History Film / NewJackCity

New Jack City is a neo-noir film made in [[TheNineties The 90's]] starring IceT and Wesley Snipes. It was directed and co-starred by Mario van Peebles.

* CurbStompBattle: See the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMoA]] above.

* {{Jerkass}}: Nino, to Selina.

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Cancel this bitch! I'll buy another one."

* YouHaveFailedMe: After the police infiltrate the drug operation and the CMB are forced to destroy their station when they capture a police informant, Nino threatens his gang with killing them if they fail him again, stabbing one through the hand to make his point.

* MisaimedFandom: In-universe, Nino is a noted fan of ''Film/{{Scarface}}'', watching Tony Montana's shootout at the end of the movie multiple times and quoting the "the world is yours line" as an inspirational motto. [[spoiler:He probably quits watching before Montana gets shot, or he might have drawn parallels between the Miami drug kingpin's demise and his own possible (and eventual) downfall.]]

** ''{{Scarface}}'' is playing on Tv in Nino's penthouse.

* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Played straight with Nino. He had no idea the middle-aged woman he killed happened to be Scotty's mom.
** Not quite. He didn't know who the victim was, but he ''absolutely'' remembers the actual incident and recounts it to his crew, as it was the first time he killed someone- he was told to kill a random person [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten to prove his loyalty to his new gang.]] We don't actually find out until the very end of the movie that Scotty was after Nino for this, and Nino doesn't deny remembering the incident [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown because Scotty is beating the crap out of him as he tells him this.]]

Rumors of a straight-to-video sequel have popped up, [[DevelopmentHell but has not been offically confirmed as of yet.]]

* BadBoss: Nino can be this at times.

* CatchPhrase: "Rock-a-bye, Baby."

* SmugSnake: Nino's sliminess reaches its epitomy near the end when he makes a deal with the prosecution for a reduced sentence. He gloats to the cop who tried to get him convicted and whose mother he killed years ago to come work for him when he's back on the streets, and praises the American justice system to the press. [[spoiler:He is almost immediately publically killed vigilante-style by an old man whose life he destroyed earlier in the film.]]

* TemptingFate: Nino is just ''begging to be killed''.

* VigilanteExecution: [[spoiler:Druglord Nino Brown walks arrogantly out of the courtroom in front of the police protagonists, confident he will not serve a sentence commensurate with his crimes. The old man who was hounding Brown throughout the film for destroying his neighborhood with his drug trade shoots him dead in the courthouse foyer.]]
* YouHaveFailedMe: After the police infilitrate the drug operation and the CMB are forced to destroy their station when they capture a police informant, Nino threatens his gang with killing them if they fail him again, stabbing one through the hand to make his point.

* DrugsAreBad: The drug ''trade'' is even worse. The ENTIRE movie centers around this trope.

* DrugsAreBad: The ENTIRE movie centers around this trope.

* YouHaveFailedMe: After the police infilitrate the drug operation and the CMB are forced to destroy their station when they capture a police informant, Nino threatens his gang with killing them if they fail him again.

* BulletproofHumanShield: Nino uses a little girl as this in a sickening example.

* SmugSnake: Nino

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Nino.

* MisaimedFandom: In-universe, Nino is a noted fan of ''Film/{{Scarface}}'', watching Tony Montana's shootout at the end of the movie multiple times and quoting the "the world is yours line" as an inspirational motto. [[spoiler:He probably quits watching before Montana gets shot, or he might have drawn parallels between the Miami drug kingpin's demise and his own possible downfall.]]

The film stars WesleySnipes as Nino Brown, a rising crime lord and drug dealer, who takes control of an apartment buliding. But he is opposed by an undercover cop (Ice-T), [[ButForMeItWasTuesday whose mother he killed back in the day.]] And now he vows to stop Nino at all costs.

* ShoutOut: ''{{Scarface}}'' is playing on Tv in Nino's penthouse.
** Not only that, ''SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong'' is being projected at the same time. (doubles as an ActorAllusion, as Van Peebles' dad made that movie and Mario himself is the younger version of the protagonist)

* SpannerInTheWorks: Nino Brown, is able to fast talk his way out of serious prison time, only [[spoiler: to get killed by an old war veteran]] he didn't take seriously during the film.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Nino and the CMB are based on Boston drug lord Darryl Whiting and his crew. Nino's last second outburst in court was directly lifted from Whiting's trial.
** The whole Carter House premise was inspired by the Chambers Brothers of Detroit.

* FairForItsDay: Today we would say this film is trite but at the time it was considered gritty.

* DevelopmentHell: The sequel. Originally planned to begin filming in early 1992 for a Christmas release, the project has been off-and-on in development with no signs of stopping.

* KarmaHoudini: Subverted. Nino manages to get off with a light sentence, but is shot by the old man whose house he had stolen.
* KarmicDeath: Nino gets shot, just like he shot many innocent people.

[[NamesTheSame Not to be cofnused with]] an episode of FatherTed.

* ShoutOut: [[ScarFace Scarface]] is playing on Tv in Nino's penthouse.
** Not only that, ''SweetSweetbacksBaadasssssSong'' is being projected at the same time.
** Also, this film is a reference to the [[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather]].

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: "Cancel this bitch! I'll buy another one." [[CompleteMonster Asshole.]]