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As for the audio, we get a new 7.1 surround DTS-HD soundtrack, which does justice to its’ west coast hip-hop soundtrack. It was supervised by DOP Lisa Rinzler and co-director Albert Hughes. The new restoration is a huge improvement over the 2009 Blu-ray. We want to see Ronnie and her son not become another statistic and we want to see her influence Caine to change his priorities, though that may not be possible, as he makes one bad decision after another. Tate is a scene stealer here and Pinkett also gives us a character that we truly care about. Menace II Society may not carry the same emotional weight as Singleton’s Boyz in the Hood, it still has quite a lot to offer. While Ronnie would love him to move across the country with her, Caine doesn’t want to leave his life of slinging dope in L.A. It is obvious how much he cares for both of them, and the mother and son clearly care for Caine. There is a beacon of light in Caine’s life, Ronnie (Jada Pinkett) and her little boy, who happens to be the son of an incarcerated friend.
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In an area filled with dangerous people, O-Dog might be the most terrifying of all. It doesn’t help that Caine’s best friend, O-Dog (Larenz Tate in a breakout performance) is one of the wildest in the city and could care less about shooting someone to death in broad daylight.
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Both of his parents died when he was young due to drugs and his grandparents took him in, though there was only so much they could do to try to raise him right. Set in the streets of Watts, Los Angeles in the early 1990’s, Menace II Society centers on Caine (Tyrin Turner), an intelligent teenager who has been was not able to avoid a life of crime. I was sent the Blu-ray for review purposes. The latter has been given a much-deserved 4K restoration of the film’s director’s cut, which is available on either 4K UHD or Blu-ray. A few of the standouts were Juice, Dead Presidents and Menace II Society. With the huge success of Boyz in the Hood and New Jack City in 1991, we began to see more urban-set films hit the theaters in the years that followed. Now available on Special Edition Blu-ray is The Hughes Brothers 1993 crime-drama Menace II Society, courtesy of Criterion Collection.