For me personally, this is the film that convinced me that Ice Cube was destined to become a major personality in American cinema. Many of the performances recorded here are award-worthy - Fishburne, Bassett, Chesnutt, Gooding, and Ice Cube are especially memorable. losing the identities of big personalities like Fishburne and Ice Cube is no mean feat. The cast disappears into their characters and brings each one to life in a unique and powerful way. The film follows his son, Tre, and his friends, from the hardships of childhood in an irrelevant educational system and a neighborhood which doesn't allow kids to be kids, through to the realities of making decisions about the value of life and the development of responsibility and hope as young adults. Laurence Fishburn leads one of the best casts of the early 1990s, in his memorable portrayal of Furious Styles, a father trying to raise his son (Cuba Gooding Jr) well in an environment where murder and substance abuse are day-to-day realities - South Central L.A.

This is not a hip-hop film, nor a detached and dehumanized story about 'gang violence' (the great over-simplified scapegoat of the issues treated in this film), its a story about growing up fatherless or motherless in a war zone with a faceless enemy, where people do not value each other's lives at all and value their own lives only slightly more. John Singleton's Boyz n the Hood remains one of the best fictionalized and most poignant summaries of some of America's toughest internal problems - racism, violence, poverty, and drug abuse. Reviewed by mstomaso 10 /10 Hard, thoughtful film with messages for everybody

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