this feature be a grim and violent urban saga of a dysfunctional family that play out amid the decay and ugliness of harlem . this storied community and long neglected and portray a unredeemable and take another hit a family disintegrate and drug war be the order of the day . the film have an odd symmetry in that it open and close with scene of drug overdoses which may explain why two impressionable youngster who should know good get swallow up drug distribution activity and violent crime . the movie also show black men in a very poor light a every single character be flaw beyond measure and not one of them have a single redeeming quality . besides the self loathing of harlem and it resident and the film parallel theme serve up the familiar race war shoot out between black hoodlum and mafia thug who be determine to hold on to lucrative drug market uptown . wesley snipe headline a good cast that be sadly waste in this picture . michael wright be very good a the angry and bitter raynathan but with film like super fly and new jack city and several other film of this type out there and who need another one .