A DVD Review: Should you take it out of your Netflix Que?

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In what surely looked like the comedy premise of the century back in the day, Chris Rock plays alderman and community activist Mays Giliams who becomes the first black president of the United States in the comedy opus that is Head Of State. State may be the worst movie in cinema history, but it is probably available to purchase on DVD.

I’ve made my feeling about Rock known: he is the Steve Gutenberg of Black cinema who lays a fart-cloud over very nearly every film he’s cast in, yet still finds work. To be fair, CB4 was brilliant. But everything after that sucks donkey-nuts, and State is no exception. Thank God someone had the good sense to cast Bernie Mac (RIP) to help Rock keep this turd of a film afloat.  Robin Givens, Lynn Whitefield, Tracy Morgan—and Nate Dogg– help fill out the crew of this sinking ship. You watch this film and-I swear to God-everyone except for Rock looks like they are prepared to run off-set screaming. The script, like most of the scripts Rock writes, fails.  He co-writes this with Ali Leroi, which is probably a pseudonym used by some bookie he owes money to, because he sure as shit ain’t a writer.

You should rent this movie and start drinking/toking/snorting the moment you press play. This film only serves cinema as ironic: the kind of film you only watch on mute or while your senses are impaired. Without writer’s writer Nelson George, Rock is best left scribbling comic observations about white people on bar napkins, because there’s a future in that-it’s a growth industry. But if he ever announces he will co-write another film, I pledge to you that I will personally lead a brigade of strap-on bulldykes and hardcore, pipe-hitting niggers and we will hunt and kill Chris Rock.

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