Most Rewatchable Scene
Rooftop scene
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- A ruling is requested on whether the Chris Rock bike chase with Ice T chasing him counts; one objection is that it is short, and it is moved from aged-best into rewatchable scenes.
- Riding the bike down the steps without flying over the handlebars is impressive.
- The first scene with Nino, G Money and the stuttering guy (called Radio Rahim) in the Jeep, recalling playing ball as kids, lays out the relationships; a little hacky but liked.
- Nino laying out the Carter complex leads into a money-making montage borrowed from Scarface; the best moment is holding up the vial and saying crack.
- The plan for Fat Smitty and the Carter rollout is built like a real business, "Henry Ford type" and militant in its organization.
- From the bridge-dangling opening credits through the money montage, the first 22 minutes are unassailably entertaining before the movie turns dark; the bridge drop with "wouldn't want to be you" is enjoyed.
- Pookie explaining Nino's crack setup to Ice T's character is a really good scene.
- The naked workers in the drug house were a first on film; the viewer, then in college in Massachusetts, was mesmerized, and the level of organization was new even to someone who knew dealers as a kid.
- Nakedness in the movie is portrayed as stripping away humanity, including when Nino strips the Carter owner at gunpoint.
- Pookie's cover getting blown after being placed around crack every day, followed by the building being blown up, is a good action sequence.
- Nino and Ice T's character on the roof is a chess game with respect; an objection calls it hokey, Crash-level script cuteness that Nino killed the cop's mother, answered that the film had to establish a motive.
- Nino's courtroom speech that the lawmakers, politicians and anti-legalization lobbyists are the guilty ones is played in full.
- The raid scene where Nino, holding a dog, stabs Kareem Akbar is raised as missing from the list and possibly the coolest scene.
- The omission of the raid scene is acknowledged as an accident. — Bill Simmons
- In that meeting Nino requires everyone to wear black for the Carter's funeral and arrives with a chain and a sword in his cane, recalling Al Capone with the bat in The Untouchables and a Martin episode callback; Martin was supposed to be in the movie.
- The rooftop is called the winner and an iconic, Oscar-level scene inside a pop movie, with G Money's tearful plea and Snipes crying well.
- Killing G Money is the moment Nino stops being one of the community; Scarface had even less reason to kill Manny, and older relatives could not believe Nino did his partner like that.
- A counterview says Nino believes his partner is after his place, and his face shows conflict as he hugs, kisses and almost spares him.
- No character in the movie is redeemable, which makes it great; the rooftop scene is named the winner.
