Deep Cover | | Cast : | Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum | | Director : | Bill Duke | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | April 15, 1992 | | DVD Released Date : | August 15, 2000 | | Language : | English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | June 22, 2005 | | Summary | Great film. | Content
 | Laurence Fishburne does a completely amazing job in this movie. It's an older movie, but it doesn't feel too dated. The only thing that kept me from giving it 5 stars is the narration by L. Fishburne tends to get a bit cloying. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 29, 2005 | | Summary | Deep Cover shames Scarface! | Content
| I have noticed that all my friends and family members have the SCARFACE DVD in their collection. One person told me that you don't have a complete DVD collection without Scarface. Well, I beg to differ!. Deep Cover is such an intelligently made movie that I feel that your DVD collection must include this movie. Laurence Fishburne's performance was riveting! Jeff Goldblum was fabulous as well. Fishburne plays a moralistic cop who goes undercover to catch a very powerful drug lord; hoping to stop drug trafficking into this country. Unfortunately, he has to do the one thing he is trying to stop; the selling of drugs. He becomes a drug dealer himself in an effort to make contact with a powerful drug lord. He is so good at being a drug dealer that he is not sure if he is a "cop pretending to be a drug dealer or a drug dealer pretending to be a cop!" He finds himself caught up in murder as well as drugs. He,later, meets up with his future partner in crime, Goldblum, who is a amoralistic lawyer who has been in drug dealer prior to his relationship with Fishburne. Fishburne,later, discovers that he has been bamboozled by the chief DEA. The DEA is really hoping to be in some form of partnership with this drug lord who they want Fishburne to make contact with. Fishburne finds himself circling an emotional, self awareness drain as he takes a sniff of crack and a drink of alcohol( something he swore he would "never do") as he realizes taht he has been used. He was driven by the fact that as a child he saw his drug addicted father get shot after he robbed a store and shot the store employee. The movie consists of several unknown actors who contributes to the success of this movie. Oh, I should mention Clarence Williams III who was is known for his role in the original TV series "The Mod Squad." Williams' plays a religious DEA cop who is determined to bring Fishburne to justice, never knowing that he is an undercover agent. Fabulous movie!!! |
| Rating | | | Date | January 21, 2005 | | Summary | Stellar Cast/Script | Content
| This is one of my all time favorite action flicks. It never gets old. It gets better everytime you see it. What I learned to appreciate about this film is the supporting cast. Fishburne plays one of the best roles of his career. He is absolutely riveting, as usual. But, my favorite actors in this film are the villains..Eddie, Ivy, and Barbosa. They have a certain ferocious, scumbag appeal to them, yet each in their own way. Eddie impressed me with the sheer look of panic on his face as he begs for his life. Most people tend to overlook such performances.
I also love the chemistry between Goldblum and Fishburne as they go from inferior to C.E.O.s of the underworld.
Both the film and its title theme are timeless and priceless.
A classic of the gangster/action genre.
A quotable film as well, I love the floetry soliloquies by Fishburne.
A must-have for any Fishburne fan.
I knew nothing about this film the first time I saw it. I don't like to give too much away. You won't be disappointed.
It's Awesome!! |
| Rating | | | Date | February 19, 2004 | | Summary | FIND THIS CD WITH THE BONUS CUT | Content
| In my first review of this soundtrack CD, I dogged it with 2 stars for having a lot of filler cuts and for dropping off the 16th track (it was on the cassette version). The big deal here was that the deleted song was "187um" by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg (who also did the title track). This Deep Cover revisited cut was one of the few highlights of the original soundtrack. Well, good news Dre/Snoop fans, there is a version of this CD with 187um as a bonus track. Do yourself a favor and seek out this version as it might be the only way to get these 2 Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg songs together on one disc. |
| Rating | | | Date | October 11, 2003 | | Summary | Same Old Drama | Content
| I am sick of movies being hyped up and they don't measure up to the talk. Deep Cover was a rip off of a lot of other drug-mob films I've seen. The director used the urban setting as a ploy to make the audience think it was seeing something different. People compared it to New Jack City. NJC wasn't great but it wins over Deep Cover hands down. This movie was a mess and there was no point to anything the characters did. Laurence Fishburne said his lines so slowly, as if he felt the director would butt in. God I wish he had! Jeff Goldblum was supposed to be tough but was nothing but a big wimp. Victoria Dillard couldn't act to save her life ( what was the reason she was there? ) the woman didn't do anything important! I guess this is good if you like violence with nothing to show for it. If you're looking for a film like this that handles the modern-day mob/drug life better I'd check out something else. |
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