The first film, "Boyz N Da Hood" marked the directorial debut of John Singleton, a gifted director. It seems as if he put his heart into making this film. There would be mixed emotions from many people about this film, but specifically you knew Singleton was trying to send a message about the low points, not really all points, of what went down in South Central back in the day.

It starts off with elementary kids going to school, and encountering a dead body in an alleyway. Already you're somewhat shocked they aren't crying for mommy or anything. This is different from Bel Air, though. The main character in the story Tre, gets into a fight and is sent home. According to a deal he made with his mom(Angela Bassett), if he got in one more fight, he has to go live with hi

Although it did bring a pretty negative image of the inner city, "Boyz N Da Hood" does bring a close, in depth look at what it's like. Unlike the Hip Hop flicks of today that are all excuses to put out good soundtracks with big name artists this wasn't as shallow as what followed it. It gave everyone who saw it something to think about.

This movie is mainly about four African-American teenage males living in an urban Brooklyn area and they are faced with the dilemma that most young minorities have to face today and that is growing up too fast. "Juice", is about teenagers that are trying to earn respect by doing the wrong thing. When one does wrong it goes back and haunts all of them.

His father lives elsewhere in south central. On his first day there Tre has to rake the lawn. He has friends, his best friend Dough Boy (Ice Cube), and Dough's brother Chris. Dough tries to pick a fight with some big guy and gets whooped. Later that day Tre and his dad go fishing, talk about how Tre has to try to get out of the hood, do his best to be the best he can. They come back home and Dough Boy gets arrested.

Loc Dog struts around in tank tops and Khakis with his boxer shorts sticking out the back, a menacing furrowed brown and braids hanging in his face to further alienate his persona. Cain follows him around, wanting to be bad but with an apparent sense of whets right and wrong, hoping his foolish friend won't pull him too far over the edge.

The late and great Tupac Shakur give a great performance on playing a character known as "Bishop". He is faced with decisions of trying to survive on the mean streets of Brooklyn. Omar Epps plays "Q", an aspiring disc jockey that always tries to do the right thing, but he gets caught up in the politics of hanging out with a crew. Khalil Khan plays "Raheem" who is the leader of the group and wants always make sure that the group does right, but he gets caught up as well. The format of the movie changes as the element of guns enter the picture.

In a few cases their attempt to make America aware of something it turns its eyes away from, was successful. In others, what comes through is an

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