It just doesn’t gel when, instead of saying something like “we’re going to have a good time tonight”, she comes out with, “we’re gonna burn. The only thing that irks me about her performance comes at the end when she’s talking to the audience and trying to be ‘hip’ and ‘rad’ with the crowd. Although her role in this one isn’t huge, limited mainly to overdosing, followed by a few flashback scenes to the night before at the flat and in the jazz club, she lights up the screen whenever she appears.
When I first saw this film at the cinema in 1997 and reviewed it, I said that “ Thandie Newton has to be one of Britain’s rising stars” and it’s clear she’s on her way up now since the release of M:I-2. Most of the time he seems like a combination between Damon Wayans and a young Wesley Snipes, but it seems prophetic in a way that as his screen character, Spoon, eulogises about the fact that he sees his luck in life having run out, that shortly after the film, he was killed in a drive-by shooting leaving behind a few albums and films to his name. Tupac Shakur does his part well, but it’s hardly outstanding.
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Most people will recognise him from Quentin Tarantino’s films, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, but he has been in the acting game for a long time now and one of the earliest performances I saw him in was another “angry young man” as a skinhead raging against the system whose life is heading fast in a downward spiral, in the 1982 TV film, Made in Britain. What really makes this film for me is the superb acting, as always, from the reliable Brit Tim Roth. The film has been likened as a US “Trainspotting”, but both films use a style of their own and need to be seen on their own terms. The D-Reper’s minder is underexagerating the situation a great deal when he tells the two stars that his boss is “very unhappy with his purchase”, and when you watch the film you’ll see why…
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Whether it’s a trip to the local social services office, or an appointment with the nurse at the HIV-testing clinic, nothing is as easy as it seems as they’re pushed from pillar to post in the hope that they’ll get some form of medication today before they crack under the pressure and go back on the smack.Īs if that wasn’t hard enough, they’ve also got the local drugs baron, the D-Reper, on their tail, after they stiffed him in a deal to sell him a top-of-the-range camcorder. They played a superb gig in a jazz club where talent scouts were watching and they’re on the verge of signing a deal. They’ve picked a bad day to kick their habit. However, this isn’t the only place where bureaucracy won’t help them in their attempt to get clean. After trying all manner of ways to call an ambulance, they go down to the hospital to book her in. Gridlock’d tells the story of two junkies who decide it’s time to kick their drugs habit when their flat-sharing partner, Cookie ( Thandie Newton) goes into a coma after taking one too many happy-tabs. Stretch: Tim Roth Spoon: Tupac Shakur Cookie: Thandie Newton D-Reper: Vondie Curtis-Hall Blind Man: Howard Hesseman
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