Storyline
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager 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, setting out to find the truth, and it seems that all the fingers point toward Strike & Rodney.
Directors
Cast
Keith David, Harvey Keitel, Paul Calderon, J.C. MacKenzie, John Turturro, Michael Badalucco, Harry Lennix, Delroy Lindo, Jeff Ward, Mike Starr, Michael Imperioli, Mekhi Phifer, Spike Lee, Ken Garito, Tim Kelleher, Arthur J. Nascarella, Sticky Fingaz, Leonard L. Thomas, Isaiah Washington, Brendan Kelly, Michael Cullen, Rick Aiello, Paul Schulze, Fredro Starr, Hassan Johnson, Maurice Sneed, Scot Anthony Robinson, Graham Brown, Frances Foster, Peewee Love, Steve White, Norman Matlock, Christopher Wynkoop, Regina Taylor, Skipp Sudduth, David Batiste, Michael McGruther, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, Lisa Arrindell, Ginny Yang, Ron Brice, Elvis Nolasco, Jordan Brown, Lawrence B. Adisa, Shawn McLean, Bray Poor, Craig McNulty, Donald Stephenson, John Fletcher, David Evanson, Isaac Flower, Calvin Hart, Richard Ziman, Mar'qus Sample, Mar'rece Sample, Anthony Nocerino, Brian Konowal, Carlo Vogel, Harvey Williams, Larry Mullane, Patrick Ferraro, L.B. Williams, Ronda Fowler, Hal Sherman, Marc Webster, James Saxenmeyer, Paul DuBois, Michael Marchetta, Joanna Gardner, Mark Howard, Michael Shepherd, Gerald King, Ronta Davis, Lord Kayson, Orran Farmer, Wayne Muhammed, Martin Jaffe, Freddie Velez
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Reviews
90
Washington Post
As always, Lee fills his story with bold, vivid, glib characters who manage to be entertaining even as they flail at one another.
88
Although 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.
80
Clockers, Lee's eighth feature in nine years, demonstrates how accomplished a filmmaker he has become, securely in control of plot, actors and imagery.
78
This is the first Spike Lee Joint that feels more like a mainstream Hollywood cops-in-the-'hood picture and less like one of Lee's recurrent soapboxes.
75
Ultimately, Clockers probably attempts too much, and ends up seeming overcrowded as a result.
