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This movie was an excuse for Jay-z to claim he had something to do with the production of a a movie. This was one of the two movies I have ever seen that I couldn't finish it was too horrible. After seeing it, I asked someone to explain it to me, so here is what I gather. This Beans character is very down on his luck man, and would like to change this. He then starts out a gang called "ABM" which was later explained to me to mean "All aBout Money" why it wouldn't be AAM is just just depressing. Then he beats people up, and seems to be quite the hate filled individual. Then Jay Z shows up in a car for some reason then the movie was over.

ALL MY REVIEWS CONTAIN SPOILERS. EVERY ONE OF THEM. The movie's opening scene takes place in a strip joint, chock-full of gratuitous nudity; if there even IS such a thing-- it's just a phrase I always hear wimp critics use. I have no idea how that's a bad thing. And any movie with people getting offed repeatedly is a friend of mine. State Property is that movie. State Property, the straight to video movie, stars rapper Beanie Sigel, who is one of Hollywood's ugliest-- second only to Kevin Bacon. Beanie will ruin your day. Period. If he doesn't like you, or you don't do what he says, you're dead. Period. Broad daylight, he doesn't care. 900 witnesses, he doesn't care. You'll be out in the street chillin' somewhere and Beanie and his gang will come by, and blow your whole chest cavity out and ruin your whole day. Period. This whole movie is one scene. One scene done dozens of times: Beanie asks someone to join his team. They say no. Beanie comes back and wets their shirts up with blood. Ruins all your plans, I tell you. This is one of those "Let's get all our friends together and make a movie" kinda movies. Let's fill it with everything that we don't have in reality (money, respect, women) and live out all our fantasies on TV. And since I, Rocky, share these exact fantasies, I have no problem with this movie. Talk about one perfect movie. Every man in the movie who isn't Beanie Sigel gets blown away. Every woman in the film has amazon breasts and the ass of life. The movie is incoherent in terms of plot, and that's just fine with me. My attention span rivals that of a rabid goldfish, and the less plot you put in a movie, the more time you allow for people getting blown away. Lack of plot is 100% redeemed when you got people getting killed by the masses in between scenes of pointless nudity (oxymoron, I know.) For all of you that say State Property has bad acting and a bad script, I say to all of you, WHO CARES!! If you want a great script, look for Chopping Mall. If you want great acting, rent Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-A-Rama. I have seen State Property 3 times now and I am firing up the ol' DVD player for another serving as I come to the conclusion of this review. It's a gun toting revenge movie, what do you expect? I'd root for a sequel, but the whole cast is dead. Maybe the heavens will bless us with a prequel. * * * * * out of 5.

I got the chance to see this recently on video and when I rented this from a nearby Blockbuster(which doesn't rent or sell any type of movies that are offensive to adults as well as children which was a shock to me that they had this!)the guy behind the counter asked me who was I rented this for...for myself you may asked or my aunt. He looked at me as if I was crazy and said,"You renting this movie for your aunt?" "Your aunt doesn't want to see this since this may be offensive to her". So,I took a gamble and brought it home to see it along with several of my cousins and my aunt. To the guy who sold this to me since it was rented for viewing and to be returned the next day,he was totally right. My aunt raised holy hell about it too. She told me to take it straight back to the store. And my cousins didn't like it either. I saw the first twenty minutes of this and I had enough of the bull----. Let me start by saying that this was total garbage upfront and personal. The acting is terrible. The script is terrible. The ONLY thing that holds this movie together is the cimematopgraphy. That's it. The irony is that some of the actors are decent young individuals who were in fact testing out their own ecentric egos while on the other hand someone whoever thought of casting rapper Beanie Siegel in the title role must be totally miscasted. Siegel(who thinks he is Ice Cube,aka in short an Ice Cube wannabe)was completely wasted as a "Nino-Brown-esk character" who goes from being dirt poor to living large with his boys...all in a half-hour of the movie! As for Jay-Z he is only in this for the first ten minutes as an untouchable character(or Godfather),and as for some of the sex scenes I won't go there(including one scene with rapper Amil whom I heard from sources that Jay-Z dropped her from Rocafella after this). See it for yourself. Believe me,the soundtrack to this is WAY BETTER than the movie! If you have children and pre-teens,DON'T LET THEM SEE THIS FILM! This is strictly adult since it almost got by an R rating instead of NC-17 or X.

I was wondering what ever happened to the ol' Blaxploitation movies and this one popped out of nowhere! I really enjoyed this film. It captured the gangsta rap vibe perfectly. It flowed in a fast pace and I never got bored. Beans and Babyboy made a great team and were funny together. Damon Dash was funny too. Jay-Z was in it just enough to not to steal the shine from Beanie Sigel. I hope Abdul the director does another Roc-a-fella movie soon! I have been a big fan since the "Streets Is Watching" mini movie came out a few years back!

This was actually one of the worst films I have seen to date. It was surprising because believe it or not, i usually like these low-budget hip hop films, they usually seem a bit realistic to me. However this was one WAS NOT! It was fake, wow so fake. The R.O.C. doesn't impress me with this film. The acting is not that great, the lead was horrible although I liked Omillio Sparks, Memphis Bleek and Damon Dash in their roles. I thought this film bit off so many films it was sort of pitiful. The script wasn't that great either, weak dialogues. I just think this is the perfect example for the idea that these people should stick to making music not movies. 4/10

I love Beanie Sigel. He is the most underrated rapper out of Rocafella Records but this movie stunk like week-old roadkill. Beanie plays a bully who runs around with a group of thugs that beat up on people in their hometown and issue them a warning that goes "get down or lay down"! The main flaw of the movie is that nobody can act. Beanie is so laughable in his role that sometimes I crack up when he comes on screen. He is not the only one who should stick to rapping. Memphis Bleek's character was a riot for all the wrong reasons(when he shot a Beanie's car for honking the horn at him, I laughed so hard that I peed a little. Damon Dash and Jay-z are stiff as mannequins in this movie also. You cant tell that the director knew that this film was rank and told them to keep going anyway. The funniest part is when Beanie's lawyers tell him to cop a plea for a guy he just shot. Lol! His reaction was a hoot! In short this is a bad movie simple and plain. If you want to watch it to see how bad it is then fine. But you were warned.

The humor was crude and funny. The main problem was the way the movie was cut and directed. Scenes started to early, so there was a lot of extra stuff were the actors were basically standing around waiting for the scene to start. There were also inconsistence or lapses in Continuity. Like the scene were a guy shots through an open window and blood spatters the window the bullet came through. Additionally, these or not Juilliard trained actors. They're rappers stretching their chops. Even with the director's problem, this was a decent movie. Jay Z's character was slightly retarded in his first scene. But he seemed to snap out of it.

This movie should've been called 'Urban Stereotypes For Dummies' as it uses every cliché imaginable. The story is a Scarface-wannabe, street thugs rising up in the drug world. While Scarface may have glorified this type of life, this movie just dragged out a plot that it couldn't successfully deliver. The acting is non-existent. I've seen better cold readings than this. And the directing just plain stunk. Too many close ups. The director should consider using medium and long shots on occasion. I'm going to change my cable provider if movies like this are the best they can offer.