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Set in the early 1980s, this entry in the African-American urban gangster genre puts character development in the front seat for a change as it rolls through the Harlem streets on... more...its usual rise-and-fall route. Ace (Wood Harris) starts out a laundry delivery guy, but thanks to a chance encounter with a Latin coke dealer (Esai Morales), he quickly works his way to the top of a drug empire. Mitch (Mekhi Phifer) is his more extroverted, colorful pal, the "born hustler" whose bravado hides a tragic family life. For a while the money just keeps rolling in and everyone's happy, but then comes the inevitable turn to tragedy, heralded by the arrival of the brash, trigger-happy Rico (rapper Cam'ron in his screen debut). A sensitive script and moody direction by Charles Stone III allows PAID IN FULL to sidestep a lot of the cliched glamour of similar films. The violence is realistically depicted, and the ultimate emptiness and paranoia of the lifestyle is allowed to manifest slowly through a nice, low-key performance by Harris. Roc-a-Fella mogul Damon Dash produced, based on the true story of Harlem drug lords he remembers from his childhood, one of whom even served as a technical advisor.

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Karma
A review by dollardollar on Paid in Full
Oct 13, 2008


Author's product rating:   Paid in Full - rated by dollardollar


Advantages: Excellent Film
Disadvantages: Violence

Recommend to potential buyers: yes 

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The settings is around early 80's, This movie is a really old school gangster, the main cast ace was just a small time laundry boy then he met a big time dealer of cocaine, then he start selling those cracks on street until they made a group, they become a real big time hustler in the street, they earning thousands of dollar, this movie is about karma, loyalty as a friend, money, violence, my favorite here is when the people watching a movie, that film was Scarface, Camron is really bad in this movie he kidnapped is brother's friend and killed it because of money, but in the end he also died, ace was the only survivor in this movie although he also got shot, he become a changed man after all the bad things happened to him, this was a great movie, lot's of moral value you can learn, not just a gangsters movie. 
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Story Excellent 
Characters/Performances Excellent 
Special Effects Very impressive 
Soundtrack Excellent 
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