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Rated: R; Genre: Crime; With: DMX and Nas

By Mike D'Angelo

This generic gang-war film is like three impressive music videos in search of a movie — which means most of it is superfluous. The aptly named director, Hype Williams, and cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed (Clockers) pile on the slow-mo shots and canted angles in Belly, but nothing in the film intrigues. D

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Posted Apr 23, 1999

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