Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
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Carmen:Hip Hopera. The movie is off the hook. It stars some of the hottest artist in the music biz. To Jermaine Dupri all the way to the Beautiful Beyonce Knowles. I mean the movie is great for African Americans. It showed how us as Black people can really show our talent. What i mean is that we've taking an opera play or show and made it into a Hip Hopera. All i can say is that it came out Amazing from the beginning to the end, but i was disappointed when Carmen (Beyonce) died in the movie, but its all cool though. Still the movie was great, the rhymes were of the chain, and everybody played their role right. In my opinion Carmen deserves at least a 9 in my perspective. And i would definitely buy the movie.
In my opinion, this movie was done quite well. It's story goes along pretty well with it's original opera version by Georges Bizet. But Lil Bow Wow was a bad idea, he was just there for product placement in my opinion, and the song sang with him when they are in prison doesn't occur in the real opera (Don Jose sings by himself), but the song's meaning is similar. The only thing that vexed me is the fact that the ending is different that the "Real" ending in the opera. I won't give any spoilers but both are done well and Da Brat narrating was a good idea. The lead parts (Beyonce and Mekhi) are done exceptionally well with Beyonce playing Carmen beautifully, capturing especially the sexuality and Mekhi capturing the emotion and love.
Hi,I watched this movie and thought it was so romantic but it still wasn't a chick flick.Beyonce played her part and over of course her singing was awesome,I could just see all this conflict happening in real life.Mekkhi did a great job too ! Because we understand how a guy could fall for THAT GIRL !
This movie was a very good start for MOS DEF for beyonce she should stick to singing. As you watch the movie mos def (Frank Miller)took the whole movie to a different level, while beyonce's acting killed to whole movie, through out the movie it seems she is reading the script word by word. If you like freestyle rap and a TV-movie plot this a very good movie but I WARN YOU beyonce's acting might force you to change the channel.