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Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Good acting, but a little bit too campy
I have always been intrigued with the acting skills of Mekhi Phifer ever since Spike Lee's brilliant Clockers, that's why I remotely enjoyed this film. The cast all around gave good preformances. The problem with it was definetly the way it was filmed and a contadictory message. Actually, there was no message at all, or else it was one burried in clichés. It was exactly like every other "New York-former-gangster" movie, and it had nothing special going for it (as apposed to Clockers, which had a whole underlying plot line to it). No message about Hell's Kitchen at all. This movie was pure mediocracy.
C-
Trainspotting (1996)
Could be the best film of the 90's
When I think of the two words "90s" and "movies", I think Pulp Fiction, Fargo, American Beauty, GoodFellas, Trois Colours, and definetly, Trainspotting.
Trainspotting is a film so beautifully simple, that it's hard to sum up in a maximum of a thousand words. Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) is a twenty-something heroin addict in Scotland. His whole philosophy is you can choose life and have to work for something impure and unfulfilling, or you can choose something else-- addiction, which in his mind is more enjoyable. He is totally ambiguous to the ones around him, which translates to a perfect ending of the film (no spoilers, don't worry).
He finds himself stealing, robbing, and screwing his own parents over to get every hit, but as Renton says himself "it's never good enough". So, it drives him into a "full time business".
Excellent acting by Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremer, Johnny Lee Miller, and Robert Carlyle, accompanied by a winning script by John Hodge (an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's book), and brilliant direction by Danny Boyle (paying homage to Stanely Kubrick) makes this one genius film of a film.
A