Dir: Bill Duke
Year: 1992
Cast: Laurence Fishburne, Jeff Goldblum
Genre: Crime/Drama/Action.
Cert: 18
Deep Cover is the story of an L.A.P.D Police officer named Russell Stevens Jr. who's father was a drug addict and thief and was killed in front of his eyes. From then on he vowed never to touch drugs and to try get drugs off the streets. He is put undercover as a drug dealer named John Hull in order to try get close to the largest drug importer in L.A and nephew of the Colombian foreign minister, Anton Gallegos. The only way to do that is to earn the trust of a lawyer/drug trafficker named David Jason, who will help him rise to the top and get close to Gallegos. But living as a drug dealer may be getting to his head as he is now involved in a world of hard drug dealing and violence and he doesn't even know whether he's good or bad anymore.
This was a relatively decent movie, I thought it was going to be different than it was, a more Menace II Society or Boyz N' The Hood type movie, but was more of a straight up crime thriller. About 10 minutes of it had that feel I was looking for. Though it wasn't what I expected, I still enjoyed it. Some very dodgey scenes in the movie that were rather unnecessary really and didn't help it in anyway, namely some 80's looking Morris Chestnut look-a-like using Terminator dialogue at any given moment and a stripping nun followed by probably the shittiest intimidation technique, playing a game of fuckin' hand slaps. Proper primary school type carry-on. Not long after that there was about 3 minutes of comedy GOLD. All unintentional and caused by very shitty acting. Throughout the movie both Fishburne and Goldblum were fairly decent, but I have no fucking clue what happened in those 3 minutes, Fishburne screaming like a high pitched girls fart and Goldblum saying the most un-intimidating, mono-tone "Mother Fuckerrrrrrrrrrrrrr". Literally like that. But besides those few things it wasn't half bad, it had good action scenes, a decent story and a brilliant theme song, which oddly was cut even though fuck is used several times throughout the movie. That song is Deep Cover by Dr. Dre with Snoop Dogg, Look it up, its class. Also thought it was an odd one from Bill Duke, I never knew he was a director till I heard about this. But lets face it, it's not his most bizarre, he did in fact direct fuckin' Sister Act 2, of all films... And has an interesting sneaky cameo in this in a photograph out of focus in a police station.
I'd recommend this to someone who wants...Lethal Weapon 3, with no intended comedy and a slightly ghetto setting. So yeah, it's worth a look.
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