![]() Screaming fits, cussing and counter-cussing, passenger dumpings and even fistfights last all the way to Oakland. The running Justice-Lucky battle continues in the front seat, while Chicago and Iesha mix it up in the back. Lucky finds himself in a road movie with the poet from hell. Chicago invites Lucky and fate is sealed. When Lucky's workmate Chicago (Joe Torry) takes girlfriend Iesha (Regina King) on a scenic mail run to Oakland (free ride, privacy, sea view), she brings along pal Justice. As you might imagine, this is just the beginning. But the funereally dressed, reclusive hairdresser puts him in his place. Lucky, a nose-ringed, backward-capped mail carrier, tries the tired old pickup routine on Justice. ![]() Romantic battle lines between Justice and Lucky are drawn upon first meeting. Who needs to charge up a movie with bloody gang rivalry when you've got something far more vindictive and scary: the war between the sexes? As far as he's concerned, there's drama to be found among the survivors - riveting, funny and even poetic stuff. If Singleton keeps the sex and violence close at hand, it's only because these things regularly touch the lives of his characters - as the film's explosive beginning demonstrates.īut Singleton concentrates on human rather than hammer action, on foibles rather than feuds. Writer/director John Singleton returns to the troubled neighborhood of his "Boyz N the Hood." But this time, he uses the social ills as a reality backdrop for a rap-screwball romance between Janet Jackson (a poet-sister by the name of Justice) and Tupac Shakur (a happy-go mailman called Lucky). In short, it's got everything you'd ever want in a love story. It doesn't lack for gangland slayings, fistfighting, drug dealing and crack use. "Poetic Justice" contains more cussing ("bitch," " 'ho" and that familiar M-word) than the last three black gang pictures.
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