the logic behind some of the themes of this genre, then this is a very good movie to start with.

fullenw I don't know if a Above the rim is seen as a sports flick. Either way its a classic.When I say classic I don't mean a boring movie that was good in its heyday. I mean a fun movie combining inspiration, comedy, drama, great acting and great cast.There's 2 stories rolled into 1. Tommy Shepards problem pretty much brought him down. Kyle Watson on the other hand is a high school basket baller that if he plays his cards right will avoid the same fate as Tommy Shepard.Recognizable cast as well. Definitely a must-see. Especially with Marlon Wayans and Tupac. This is perhaps Duane Martins and Leons best performance ever.