Strictly Business

1991

Action / Comedy / Romance

9
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 10% · 10 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 56% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.5/10 10 2438 2.4K

Director

Kevin Hooks Photo
Kevin Hooks

Top cast

Samuel L. Jackson Photo
Samuel L. Jackson as Monroe
Halle Berry Photo
Halle Berry as Natalie
Victor Slezak Photo
Victor Slezak as Maitre D'
Anne-Marie Johnson Photo
Anne-Marie Johnson as Diedre
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670.96 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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1.23 GB
1904*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 23 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by UnknownDoomer 5 / 10

Unlucky traders

Sketches from the everyday life of a successful New York office, with varying results achieving its goals by selling real estate, ranging from detached expensive buildings to entire neighborhoods. There are two African Americans on its staff. The first is a trader named Wayon, drowning in work 24/7, aiming for the position of a business partner, «whiter than other whites». The second is a typical street slob and party animal, leading his way, apparently, from somewhere in Harlem, in his own way reflecting the context of his era, a guy named Bobby. He barely holds on to the role of a messenger, delivering and sorting documents of varying importance, periodically causing the wrath of the episodically appearing boss in the person of Samuel L. Jackson.One day, opposites working in the same structure, but coming from different worlds, will have to collide, as Wayon really liked an unfamiliar beauty in the person of Halle Berry. Bobby will help Wayon find «his dream», and Wayon will help Bobby move up a few notches in business, where the term «stepping on heads» is not rude at all, but a factual reality. In general a fairly standard and classic plot twist, with some adjustments for the «street» specifics, a light melodrama, with a dash of comedy.Actually, this very «lightness» becomes the other side of the coin - there is no high-flown dramaturgy or conventionally complex messages here, and you can't expect anything in the spirit of Spike Lee's «Jungle Fever», released in the same 1991, where Halle Berry also managed to make her mark in one of her earliest and rather atypical roles. The film also does not claim the laurels of «Wall Street» (1987). To a greater extent, there is a set of purely situational, topical sketches, strung together on a common, rather conventional plot line and placed in a not very long running time of one hour and twenty minutes, but devoid of any depth. The film is generally not bad, but does not stand out in any special way.
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Reviewed by LivingDog 6 / 10

Before they were stars?

This is a cute little flick in which many actors, who later get more fame, appear in the same film.

Tommy Davidson (In Living Color, stand-up comedian), Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction and Star Wars?), Halle Berry (some movie where she got an Oscar for some reason), Denis Leary (stand-up comedian known for his song "A..hole"), and Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest) get together in this not too interesting flick about business as usual.

It's simple formula works for people in their teens. It has a "70's" feel to it that makes it not worth watching. I found it interesting to see them all together before they became more famous. Halle Berry *is* adorable.

The ending is incredibly drawn out. I kept screaming in my head "END IT, PLEASE END IT!" 6/10

-Zafoid

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