Synopsis
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. Detective 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.
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Cast
- Harvey KeitelDet. Rocco Klein
- John TurturroDet. Larry Mazilli
- Delroy LindoRodney Little
- Mekhi PhiferRonald 'Strike' Dunham
- Isaiah WashingtonVictor Dunham
- Keith DavidAndré the Giant
- Peewee LoveTyrone 'Shorty' Jeeter
- Regina TaylorIris Jeeter
- Thomas Jefferson ByrdErrol Barnes
- Sticky FingazScientific
Recommendations
- 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
Chicago Sun-Times
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
Los Angeles Times
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
Austin Chronicle
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
ReelViews
Ultimately, Clockers probably attempts too much, and ends up seeming overcrowded as a result. - 75
San Francisco Chronicle
Clockers has the strengths of Lee's best work (passion, humor, terrific acting) without the preachiness, self-importance and gimmicky camera moves of his weakest. - 70
The New York Times
Beyond its grit and nonchalance, this story has a resigned, reflective, hard-earned wisdom that's unusual in an American film about such familiarly lurid subject matter. It's even more unusual in a film by Spike Lee. - 60
Washington Post
The central story itself is not distinctive, and though Lee certainly churns up a lot of dust, he never captures the mythic quality that made Price's original seem so much bigger than its almost generic cast of players.
