Synopsis
Four boyhood friends return to New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina, to find their home decimated and prospects for work swept away. Turning to a local gangster for employment, the crew is hired to pull off a daring casino heist, right in the heart of the city.
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Cast
- Shameik MooreBlink
- Demetrius Shipp Jr.Miracle
- Denzel WhitakerAndre
- Keean JohnsonJunior
- Kat GrahamDemyra
- T.I.Lorenzo «Cousin» Bass
- Terrence HowardThe Saint
- Rob MorganCourtney
- Eiza GonzálezLucinda Benoit
- Ethan HawkeJackson Symms
Recommendations
- 80
The New York Times
The reversals the characters suffer across the movie’s running time are epic, and the movie’s finale unfolds to genuinely startling effect. - 75
Slant Magazine
Cut Throat City is still an ambitious and volatile film, an atmospheric survey of the thankless world of the rich and the damned. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
Cut Throat City ends on a note that’s too clever by half, but that doesn’t undercut all the vibrant, rough-edged, impressive storytelling that led to that moment. - 70
Los Angeles Times
The action sequences are almost an afterthought. “Cut Throat City” is a more thoughtful and personal film, concerned with how systemic racism — and zoning ordinances — can kill more people than a gun. - 67
Austin Chronicle
As COVID-19 widens the gap between the rich and the poor in communities across the country, Cut Throat City’s institutional assault feels sadly timely. - 63
Washington Post
This makes for an entertaining, if familiar ride. - 60
Variety
Cut Throat City has vivid moments, but RZA’s direction is better than P.G Cuschieri’s script. The film is a muddled social-protest thriller that tries to bridge the corrupt machinations upstairs with the desperation of the streets, and can’t find a way to connect them convincingly. - 60
The Hollywood Reporter
Cut Throat City will doubtless grab the attention of RZA’s diverse fanbase, but looks unlikely to make a significant mark among contemporary crime dramas.
