Caught Up (1998)

User Rating:

4.8/10   

Director:

Darin Scott

Writer (WGA):

Darin Scott (written by)

Release Date:

27 February 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

This game has only two rules. Do or die.

Plot:

Daryl gets out of jail after 5 years. His mother has died, his girlfriend is married, and he can't find a job...

Plot Keywords:

Revenge | Cemetery | Flashback Sequence | Nightclub | Chase

Cast

Bokeem Woodbine	...	Daryl
Damon Saleem	...	Trip
Cynda Williams	...	Trish / Vanessa
Jeffrey Combs	...	Security Guard
Shedric Hunter Jr.	...	Jerome
Tony Todd	...	Jake
Joseph Lindsey	...	Billy Grimm
Clifton Powell	...	Herbert / Frank Lowden
Jeris Poindexter	...	Larry
Snoop Dogg	...	Kool Kitty Kat (as Snoop Doggy Dogg)
Doug Kruse	...	Freeway Cop
Darin Scott	...	TV Field Reporter
Marques Johnson	...	Strap (as Marcus Johnson)
Jerry Boyd	...	Mayor Skrote
Michael Clarke Duncan	...	BB

Also Known As:

The Real (USA) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong sexuality, violence and language.

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Germany:18 (video premiere) | USA:R (certificate #35652)

Company:

Heller Highwater Productions

Quotes:

Daryl Allen: I ain't goin' out like no punk

Movie Connections:

References The Terminator (1984)

Soundtrack:

Ride On/Caught Up!

Another dust-collector on videostore shelves.

A poorly written urban crime drama that would have worked better as a sketch in HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, CAUGHT UP stars Bokeem Woodbine as an ex-con trying to go straight. Shortly after his release from prison, he meets Trish (Cynda Williams, whose mediocre performance is in sharp contrast to her impressive work in ONE FALSE MOVE), who's, of all things, a psychic being pursued by an evil Rastafarian from whom she stole a huge diamond. Instead of staying the hell away from this apparently high-maintenance love interest (she's beautiful, you see) and trying to reconnect with his former squeeze, he agrees to help her. Every stereotype and cliché is used, as well as howlingly bad dialogue ("Nobody was waiting for me but a dude named destiny") and the perfunctory hip-hop cameos. This film seems to have been made solely to promote its accompanying soundtrack, but with hardly any rap music included in the movie, what exactly was the point of all this?