{"id":25569,"date":"2018-08-14T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-14T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=25569"},"modified":"2018-05-04T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T15:25:22","slug":"i-got-the-hook-up-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=25569","title":{"rendered":"I Got the Hook Up (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-got-the-hook-up-58b8d4945f9b58af5c8e6c7f-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25541\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-got-the-hook-up-58b8d4945f9b58af5c8e6c7f-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-got-the-hook-up-58b8d4945f9b58af5c8e6c7f.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/i-got-the-hook-up-58b8d4945f9b58af5c8e6c7f-714x1024.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><br \/>\nBlack and Blue are two street hustlers who run a ghetto superstore. When they take delivery of a load of mobile phones they think they have it made and start selling them like hot cakes. However when their phones interfere with a radio broadcast, sending details of a money stash out over the air, the two men become the target of a local criminal. Meanwhile the mobile phone company are investigating the new numbers when Black&#8217;s girlfriend Lorraine is unable to keep them all covered.<\/p>\n<p>I watched `Barbershop&#8217; a few days ago and gave it a bad review, however now that I&#8217;ve seen this I feel I may have been harsh. This film is awful &#8211; yet more cheap crap banged out by No-Limit to try and add to Master P&#8217;s bank book without any thought of quality control &#8211; how very like everything he does! The plot is, well, non-existent. It is merely a series of stupid jokes and scenes with little cohesion. The whole thing seems to be put together for two reasons, 1) to feed Master P&#8217;s ego and 2) the mis-belief that black people want to see Ricki Lake characters.<\/p>\n<p>An example of 1) is the way that the film goes into a playas club at one point, to allow our `heroes&#8217; to be surrounded by naked black girls &#8211; why? I have no idea but P seems to be having fun. The second thing is seen all through the film in that every character is a joke &#8211; a real annoying joke. Squealing and swearing non-stop every character is irritating and unlikeable and, true to form, any white person is a racist (who is brought low by a black man) or a snivelling nerd. Such lazy writing is just plain annoying and it doesn&#8217;t work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black and Blue are two street hustlers who run a ghetto superstore. When they take delivery of a load of mobile phones they think they have it made and start selling them like hot cakes. 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