State Property
The movie follows Beans and his crew, the ABM as they systematically and effortlessly bump off all their cemented rivals and take over the drug-selling operations, create mayhem as their empire builds in their hometown of Philadelphia.
1950
9 December 1975, Maracaibo, Venezuela
4 December 1969, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
2 May 1978, Seoul, South Korea
3 May 1971, New York City, New York, USA
January 22, 2002
A shoddy male hip hop fantasy filled with guns, expensive cars, lots of naked women and Rocawear clothing.
March 19, 2002
The acting is amateurish, the cinematography is atrocious, the direction is clumsy, the writing is insipid and the violence is at once luridly graphic and laughably unconvincing.
January 25, 2002
... for all its social and political potential, State Property doesn't end up being very inspiring or insightful.
March 19, 2002
A dull, simple-minded and stereotypical tale of drugs, death and mind-numbing indifference on the inner-city streets.
January 21, 2002
Basically a static series of semi-improvised (and semi-coherent) raps between the stars.
January 19, 2002
Lacks the visual flair and bouncing bravado that characterizes better hip-hop clips and is content to recycle images and characters that were already tired 10 years ago.
March 07, 2002
No one involved, save Dash, shows the slightest aptitude for acting, and the script, credited to director Abdul Malik Abbott and Ernest 'Tron' Anderson, seems entirely improvised.
February 28, 2002
A film of empty, fetishistic violence in which murder is casual and fun.
