Wonderful character development!

One of my all time favorites.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

Just watched it last night. Had a real feel to it. It concentrated more on the day to day lives of these kids. It wasn't just about blowing guys away or drug use or dealing on the street corner. The movie was very low key but had its good up tempo parts also. Very realistic. Had no idea that Oliver Stone did this movie. A very underrated film. I also felt that more information on Rapaport's character's mother could have been shared. To go even deeper, more on why Nikki moved to Detroit would have been a plus. Those are minor suggestions though. Still a movie to see if you haven't. I have not seen "Save the Last Dance" so I can't compare. I did like it better than "Jungle Fever".

I love this movie!it's so real.I grew up in Detroit right down the street from where they film this movie and i was a kid when they film this movie there. I was so surprise to see that they film it in the high school i graduated from Frank Cody High School 18445 cathedral Detroit,MI.And the skating rink i grew up going to,Skate Land on the east side.That's crazy!What was film in this movie was really going on in Detroit then, it was bad.It was a lot of hate crimes like that,Detroit was well mixed, but every race pretty much stuck to them self.It wasn't a lot if interracial couple's in Detroit back then,so when there was one, it was a lot of hate crimes because of it.that was back then and even in some cases now it happens,but it's nowhere near as bad.Detroit is still a beautiful place to live,i love it!

A well-intentioned and rather interesting study into condemnation and the culture of the youth in the 1990s, there is however little that is done with the material. Too much time is spent on showing why the relationship is not approved, and the film spends too little time showing how and why the relationship has resulted. The film has some important things to say in terms of prejudices in society, but, it never manages to present them in a way so that they do not seem hackneyed. Either way, some fine acting - from both the leads in particular - solidifies the movie when the other elements do not suffice.

Initially I suspected that this might be another rather typical examination of racial strife in high school, almost of an ABC Afterschool special caliber. However, it was quite impressive in its portrayal not only of racial tensions but of the quality of friendship between two young men. Michael Rapaport typically flashes a somewhat limited range in his roles (he has most certainly been typecast by now) but his performance here has exceptional moments - particular in the last scene of the film where his emotion is tangible without being overdone.