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Urban Menace

  • Video
  • 1999
  • R
  • 1h 12m
IMDb RATING
1.9/10
2.1K
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Snoop Dogg in Urban Menace (1999)
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An insane preacher (Snoop Dogg) seeks retribution from the local crime syndicate (Big Pun & Fat Joe) for the death of his family and the burning of his church.An insane preacher (Snoop Dogg) seeks retribution from the local crime syndicate (Big Pun & Fat Joe) for the death of his family and the burning of his church.An insane preacher (Snoop Dogg) seeks retribution from the local crime syndicate (Big Pun & Fat Joe) for the death of his family and the burning of his church.

  • Director
    • Albert Pyun
  • Writers
    • Albert Pyun
    • Tim Story
    • Andrew Markell
  • Stars
    • Snoop Dogg
    • Big Pun
    • Ice-T
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    1.9/10
    2.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Albert Pyun
    • Writers
      • Albert Pyun
      • Tim Story
      • Andrew Markell
    • Stars
      • Snoop Dogg
      • Big Pun
      • Ice-T
    • 40User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Snoop Dogg
    Snoop Dogg
    • Preacher Caleb
    Big Pun
    Big Pun
    • Crow
    • (as Big Punisher)
    Ice-T
    Ice-T
    • Narrator
    Fat Joe
    Fat Joe
    • Terror
    T.J. Storm
    T.J. Storm
    • King
    Vincent Klyn
    • Shadow
    Romany Malco
    Romany Malco
    • Syn
    Tahitia Hicks
    • Holt
    • (as Tahitia)
    Eva La Dare
    Eva La Dare
    • Jolene
    • (as Karen Dyer)
    Ernie Hudson Jr.
    • No Dice
    Jahi J.J. Zuri
    • Cool D
    Rob Ladesich
    • Harper
    Michael Walde-Berger
    Michael Walde-Berger
    • Harper's Boss
    Michaela Polakovicova
    • Hooker
    Ed Satterwhite
    • Crow's Posse
    Jason Stapleton
    • Crow's Posse
    Lubo Salater
    • Crow's Posse
    Robert Ughoro
    • Caleb's Posse
    • Director
      • Albert Pyun
    • Writers
      • Albert Pyun
      • Tim Story
      • Andrew Markell
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    User reviews40

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    1dlw205

    oh man oh man oh man

    My god what a waste of time. If my friends weren't trying to work through the bottom 100 movies there is no way I would have watched more than five minutes.

    Beyond the bad special effects, the poor sound, the horrible script, the bad acting, and the lack of directing, this movie would still be the worst movie ever. At least in horror movies there is funny stuff happening (see "Food of the Gods, part II").

    The highlight is Big Pun trying to talk since he is so damn fat he mostly just mumbles and wheezes so bad you can't tell what he is saying. Let me summarize the plot -- Snoop dog was a preacher burned in a church fire, he comes back from the dead a year later and kills a drug lord once a month thereafter.

    Wow, unless you are doing a bad movie challenge stay as far away from this as possible.
    1GruntMcFuttock

    Vote now to get it in the bottom 100

    I disagree with some of the other comments that the film isn't so bad it's funny, I thought this was so bad it was hilarious! Watching Big Pun wearing a Big Pun T shirt and mumbling along reading his lines from a board - I could barely stop laughing through the whole thing. Luckily the final (brutal) cut makes the movie just under an hour. Watch it if you get the chance.

    1/10 for acting, directing, story

    10/10 for the mumbling fat man

    Register your vote, this deserves a bottom 100 place. Just confirms that rappers and movies generally don't mix well!
    1FunkyMunkey106

    NOT even a "funny" bad movie

    This is the worst film I've ever seen. I rented this hoping for one of those "hilariously cr@p movie experiences" (Plan 9, Anaconda, Congo), but this isn't even watchable. Even hip-hop fans should steer clear of this for fear of seeing your favourite stars in a different light - a big, glaring, filtered light making them look as if someone's shining a spotlight on their foreheads.

    Why's it so bad? The talking vacuum cleaner Fat Joe's heaving bulk; the terrible performances from the other actors; the god-awful lighting and filtering; the boring, BORING, BOOOOOORING story; and about a million other things.

    In fact, from the looks of "The Wrecking Crew", this was made at the same time, in the same place, with the same crew (same writer, director, assistant director, producers, cinematographer, editor, cameraman... you get the idea), which is just laughable. The 1999 positive comment "[Filmwerks] know their target market and plays incredibly well to it" was surely one of the blurbs rejected for the back of the box for lack of believability. Avoid.
    1ALIZEEBUM

    A Great Bunch Of Rubbish

    I purchased this DVD & Driller Killer for 5 euro and expected something more than a compleat pile of crap. There is no story or plot.Urban Menace is a joke.I'm a fan of hip hop and usually find Ice T pretty lame but the tracks he used on this seem to be outtakes from his worst album.Snoop Dogg is rubbish and you would hardly know he was in it.Did he get paid $200 for an afternoons work? I give this 'film' one star simply because Fat Joe & Big Pun made me laugh with their rubbish 'acting'.If you could fix your DVD to only play the scenes with these two you could raise a smile. If you find the Urban Menace DVD lying in the street pass it by...a piece of burnt wood is more interesting.
    aloep

    A fantastic home video comedy

    that unfortunately thinks it's a serious film. This is quite simply the most incoherent piece of nonsense ever to come to DVD. No I'm not going to call it a film because it isn't one as it was shot on digital video and has a look which resembles video captured from a digital camera with Pyun's trademark blue filter. In all honesty though, it's not as unwatchable as Crazy Six and the dialogue, the acting, the editing and the fact that you'll probably have no clue as to what is going on makes this absolutely hilarious to watch, especially with the commentary track.

    What this video (not, it's not a film) resembles is a home video of a bunch of idiots running around an empty building with paintball guns pretending to be gangsta and going completely over the top with their dialogue and using the f word at the end of every second word. I had no idea who was the good guys or who was the bad guys, if there were any good guys that is. The acting is hilarious, especially Big Pun's mumbling and fact that he's obviously reading off cue cards behind camera. This is one of the worst performances I've ever seen, rivalling only Anna Nicole Smith in Skyscraper and Mario Van Peebles in Exterminator 2. A good 80% of the dialogue consists of the words "f*ck", "motherf*cker" and "n*gger".

    Probably the funniest thing is that Albert Pyun comes completely clean about how bad this video is in the commentary. He admits that several members of the cast never met and were edited together to make it look like they were in conversation which is funny, because that is exactly what it looks like. Something which I have suspected he has done in several of his films. He also admits that one of the characters running around in black is actually Snoop Dogg's stunt double and not him, which is necessary if for a second you thought of trying to make the tiniest bit of sense out of this nonsense, because I had no idea this was even meant to be him as it could quite easily have been one of the many gang members. Snoop Dogg was only there for a limited amount of time, he also tells us in case we hadn't already guessed that. Being the first billed character, his face only flashes on and off a few times and then appears at the end, and his stunt double fills in for the rest and believe me, if you don't listen to the commentary you probably won't even realize that the stunt double is supposed to be him. He also tells us that several scenes were the same corridors we saw earlier, just with all the factory mess rearranged and shot in the opposite direction which is exactly what it looks like!

    There's also plenty of continuity errors. Such as how did this preacher become so skilled with weapons? In one scene he takes out what I counted to be 17 people in a corridor and apparently has eyes on the back of his head. While viewing it I noticed that one of them even collapses without being shot at in the sea of falling bodies. I could go on and on but it would take all day, so for now I'll just point out the church with the laughable CGI flames!

    If you like seeing "filmmaking" at the very bottom end of the spectrum then I seriously recommend you to check out this. Honestly, if enough people see this I think it could be come a Grade Z classic in the future, it has all the makings of it. This video is a joke, nothing more, nothing less and if you have a sense of humour, then this DVD is a lot of fun! There is just simply no way to take this seriously, and the fact that those involved seem quite unaware of it only adds to it.

    Oh, and there's a "Disclaimer" from Ice-T at the start but don't worry, much of the stuff he says in that doesn't even happen in the fi…sorry video!

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    • Trivia
      While the rappers in the movie shot their parts in New York, the actors of the movie filmed in Central and Eastern Europe in abandoned buildings.
    • Quotes

      Crow: That's some real motherfuckin' bullshit! We got a whole army of motherfuckers, and we can get punished by this skinny guy psycho!

      Terror: Maybe we need to hire that nigga on our team, show these bitch-ass niggas how the fuck it's done.

      Crow: We all see the boy got heart.

      No Dice: [Giggles] For sure dawg, whole lot of it too. Whatcha want me to do about it?

      Terror: Shut the fuck up bitch-ass nigga, and roll a blunt. Only shit you good at!

      No Dice: Heh-heh.

      [Giggles]

      Crow: Shut up man, this is serious bizness man.

    • Connections
      Edited into The Wrecking Crew (2000)

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    • Release date
      • August 22, 2007 (Japan)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Urban Renewal
    • Filming locations
      • Bratislava, Slovakia(shootout scene)
    • Production companies
      • Filmwerks
      • Imperial Entertainment
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 12m(72 min)
    • Color
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    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR

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