Word: roemello
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...touching portrayal of one men's struggle to escape the drug trade when its storyline does not hold together. The film stars Wesley Snipes and Michael Wright as two brothers caught in a world of drugs, violence and warring factions in Harlem's swanky district, Sugar Hill, Snipes plays Roemello, the younger, more level-headed brother to Raynathan (Wright), a nervous, unguided and violent man who sees no way out and doesn't know how to maneuver from the inside. While each of these actors deliver strong acting jobs, their talent cannot overcome the horror of the cliche-ridden, predictable...
Imagine: (it should not be hard because we have all seen it before), Roemello, whose conscience has gotten the best to him, wants to get out of the racket. His older, helpless brother, Raynathan, desperately wants him to stay because he needs his guidance. Roemello wants to leave the neighborhood where the nightmares that plague him occurred; he witnessed his father's beating by the cops, his mother's heroin overdose, his father's further demise through addiction. Yet all of these scenes enter the film at seemingly random times. They give background to the plot but seem only...
This film sounds more cohesive in description than it was on the screen. With the two opposing forces in his life the audience supposedly sees the Roemello's conflict. But the way the story runs it feels as though the writer and director could not make up their mind whether they wanted a love story or a gangster movie. When one seems to be progressing nicely, the film cut to the other. I have never seen the two genres successfully integrated, save once, with Martin Scorcese's "Goodfellas." "Sugar Hill" certainly does not live up to the standards of that...
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