Dead Presidents follows the Hughes brothers' first movie 'Menace II Society'. It is not a sequel to 'Menace', but it is not all that far from it. I thought 'Menace' was much better, but Dead Presidents was a good movie nonetheless. Dead Presidents is about a boy growing up in the sixties in a black slum where he learns street life and works for a criminal who runs billiards. The movie then jumps to him and his friends being sent to Vietnam. I personally had a problem with this part of the movie. It was kind of random and didn't fit in with the rest of the movie. I think the Hughes Brothers just wanted to see if they could direct war footage. The movie would have been better if they were sent to Vietnam, but it didn't show it. Eventually they come back and the boy is ready to start working for his former boss again. This is the part of the movie that everybody sees it for. The two come up with a team of other criminals and plan a heist that will make them rich. I won't tell you where it goes from there, you will just have to see it on your own. To sum up the movie is, as Luis once said, "really three movies in one": the boy grows in the black community, fighting in vietnam, and then the heist. Even with this in mind, the movie is still pretty good, though not nearly as good as 'Menace'.
4 stars
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