Hell Up in Harlem (1973)

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   nbats

   https://ww2.m4ufree.com/watch-iyay 1 year 6 months ago
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   Siskoid

   After the success of Black Caesar, its director Larry Cohen was tasked with making a quick sequel and that's Hell Up in Harlem, which indeed came out later that same year! It's rawer, cheaper, and more sensationalistic, and at times I recognize the Cohen who made the balls-out crazy Q more than I did in the original film. For it to work, characters are established sometimes go out the window (the timid father too easily becomes a crime boss, for example), and the movie plays out as a sometimes insane revenge story, sometimes as James Bond, and in my head canon, I like to think the original film's ending (reprised here excepting the very end) is actually intact, and this is all a fever dream Fred Williamson is having while he dies. Certainly, the action is pushed to extremes that don't really fit the grounded, gritty feel of the original, but it offers a number of memorable moments. It strikes me as a piece of camp at times, which isn't an indictment, it's just a different kind of entertainment. It might all be better if the fight choreography weren't so rushed as well, and the soundtrack, while in the same style, isn't as good. But do we expect from something pieced together last minute before the actors could ask for more money? 3 years 11 months ago
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   mathiasa

   The scene at the graveyard is hilarious! 10 years 7 months ago

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