Back in the Day (2005)

Director:

James Hunter

Writers:

James Hunter (writer)
Michael Raffanello (writer)

Release Date:

3 November 2005 (Iceland)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Tagline:

Sometimes it's hard to tell your friends from your enemies

Plot:

In BACK IN THE DAY, Reggie Cooper (Ja Rule), a young man from the rough side of the tracks who lives with his divorced...

US TV Schedule:

Wed. July 30	6:20 PM	TMC
Fri. Aug. 1	5:15 PM	SHOW
Thur. Aug. 7	6:35 PM	SHOW

Cast

Tatyana Ali	...	Alicia Packer
Rafa Alvarez	...	Detective Spray
Paul Benjamin
Jan Rene Benvenutti	...	First Officer at Mall
Tia Carrere	...	Loot
Badja Djola	...	Grant Brown
Giancarlo Esposito	...	Benson Cooper, Reggie's Dad
Norman Grant	...	Physician
Pam Grier	...	Mrs. Cooper
Jamie Harper	...	Jamal's Girl
Stephen Kough	...	Vincent Cooper
Frank Langella	...	Lt. Bill Hudson
Julio 'Joel' Lopez	...	Ricky
Peter A. Marshall
Jamie McCall	...	Cocktail Waitress
Erika Michels	...	Maria Patillo - Reporter (as Erika Michels Brown)
Debbi Morgan	...	Mrs. Packer
Joe Morton	...	Rev. James Packer
Ving Rhames	...	J-Bone
Rodolfo Rodriguez	...	Mugger
Ja Rule	...	Reggie
Al Sapienza	...	DET. Kline
Davetta Sherwood	...	Tosha Cooper
Peter Somech	...	Phillip the Vendor
Lahmard J. Tate	...	Jamal

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some sexuality.

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color (FotoKem)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Iceland:16 | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Puerto Rico

Quotes:

J-Bone: I didn't kill anybody that didn't deserve it.

Not good - overrated - and that's just my vote

Why did I buy this movie on DVD?, Well the short answer would be: I really don't know. As for the longer version, it pretty much comes down to the fact that I genuinely like Tatyana Ali and she plays Alicia in this.

Now does Tatyana Ali give a genuinely good effort in this movie? I must say that it is one of the better, and she is shaping up to be a rather decent actress. I am very much looking forward to see her in action, when better material will be available.

This being said, this movie was terrible - and my score is given based on this: 1 star for not being the worst movie I've seen, 1 star for the performance of Tatyana Ali, and 1 star for not thinking that it only deserves 2 stars, there are worse movies for that.

Ja Rule should stick to rapping, not my favourite rapper to say the least, but some seem to like him - and if he is contained there, I would be delighted not to see him contaminate the acting scene.

Ving Rhames: Ah man, Marcellus Wallace what are you doing here - you used to be cool man. Just because Michael Caine is a fiercely brilliant actor, who has been in so many terrible flicks as well as good, you don't have to copy him Ving.

The rest of the semi big names in the cast: It's OK, there are bills to be paid, and we all have to do things we're not proud of time to time.

The movie itself. It so massively flawed, it's pretty difficult to know where to start. It's more like a bunch of scenes thrown in together, as were the director to say "we need to tell this, and we need to tell that". There is a story, unfortunately there is nothing surprising about or within it. To say the least, the plot changes in the story were overly obvious and it was therefore predictable what was going to happen all the time.

To sum up in one word: Reallynotgood