Full Clip (2004) User Reviews

Don't Rent it for the acting

[chrome38 · 4/10 · 15 April 2005]

This movie is basically like a 90 minute music video I like rap, gangster action movies, and it has all of the above. For some reason, someone thinks, if they can sing/rap, then i guess the can act. Thats like letting your psychiatrist take the place of your surgeon and do open heart surgery because they're both doctors.

It has lots of action, which is good. The music is good if you like rap. It even has a decent plot. However, it has some of the worst acting I've seen since hitmans run(search it on IMDb lol). I'm sure full clip has more of a budget than hitmans run, and it is definitely better.

Just don't watch this movie expecting a great movie. Like i said its more like a music video. If you can find a trailer I'm sure you can see some of the bad acting in it.

If you REALLY like rap movies, then you would probably enjoy this. Another movie like this, Never Die Alone with DMX(not that good but better than this) might be an alternative suggestion. It has better acting but is kind of strange.

The Incoherence of Rap

[tributarystu · 3/10 · 13 September 2004]

The adventures of a certain hero Pope hits it off in a pathetic Equlibrium style (not even Neo) and flow toward the so predictable. I guess this is the movie about the bad white guy up to a point, then comes the story of the bad black guy, followed by the revenge of the hero - all action packed in the adventures of this Pope dude. It's really bad and clichéd - script wise - and the one name director makes it seem even less original and inciting. The best thing this movie does is offer some great insight to the characters...especially the female ones.

Its hardly possible to count all the things which are wrong in the film (absurd and pointless characters, to name just one), so I won't even bother trying. In my twisted mind I came to compare it to the "rap style" - a style I am not really fond of: it's contradictory and violent, while trying to convey its "message". It proves that rap should restrain to its three minute long songs, rather than one and a half hour long movies. The material simply doesn't suffice.

I wasn't hoping for much, but I got nothing at all.

[euphoria_aus · 18 July 2004]

I understand that these sort of "Gangsta" flicks don't exactly rely on a complicated plot line or interesting character developments. I wasn't hoping for much, but I got nothing at all. The plot isn't just basic it's stupidly boring, for the first 40 minutes Busta Rhymes drives around in his 64 talking to the various bad actors scattered along the most boring setting one could ever pick for a gangster flick.

Although not classics, movies featuring rap stars are usually entertaining in the past, that is not the case with Full Clip. Watching paint dry is more interesting than seeing Busta Rhymes trying to make something out of this mess.

Full Clip is filled with unfunny conversations about nothing in particular, there is not a single interesting character in this movie. The acting is just as bad as the dialogue. I think this movie will disappoint even the most ignorant teenybopper viewers.

I'd rather eat tacks

[pistolgrippump25 · 1/10 · 28 December 2004]

I'm a person who really likes movies and really likes rap. I saw this movie had Xzibit in it so I gave it a shot. This was by far the most horrible movie I've ever seen....worse than Annaconda. For god sake...the movie has glitches IN THE MOVIE, it's not the disc. The blood looks like hot candle wax...and let's not forget about the scene where Busta Rhymes shoots a camera and it blows up as if it was a crate of C4. Do yourself a favor, go see Reservoir Dogs, Snatch, Fight Club, Boondock Saints, or some other good movie. And if you want to see a good black gangster movie with rappers in it...see Paid in Full...that's a great movie with a good cast and fantastic acting. Hope this was helpful...wish I could have read something like this before I went to see this movie.

I might've gone blind, this was so horribly, awfully bad!

[Germinator · 1/10 · 28 March 2006]

Oh, man. Anyone who ever went to film school has seen footage as bad as this. During the viewing of your classmates' first film class assignments. Mink (I love how he's too cool for school and doesn't want people to know his real name) truly has no clue where to put the camera, or what to tell his "actors", or what directing means.

One of my favorites is a dialogue scene outside someone's apartment or store, I think, and some lady keeps sweeping with a broom all over the place while two other people exchange painfully bad dialogue. Never mind that there's no dirt on the ground to sweep (1) or that her way of sweeping would've spread the dirt all over the place had there been any (2), or the fact that the blocking is so uninspired that most of the time you must wonder who's speaking, and more importantly, why (3). So you succumb to the horror, which is SO painful to watch, the only way to cope with the level of badness is to laugh uncontrollably at the horrific performances by (of course) rappers (as we all know, when you can string rhymes together, clearly you're more than qualified to act in motion pictures, too. No more training is required). My recommendation: (w)rap this piece of crap and put it where it belongs: in the garbage.

Offbeat "noirish" hip hop action comedy

[bmdevon · 9/10 · 24 July 2004]

A slow-paced but "noirish" action comedy, Bustah Rhymes is perfect as a tough guy who unwittingly goes to collect his inheritance and ends up in a fight with a local sheriff. This is a whole lot better than the predictable, hip hop movie formulaic drivel that Hollywood insists on releasing. Xzibit and Spliff are good comic relief as his sidekicks that get greedy. Bubba"Hightower"Smith shows up as a talkative Hotel manager.

This quirky tale loosely interlaced around a western has a weird funeral director and ellen cleghorn as a sidewalk psychic "Mistress Cleo" type. This was a very offbeat film which really didn't go anywhere but was still interesting and amusing. I appreciated all the cool action with the dual pistols Joshua pope had. Wyclef jean is very good as the guitar playing prophet and narrator of Pope. The film had good energy and cool art direction, well worth watching.

remake of Bucktown

[249 · 6/10 · 10 May 2006]

Basically an updated remake of Bucktown......

with Bus as Fred Williamson.......and that pretty model in the Pam Grier role.

This is halfway decent flick that could have been a great and funny B movie.... good performances from X to the Z, and from Spliff Starr as a "latino thug"...... I tried to watch the entire flick without pushing the fast forward button...but after 3 attempts..I just gave up.

Busta has good screen presence..but this director does him dirty by shooting this movie like it was an After School Special.He tries his best fill the "Hammer's" on screen shoes though with tough talk, swagger, and beat downs galore...

The model in Pam Grier's role.....cannot fill her shoes..or her bra, for that matter.....she's cleavage deprived..fortunately...one of the women playing Bus' father's girlfriend has more than enough cleavage to make up for that. Her name is Masasa....and her cleavage baring wake-weeping shot steals the scene......

She is fully developed......which is the opposite of what I can say for this film......Full Clip is really only shell casings....

Bad Picture

[chrisives · 16 July 2004]

I've seen this movie, where to begin? It stars Busta Rhymes and Xzibit as lead characters, with a weak plot. Horrible dialogue and scenes. It may sound strange, but XZibit and Rhymes being the lead characters wasn't the main reason this picture failed. I think if they had a supporting plot, character relations and dialogue it would have been sub-par, compared to just plain horrible.

The plot follows Rhymes' character 'Pope' who is returning to the town where his father was killed. Thats about as deep as the story goes right there. Some shotty action scenes complemented by no real direction bring this "picture" to a close.

Don't see it unless you like critiquing.

Lack of a lot of things

[Sej920 · 22 July 2009]

even tho i read a lot of people nagging about the movie i still thought that it starring busta rhymes and xzibit it couldent be that bad, i guess they're acting was aight but was directed horribly the story made absolutely no sense what so ever, maybe because of all the pointless chit chats in the movie, got pretty tired of listening to random people recognizing him for the popes son, the fight scenes wasn't that entertaining either, think the only good part of this movie was the shooting scenes, since they obviously didn't have enough money to direct this movie right, it didn't really turn out as good as it could have, even tho some sexy girls and famous rappers was starring in this movie. i would no recommend buying this movie...

A promising start, but bad plot/acting make this a movie to avoid

[Marcus_Calvert · 18 July 2004]

The movie opens with a nice shoot-out scene, unfortunately the movie goes downhill from that point on.

The following 87 minutes of the movie feature some of the worst acting I've seen in a long time. And it's not just the main character, played by Busta Rhymes, it's almost everyone in the entire movie (how is this possible?). With action movies I don't think an original plot is a necessity, although its preferable, but the dialogue/acting is pretty bad, so bad actually, I could hardly put myself up to watch the entire piece.

To sum it up: the action-scenes are OK I guess, not very good but entertaining. However the acting is pretty bad (pretty = really) and the plot is non-existent. If you can't help yourself, rent it, if you're smart, you'll spend the 90 minutes you need to watch this movie doing something more useful and fun, like re-arranging your sock drawer.

My opinion: 3/10 (and I'm being lenient)