
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the... (Full plot summary below)
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Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug-lord Rodney Little, who, when not playing with model trains or drinking Moo for his ulcer, just likes to chill with his brothers near the benches outside the project houses. When a night man at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein doesn't buy the story, however, and sets out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Leave your thoughts about Clockers.
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA work of staggering intelligence and emotional force -- a mosaic of broken dreams. |
| FlavorwireJason BaileyThere's no denying the movie's greatness: the depth of the characters, the urgency of its narrative, the nightmarishness of its vision. |
| eFilmCritic.comRob GonsalvesClockers is messy and didactic, but it's complex in a way that a tidy film can't be. |
| Flipside Movie EmporiumRob VauxA heartfelt but badly unfocused slice-of-urban life from Spike Lee. Depressingly typical of the director's efforts of late. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsDragan AntulovStrong performances are reason enough for the audience to endure 129 minutes of Clockers. |
| Washington PostKevin McManusAs always, Lee fills his story with bold, vivid, glib characters who manage to be entertaining even as they flail at one another. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAlthough Clockers is... a murder mystery, in solving its murder, it doesn't even begin to find a solution to the system that led to the murder. That is the point. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaA fascinating and engrossing character study. |
| TimeRichard SchickelThe film is more than a murder mystery and more than a study in character conflict. At its best, it is an intense and complex portrait of an urban landscape on which the movies' gaze has not often fallen. |
| Washington PostHal HinsonWhat we get mostly in the film is a sense of Lee flailing, struggling to get a handle on his material. |