Movies starring Mario Van Peebles

Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

130 mins Action , Comedy, Drama

Movie review "Heartbreak Ridge" � Clint Eastwood stars as Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway, the toughest and nastiest drill instructor as Cherry Point who takes no shit from no one....

Jaws: The Revenge (1987)

89 mins Adventure , Thriller

When it comes to the "Jaws" movies I honestly thought that "Jaws 3" was bad but "Jaws: the Revenge" surpasses it in the ranks of being terrible. Although I have to say that thankfully the use of 3D which was major issue in "J...

New Jack City (1991)

97 mins Crime, Drama, Thriller

September 2011 a furore starts on the net when Universal announces they plan to remake/re-imagine the iconic "Scarface". Jump back 20 years and you have "New Jack City" a movie which not only follows a storyline similar to "S...

In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992)

96 mins Action , Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

Movie Review - In the Line of Duty: Street War (1992) (aka: Urban Crossfire) when a cop is killed and the detectives don't seem to be doing anything, his friend and fellow cop is prepared to take matters in to his own hands t...

Gunmen (1993)

94 mins Action , Comedy, Crime

Movie Review - Gunmen (1993) Christopher Lambert stars as Dani, a criminal busted out of jail by DEA agent Cole Parker (Mario Van Peebles) who have to work together to find 400 million hidden by Dani's brother whilst dealing ...

Gang in Blue (1996)

97 mins Action , Crime, Drama, TV Movie

So "Gang in Blue" is another one of those movies which came out during the 90s which attempted to lift the lid on extremist sections of the American police force who would unjustly and brutally target racial minorities. Now I...

Riot (1997)

120 mins Drama, TV Movie

Within 15 minutes of "Riot" started I already knew how I was going to review what was a difficult movie to review and that was to just describe the opening story called "Gold Mountain". It is about the Lee family and in parti...

Ali (2001)

156 mins Biography, Drama, Sport

"Ali" is the biopic based on the life of legendary heavy weight boxer Muhammad Ali from the period 1964, where he clashed with the infamous Sonny Liston, through a decade to 1974 and the now famous 'Rumble in the Jungle' figh...

Crown Heights (2004)

93 mins Drama, TV Movie

Movies like "Crown Heights" make my life as a movie reviewer difficult not just because it is based on real events but its intentions are good yet as a movie it doesn't quite work. It means that whilst I enjoyed the movie bec...

Hard Luck (2006)

101 mins Crime, Drama, Thriller

"Hard Luck" is a movie with aspirations, it is aiming high to be mentioned in the same breath as the likes of "Pulp Fiction" but the only time "Hard Luck" and "Pulp Fiction" would be mentioned together is in conjunction with ...

Mantervention (2014)

98 mins Comedy

Here is the problem with teen sex comedies these days, all the jokes have been done before and unless they try to go extremely gross out they end up coming across as tame. That is in truth the problem has with "Mantervention"...

* This is purely a list of reviews on The Movie Scene featuring the name Mario Van Peebles as one of the principle cast members.