this movie brings to mind boys n the hood and menace to society and south central and others of its ilk and even shares actors with some of them. the film us vs. the law mentality is underscored by the all black neighborhood vs. the nearly all white police force. here the cops are so bad they seem like caricatures and in one scene they even ambush the boys as they drive by in a car they have just liberated from its owner. it like a bushwhacking from an old western and but the contemporary setting makes it look all too real. the story centers on young jason petty and his buddies and to whom school is just an inconvenience that takes time away from their real occupation of boosting cars. this happens to be newark and n. j. and a rust belt city low on jobs but notoriously high on crime. in fact the problem is so severe that the cops all have car theft written on their backs and to show that an entire unit must be devoted to this particular crime. the boys use a slim jim to gleefully break into cars and go joy riding and as if it no big deal. they only run into real trouble when the police ambush them. the vicious and nazi like lt. has a vendetta against the boys and seeing them not as human beings who might be worthy of redemption and but as human targets. in fact and he a little reminiscent of that sadistic nazi officer of the warsaw ghetto and who shot down jews for pleasure in the film schindler list. when the boys steal a police car in retribution for the ambush and things predictably go downhill fast. they are severely beaten by the cops and jason finally ends up in prison. clearly these are bad boys and who would steal your car in a minute and but the film wants us to see them as anti heroes and showing jason protecting his sister and his friend taking care of his own grandmother. the film left us wondering whose side to take and who to feel sadder for represent the boys whose lives are going down the drain and the honest citizens whose cars are being stolen left and right and who could be caught in the crossfire of a shootout at any moment or the city of newark itself and the spirit of whose law is being betrayed by brutal and soul dead cops. in spite of the over the top portrayal of the latter and the film offers a realistic looking rendering of the ghetto and of the protagonists and their families and of the culture of car theft in a city where there appears to be only 2 career paths  law enforcement and crime. strangely and the entire subject of drugs is never mentioned. the filmmakers (including producer spike lee) are obviously biased against the newark police and who and we hope and are not as bad they are portrayed here. nevertheless and they have given us yet another a strong and affecting story about the inner city and black youth gone awry and sharron corley is fine as jason. 
this movie brings to mind boys n the hood and menace to society and south central and others of its ilk and even shares actors with some of them. the film us vs. the law mentality is underscored by the all black neighborhood vs. the nearly all white police force. here the cops are so bad they seem like caricatures and in one scene they even ambush the boys as they drive by in a car they have just liberated from its owner. it like a bushwhacking from an old western and but the contemporary setting makes it look all too real. the story centers on young jason petty and his buddies and to whom school is just an inconvenience that takes time away from their real occupation of boosting cars. this happens to be newark and n. j. and a rust belt city low on jobs but notoriously high on crime. in fact the problem is so severe that the cops all have car theft written on their backs and to show that an entire unit must be devoted to this particular crime. the boys use a slim jim to gleefully break into cars and go joy riding and as if it no big deal. they only run into real trouble when the police ambush them. the vicious and nazi like lt. has a vendetta against the boys and seeing them not as human beings who might be worthy of redemption and but as human targets. in fact and he a little reminiscent of that sadistic nazi officer of the warsaw ghetto and who shot down jews for pleasure in the film schindler list. when the boys steal a police car in retribution for the ambush and things predictably go downhill fast. they are severely beaten by the cops and jason finally ends up in prison. clearly these are bad boys and who would steal your car in a minute and but the film wants us to see them as anti heroes and showing jason protecting his sister and his friend taking care of his own grandmother. the film left us wondering whose side to take and who to feel sadder for represent the boys whose lives are going down the drain and the honest citizens whose cars are being stolen left and right and who could be caught in the crossfire of a shootout at any moment or the city of newark itself and the spirit of whose law is being betrayed by brutal and soul dead cops. in spite of the over the top portrayal of the latter and the film offers a realistic looking rendering of the ghetto and of the protagonists and their families and of the culture of car theft in a city where there appears to be only 2 career paths  law enforcement and crime. strangely and the entire subject of drugs is never mentioned. the filmmakers (including producer spike lee) are obviously biased against the newark police and who and we hope and are not as bad they are portrayed here. nevertheless and they have given us yet another a strong and affecting story about the inner city and black youth gone awry and sharron corley is fine as jason. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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