DMX is vengeful, mean, and ruthless.
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03/21/04
Never Die Alone (2004)
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Reviews Counted:88
Fresh:23
Rotten:65
Average Rating:4.1/10
Consensus: DMX's menacing charisma is put to good use in this stylish but hackneyed modern-day noir.
Runtime: 89 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Based on cult novelist Donald Goines’ novel of the same name, NEVER DIE ALONE is a richly literate film noir about King David (DMX), a hard-boiled, stylish criminal who returns to his hometown... [More]
Starring: DMX, David Arquette, Michael Ealy, Reagan Preston-Gomez
Director: Ernest R. Dickerson
Reviews for Never Die Alone
An incredibly violent and technically shoddy but undeniably absorbing black gangster movie.
03/25/04
What starts as a routine pimp film segues into an exercise in intrigue, thanks to some snappy editing and savvy performances.
03/23/04
A pimped-up facsimile of David Goines' novel. I can't think of a more apt description of this misogynist and deeply flawed film noir.
03/29/04
Never Die Alone has the allure of a bad traffic accident. You don't want to look at it, but for some reason you can't avert your eyes.
03/26/04
This 'gangsta noir' is a worthy heir to both 'blaxploitation' and to the Warner Bros. gangster classics that linked economic hardship and the allure of crime...
03/30/04
Purports to be literate film noir but comes off more like the overwritten project of a film school kid who just memorized his textbook on the style.
03/25/04
a haunting, well-written and powerfully acted film, burdened only by its moral impotence and one irrefutably underwritten contrivance: Aruqette's character.
03/24/04
It's hard to imagine a more disturbingly woman-hating movie than Never Die Alone.
03/26/04
His death was moving; his life was not. It's a requiem for a scumbag--one who left a whole lotta decent people destroyed in his wake.
04/16/04
A flashy but ultimately routine saga of gangsta criminality and payback.
03/26/04
Ernest Dickerson's Goth-like vision of this troubling tale about the dark side of human nature encapsulates the film noir genre.
03/26/04
There's neither action nor thrill in this so-called action thriller, and there's really no reason to sit through it.
04/02/04
DMX isn't up to the acting needed to play an epic anti-hero, but then director/ex-cinematographer Ernest Dickerson never makes Never very epic on any level.
03/25/04
Although the flashbacks within flashbacks within some more flashbacks structure is overly convoluted, Dickerson's visual flair and Stephen Lovejoy's crisp editing actually make the story easy to follow, if not to believe.
03/26/04
The only good thing about Never Die Alone is its rap-retro soundtrack.
03/26/04
This is a violence-ridden movie with one of the most despicable characters you ever will see.
03/31/04
Never Die Alone is soft and squishy, lacking tension and suspense, not to mention logic.
03/25/04
This is not a workable drama, just a series of ideas that rap stars who worship Scarface think would be cool to see.
07/28/04
The only thing that could improve Never Die Alone is a caring projectionist, a lighter, and a trashcan.
03/26/04
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