"Paid In Full" is not the kind of movie that George W. Bush will ever see.
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11/21/05
Paid in Full (2002)
51 %
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Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 20
Rotten:19
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Consensus: Though well-acted and non-exploitative, Paid in Full treads a very well-worn story.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Oct 25, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $3,042,188
Synopsis: Set in the early 1980s, this entry in the African-American urban gangster genre puts character development in the front seat for a change as it rolls through the Harlem streets on its usual rise-and-fall route. Ace (Wood Harris) starts out... [More]
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11/20/02
Top Critic Stone seems to have a knack for wrapping the theater in a cold blanket of urban desperation.
11/15/02
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Top Critic For a rapsploitation film to target and frown upon the darker forces of its nature is certainly a good sign for the maturation of the genre.
11/03/02
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10/31/02
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10/29/02
Top Critic Very familiar, yes, but a stylish and above all well-acted tale of friendships gone sour and the inevitable steep price of crime -- a much better movie than it’s ever going to get credit for.
10/28/02
The story is familiar from its many predecessors; like them, it eventually culminates in the not-exactly -stunning insight that crime doesn't pay.
10/28/02
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10/27/02
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10/26/02
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10/26/02
Top Critic This is a heartfelt mea culpa -- which gives Paid in Full much of its unexpected emotional power.
10/26/02
If you saw it on TV, you'd probably turn it off, convinced that you had already seen that movie.
10/25/02
If there's a way to effectively teach kids about the dangers of drugs, I think it's in projects like the (unfortunately R-rated) Paid.
10/25/02
This familiar rise-and-fall tale is long on glamour and short on larger moralistic consequences, though it's told with sharp ears and eyes for the tenor of the times.
10/25/02
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