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I Got the Hook Up (review) - June 09, 1998
This article appeared in the Village Voice on June 09, 1998
Multimillionaire rapper Master P's second film, I Got the Hook-Up, is a typical sophomore letdown that keeps it real only in traditional, bad-meaning-bad ways: real dumb, real stupid, really badly made.
June 09, 1998
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I GOT THE HOOK-UP
Directed by Michael Martin
Multimillionaire rapper Master P's second film, I Got the Hook-Up, is a typical sophomore letdown that keeps it real only in traditional, bad-meaning-bad ways: real dumb, real stupid, really badly made. Unlike his single-minded debut, the straight-to-video revenge fantasy I'm 'Bout It, I Got the Hook-Up is a disjointed comedy about two street-corner hustlers (bigman P and A.J. Johnson as his gruff, Chihuahua-like sidekick) who luck into a batch of cell phones. Running afoul of the mob and the feds, the pair skitter from half-baked gangsterism to aimless rounds of the dozens to pointless mack set pieces. Having managed to will two feature films into existence, P apparently didn't have time to spare on things like character or story. Few shots are fired, and the fantasy ghetto P creates is full of wild Jerry Springer--meets--William Gibson flourishes (the transvestite prostitutes and hot-sex skeezers give head and hack databases with equal skill), but I Got the Hook-Up is really no more than another interesting footnote in the ongoing story of how people can get rich selling the same old shit.
Posted by ebogjonson in garchival, screened, on July 18, 2006 10:35 PM
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