the tv guide describe the player club a gritty drama about an aspiring journalist who take a job in a strip club to make end meet which have me think i would be watch something like striptease without any of the campness but i find myself be more and more puzzled at what sort of film ice cube be try to make here . it might be gritty but only because character say thing like ah be thru wid chew you motherf kin ho while the drama elements never come to the fore . in fact there little in the way of character focus . the aspiring journalist diane armstrong get a job at the strip club but the story centre around other character subplots for a couple of minute that do not really lead anywhere and one can not help think the character of diane be use to set up the story just so writer or director ice cube can use the location to play a soundtrack that be compose of mainly ice cube track . oh yes this be a very cynical ploy of sell a few record and leave me think this be the only function of the movie which apart from the beautiful lisa raye who spend much of the movie either topless or dress in a bikini be mainly a waste of time .