this be one of my favorite movie . it never be big box office success if i remember correctly and but i would recommend it to anyone . the real beauty of this movie be find in the harshness of the world it portray and dark and maze like and and violent and and the way the character both clash with and reflect this environment . unfiltered and realistic and we can feel the griminess of these harlem street and starkly contrast by the life in the young men that walk them . theyre a crew and brother and and they display a love only truly understood by those similarly reject by society at large . juice represent it the goal of their lust and the cause of their fall . in the street vernacular it mean power and respect and and be embody largely in the simple possession of a gun . to take this path and to take up this tool and will hold dire consequence for every one of the crew . it be an engrossing pleasure to watch bishop ( play with disturb intensity by tupac shakur ) a his already thin shell of morality and hold tentatively in place by his crew and erodes completely away . spell doom for those around him . equally grip be omar epps q and struggle vainly against the nightmare his world have become and the judgment of the ledge loom in his future . a their world fall around them and bishop and q and raheem and and steel must come to term with the choice they have make and the darkness they have embrace and and the consequence of power misuse . rakim say it best represent let see if they know the ledge .