Empire R
Two worlds collide.
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Empire (Blu-ray)
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 18, 2003
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | John Leguizamo, Peter Sarsgaard, Denise Richards & Isabella Rossellini | |
Performer: | Nestor Serrano, Rubén Blades, Sônia Braga, Delilah Cotto, Anthony 'Treach' Criss & Fat Joe | |
Directed by | Franc. Reyes | |
Edited by | Peter C. Frank | |
Screenwriting by | Franc. Reyes | |
Composition by | Rubén Blades | |
Produced by | Daniel Bigel & Michael Mailer | |
Director of Photography: | Kramer Morgenthau |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/4 --
The film's hodgepodge plot stumbles down the prototypical path of a gangster's fall from grace with a bit of Boiler Room thrown in for good measure.
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
...Compelling....Leguizamo owns EMPIRE, the first film to capture the live-wire crackle of his one-man stage shows....He holds the screen with a simmering self-assurance...
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 2/4 --
None of this finds an emotional connection, and instead we watch it predictably unfold.
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Mark Reviews Movies
A retread of material already thoroughly plumbed by Martin Scorsese.
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Washington Post
You can take the homey out of the hood, but you can't take the hood out of the homey.
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Boulder Weekly
Rating: 3/5 --
The leads make it watchable (plus it's always a hoot to see Denise Richards onscreen in any form)...
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eFilmCritic.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Even if you haven't seen any of the tell-all television spots, every beat of this crime drama will look and sound familiar.
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TheMovieReport.com
Product Description:
EMPIRE, the debut film from director-writer Frank Reyes is a Latin GOODFELLAS, chronicling the rise and fall of Victor Rosa (John Leguizamo), a Puerto Rican drug-dealer working the violent streets of the South Bronx. With an eye for money and a head for business, Victor dreams of one day achieving the wealth and success of a legitimate businessman. When Victor discovers that his girlfriend Carmen (Delilah Cruz) is pregnant, he jumps at the chance to give up the dangerous drug trade and joins forces with two new friends, Jack (Peter Sarsgaard)--a flashy Wall Street Investment banker, and his girlfriend Trish (Denise Richards). Jack offers Victor a new way of life and promises him access to "sure thing" investments. Eager to go legit, Victor quickly embraces Jack's standards of living. He gives up the streets of the Bronx for Jack's slick Soho loft and moves into the fast-talking, money-driven world of Wall Street. However, Carmen misses the warmth and familiarity of her roots in the South Bronx and Victor is torn between his own ambition and his desire to please her. Ultimately, he realizes too late that Jack and Trish are not all who they seem to be, and his best-laid plans begin to falter as he is forced to accept the magnitude of their betrayal.
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- UPC: 025192305320
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