An opium den, a dirty little boy (actually a midget), prostitutes galore, a violent fracas in a dive, a motel for sexual shenanigans, scantily clad babes with cleavage a lot, a boozer falling down the stairs, a racially mixed clientèle in a bar with Asians, Africans, and Anglos treated equally, does this sound like a film playing at the local shopping mall? Wrong
, it is. It is, in fact, an attempt to make a point about the racial tensions in the city. The film is about a black man who is a drug dealer, who has a girlfriend, but who also has an affair with a white woman. He is also a heroin addict, whose girlfriend is white, so he is not a racist. But the film also shows that the black guy is the one who gets the drug dealers, because he has been a dope dealer for a long time. And the white guy, the guy who got the drugs, is black, too. So the movie is very much about racism, about how the blacks are treated, how they are discriminated against, etc. This is what makes the films so great. I think that this is one of the great films of all time, that is so much more than just a movie about drugs. In fact it's a great film, as well. If you want to see a good film about drug dealing, watch this film. You will be amazed at how great it really is.<br /><br />I think this movie was a perfect example of how to film a positive message about race and racism. There is no racism in this, no prejudice, just positive messages about people
!!! I mean, it's not like the movie is about the black community, but it is an attempt to make a point about how black people are treated in the US. The movie tries to be funny and funny, yet it fails miserably in every way.<br /><br />The movie has a great cast of actors, including:<br/><strong>Dennis Hopper as the "bad guy" (who is actually a good guy),<strong><Barry White as a "good guy",<weak><Catherine Zeta Jones as an "evil" cop,<bad><Darryl Zanuck as "a good cop", and<good><Eddie Murphy as his "hero"<Bobby Cox as one of the cops, who is a cop<who has been killed by a drug dealer, or<a cop who has killed a black man, etc.),<poorly written, poorly acted, badly acted<unintentionally<inaccurately<and poorly written<as in this movie, the script is so poorly executed that it makes you wonder why the writers chose to write this script, why they chose this film, what the hell was the point of writing this screenplay, how did they decide to do