Richard Price's long, meandering story of inner-city life with drugs was first rate: one close-up scene led into another, nailing your attention to the moment so you only saw what was coming when Price wanted you to. The result: great suspense, then completely believable inevitability that kept you hoping for miracles you knew were not allowed. This movie is like video Cliff's Notes for the book: every major scene is there, missing only the dramatic tension. Instead of drug deals in staccato cuts as in The Wire, we get glossed-over abridgments, so Lee can let the camera linger on the fraught-with-meaning (never mind what meaning) moments the protagonist spends playing with his model trains. When I saw "Your rental expires in 4 hours," I thought, "Great! Starting at eight o'clock, I won't be tempted to watch the second half." And I didn't.

This is actually a wonderful movie spike is a great story teller

Clockers illustrates that a great cast -- including Harvey Keitel, Keith David, Delroy Lindo and John Turturro -- does not guarantee a great movie. This may be the worst movie I've seen ... well, ever.

This film was visually raw and stayed true to the era when it was filmed. Classic Spike Lee Joint..

Closed minds and limited intellects often bore quickly. This movie was very moving. Life is all about choices and how they alter the lives of the unfortunate that get caught up in the ripple effect when bad choices are made. It's a plot/story the movie told well. This was Spike Lee when he was still raw. My hat off again to Mr. Blanchard also!