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Special Features
- Behind the Scenes Footage
- 3 Music Videos
- Deleted Scenes
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A small-time Philly street hood (Beanie Siegel) sets out to form his own posse and make a name for himself in the drug "business," but discovers that the life he's made for himself comes with a heavy price, in this intense urban gangsta drama. Jay-Z, Damon Dash and Sundy Carter also star. 93 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, Spanish; theatrical trailer; deleted scenes; music videos; behind-the-scenes footage.
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Is everybody smoking junk? 5 STARS? This movie was an embarassment to the African-American race. The actors(rappers)in this movie have such a stronghold on today's youth...if your gonna make a movie, why not make a movie about something positive? You could argue that the end of the movie made a statement in that Beans glory was shortlived and there is no future in that life, was that the message? Why make a movie that has been made so many times already? This story has been told 100 times over. Lets do something different and make a movie with substance that we can be proud of..as a young African-American male, I was truly embarassed watching this movie. Is this all we are capable of? One day I hope we wake up and understand...
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This was a travesty...I gave it one star because i could not let me submit this with none. The acting was terrible to say the least. I give them credit for trying...but what this seemed like to me was a prosperous record label, that had more money than it knew what to do with, trying to venture into filmaking....just because they could.
NOW...for the review
This was a travesty...I gave it one star because i could not let me submit this with none. The acting was terrible to say the least. I give them credit for trying...but what this seemed like to me was a prosperous record label, that had more money than it knew what to do with, trying to venture into filmaking....just because they could.
16 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
This is a terrible movie that I gave 1 star because I couldn't give any fewer. It features the usual idols given primarily to the black youth of today, hip hoppers playing gangstas who have no respect for anything or anyone other than money. It is another one of those blaxploitation specials in which there is literally no figure of any redeeming value. This explains the almost endless series of beatings, shootings, and overall ignorance portrayed in sequence, and served up as some sort of story. It's only entertainment they say, but they are typecast without even knowing it, foolishly dying to portray a fantasy image...psychologically bound as tight as any slave was ever shackeled.
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
"State Property," a hip-hop variation of the "Scarface" tale, is so reprehensible it approaches a snuff eight-millimeter. Like a lot of rap music, which thinks the existence of wanton cruelty, violence and pain automatically legitimizes a song drawing out its every crass detail, the movie is a cheerfully amoral romp through all the horrible, totalitarian things one bully can do to a weaker person - humiliation, dehumanization, torture, murder - with a turn of the tables at the end that supposed to comment on this romp as if it was all very, very bad. Sure. Ask the film's admirers - or even the participants, including indicted star Beanie Siegel - where they stand on the use of force to snuff out anything - enemies, annoyances, acquaintances, even friends - that interfere with their designs of all-consuming power. Dictators rise on such thoughts.
Siegel plays a local criminal who, after a thug epiphany of sorts at a topless bar, wipes out legions of drug dealers in an effort to carve out turf. There are stockpiles of men willing to do his bidding while he watches on in his neon-colored swish-swish outfit, pawing at a fence like some caged animal -yes, I'm not kidding, Siegel paws - as a mass execution goes down on a basketball court. To show he is some kind of leader, Siegel occasionally spits out obvious truisms; to show he has a trace of humanity, the movie trots a girlfriend and child across the screen, the idea being if you have them, you must be something less than a total bogeyman, although such accoutrements didn't excuse Stalin, or Saddam.
Because "State Property" cannot possibly condone this behavior for an entire movie, Siegel eventually matches up against an equal armed foe and the fate that's predetermined for a straight-away lunatic like him.
Unlike Hype Williams' "Belly," which very much wanted to have a message but buried it under the pyrotechnics of cars, girls and jewelry needed to pull young black audiences into the theaters, "State Property" has no aspirations beyond being hard and cold. Directed by Tron Anderson and produced by Siegel's music producer, Damon Dash, the movie is borne out of an appalling, but unsurprising, ignorance of what makes a life worth living. There is no hope, just a few fleeting moments of material wealth, booties and gun-toting power trips.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Horrible Movie!
One of the worst movies I've ever seen, in my life. I would give it zero stars if I could.
Published 7 months ago by Blanca Estela Sanchez
Great
Enjoyed very much. If you like gangster movie you will love this. A must see, a lot of street actions.
Published 8 months ago by G D
Why Is Black Crime More Villified Than White Crime?
I would not encourage anyone to follow the gangster lifestyle portrayed in this movie. That said, how can people find redeeming values in movies like THE GODFATHER, SCARFACE,... Read more
Published 10 months ago by Book Power
This movie should be confiscated
I love Beanie Sigel. He is the most underrated rapper out of Rocafella Records but this movie stunk like roadkill. Read more
Published on March 21, 2008 by Nuisance
STATE Property
this is a classic gangster movie already, anyone whos into the whole block scene should add this to their collection.
Published on January 27, 2007 by Kenny
bangin DVD for real cuz
MAN HOLD UP this movie was f#cc%n gangsta 5 muthaf#cc%n stars those who apose can either get down or lay down and if you lay down you gon stay down
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Published on November 25, 2006 by Patrick
Rappers, Stop Acting!
I watched ten minutes of Beanie Seagal trying to act and turned my DVD player off to read a book. I had to. Read more
Published on April 25, 2005 by Shamontiel L. Vaughn
State property review
I think that this movie was really good. It had all of the things a movie should have. It had guns, drugs, and lots and lots of money. Read more
Published on April 23, 2004 by herman price
BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAD
This is a really, really, really, really, bad movie. Don't watch it, don't buy , don't even think about this movie, you may get brain damage. Read more
Published on October 14, 2003 by "cribnotes25"
Stereotypes Appalling
8/15/03 Saw this video from the middle..someone had not rewound it..although the parts I did see summarized the video quite well... Read more
Published on August 15, 2003
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