Dead Presidents (1995)
Directed by Albert Hughes
On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
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From the opening titles, it’s clear that the Hughes Brothers have matured since their camera-trick heavy years with Menace II Society and Dead Presidents, putting forth a more meditative effort with Book of Eli, which deals with spirituality and cold-blooded survival in a bleak post-apocalyptic world of raw desperation.
The movie also moves along at a fairly decent clip, thanks to its directors, the brothers Albert and Allen Hughes ("Menace II Society," "Dead Presidents," "From Hell").
“Eli” is the work of confident filmmakers — brothers Allen and Albert Hughes (“Dead Presidents”) — and they are in control of every aspect of this great-looking, beautifully acted and emotionally engaging movie.
Book of Eli the ambitious thought-provoking new thriller from brothers Albert and Allen Hughes ( From Hell Dead Presidents ) is in many ways an anomaly in modern Hollywood.
The directors are brothers Albert and Allen Hughes, who made a splash in the early 1990s with gangsta fables “Menace II Society’’ and “Dead Presidents’’ and have struggled to find their footing since.
Hustlers is like if The Wolf of Wall Street had a baby with Dead Presidents , but was high on Pain & Gain during the pregnancy.
Albert and Allen Hughes , whose past credits include the ultraviolent, socially conscious Dead Presidents (1995) and Menace II Society (1993), seem to seek out unsavory characters rather than shy away from them.
As directed by Albert and Allen Hughes ("Menace II Society," "Dead Presidents"), the film is too long, too convoluted, never hugely suspenseful, and notably heavy-handed in its eagerness to depict an utterly black heart at the core of the British Empire.
As helmed by co-directors and siblings Allen and Albert Hughes ("Dead Presidents," "Menace II Society"), the film is an incredibly graphic version of the tale, taken from a rather intriguing point of view detailing the motivation behind the crimes and the lives of the lower class victims affected by them.
Oct. 19, 2001 | Ever since the film was announced, the press has commented on how incongruous it was that Allen and Albert Hughes would stray from the modern urban American milieu of "Menace II Society" and "Dead Presidents" to the Victorian London setting of "From Hell," Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's graphic novel about Jack the Ripper.
Fraternal directing team Albert and Allen Hughes abandon the crime-ridden streets of "Dead Presidents" and "Menace II Society" in favor of the crime-ridden streets of London's Whitechapel District, circa 1888.
The film's talented directors -- brothers Allen and Albert Hughes ("Menace II Society," "Dead Presidents"), definitively demonstrating there's more to them than ghetto fare -- blend quite a transporting concoction with their viscous visuals, menacing moodiness, puzzling plot and heady performances.