On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist -- a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!
"The only color that counts is green."
Top Billed Cast
Larenz Tate
Anthony Curtis
Keith David
Kirby
Chris Tucker
Skip
Freddy Rodríguez
Jose
Rose Jackson
Juanita Benson
N'Bushe Wright
Delilah Benson
Clifton Powell
Cutty
Terrence Howard
Cowboy
Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews
J John ChardVerified TMDB Critic
2015-05-30
Brothers In Arms.
Albert and Allen Hughes direct, produce and co-write (with Michael Henry Brown) this tale about Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate), a South Bronx boy who goes off to fight in Vietnam, to then return after his tours of duty to find things just aren't the same anymore. The follow up to their incendiary debut, Menace II Society, the Hughes brothers deliver another in your face picture that is quite frankly on a perpetual downer. This is no bad thing, though, as long as you are not looking to be cheered up.
That's Uncle Sam for you! Mean Green.
The pic very much harks back to ...
C CinemaSerfVerified TMDB Critic
2023-04-03
The fairly charismatic Larenz Tate tries quite hard here as "Curtis", a lad with potential who falls in with petty criminal "Kirby" (Keith David) before enlisting in the US Marines to go and fight in Vietnam. After the war, he returns to his girlfriend "Juanita" (Rose Jackson) and his four year old daughter - but acclimatising to his new situation proves too difficult leading him to reunite with his wartime colleagues to carry out a daring armoured car heist. The story is pretty formulaic and the actors are rarely challenged by the lacklustre script - that does little to develop any characteri...
A Andre GonzalesVerified TMDB Critic
2023-05-13
Bank robbery movie. The planning they do is next to none. Awesome action but also pretty sad....
