Christopher Scott Cherot's drama is an honorable attempt laid low by a verbose script, cheap production values, and a general tendency toward soap opera.
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10/28/05
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G (2002)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:7
Rotten:20
Average Rating:4.6/10
Consensus: Race and class struggles come to the Hamptons in this reworking of The Great Gatsby with a hip-hop flavor. Unfortunately, too many subplots and a lack of believable characters spoil an otherwise novel concept.
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: G is a contemporary African-American romance inspired by the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald story The Great Gatsby. Set amidst the grandeur of the ultra elite Hamptons, G follows self-made... [More]
Starring: Richard T. Jones, Blair Underwood, Chenoa Maxwell, Andre Royo
Director: Christopher Scott Cherot
Reviews for G
There is scarcely a minute's worth of believable human behavior on display in G, which builds to a climax as incoherent as it is ludicrous.
10/28/05
The decadent world of Hamptonite hip-hop moguls is a fitting backdrop for this somewhat faithful but not very graceful retelling of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Great Gatsby.'
10/27/05
Top CriticThe filmmakers are going for something operatic here with their mix of love and loss, rap and race. They miss. By a lot.
10/27/05
Fails both as an update of F. Scott Fitzgerald's dissection of American aspirations and class barriers and on its own boorish terms.
10/27/05
The problem with G is not merely that the ending doesn't work and feels hopelessly contrived. It's also that the plot adds too many unnecessary characters and subplots, so that the main line gets misplaced.
10/27/05
Top CriticIn nimbly sidestepping the burden of textual fidelity, director Christopher Scott Cherot’s freeform Fitzgerald riff captures the novel’s sense of unrequited yearning better than any of Hollywood’s more slavishly faithful attempts.
10/27/05
Top Criticprops for being more ambitious than the average contemporary black romantic drama.
10/27/05
[It] would be a fascinating exercise -- both artistic and anthropological -- if one word of G were authentic, artful or even borderline believable.
09/16/05
The producers may be right to bemoan Hollywood's myopia; but it's the movie's execution, not its vision of an alternative African-American cinema, that delayed its release.
09/16/05
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