New York. The home of the Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building and, of course, the Statue of Liberty. Although it has some of the world's most attractive monuments, this city has not always been nice and sweet, and one 1991 film uncovers the bad side.
New Jack City had everything destined for success; a hardcore plot, an unstoppable cast and gritty dialogue. This film was based on Nino Brown (Wesley Snipes) and his gang, CMB, or the Cash Money Brothers, who plan to take over the drug industry in New York in the late 1980's. Brown and his gang alter an apartment complex (called "The Carter") into their own crack house, but two undercover cops try to stop Brown and his gang from distributing their deadly drugs.
Scott Appleton (Ice-T) and Nick Peretti (Judd Nelson) try to prove that Brown and his alliances are drug dealers. So, the two cops hatch a plan to get Pookie (Chris Rock), a former stick-up kid, to go undercover at "The Carter" to gather evidence. Eventually, greed caused the downfall of Brown and the CMB. Finally, cops arrest Brown. Appleton soon discovers that Brown murdered his mother years earlier as a launch to his first gang. Eventually, Brown was found guilty to a lesser charge! In revengefulness, Brown put the blame on his former gang member Kareem Akbar (Christopher Williams) as a leader of CMB. Lastly, a man who tried to tell the cops about his actions murders Brown in the courthouse.
