Seductress gun moll Imabelle (Robin Givens) escapes a gunfight with white police in Mississippi and steals a trunk full of gold ending up in Harlem. Religiously devoted undertaker Jackson (Forest Whitaker) is a pushover and he completely falls under her spell. His brother Goldy (Gregory Hines) is a gangster. Easy Money (Danny Glover) is a more ruthless mobster. Scary men from the south have arrived looking for the gold.

Jackson needs an early scene with Goldy to set up their relationship. Robin Givens uses all her sex appeal. Whitaker is always good. In this one, he's forced to bend a bit too far. He can be this pushover but he can't be clueless. At times, he drifts into cluelessness. The writing is not always the best. Everybody is acting over the top in gangster style. It adds an interesting but flawed movie.

A Rage in Harlem (1991) is a movie I watched for the first time in a long time on Amazon Prime. The storyline involves the woman of a drug lord who steals a briefcase of money and needs to find a quick and cheap place to live. She stashes away with a virgin, religious mamas boy who would appear to have no hope with her. Her misfortunes may lead to his good fortunes. This movie is directed by Bill Duke (Hoodlum) and stars Robin Givens (Boomerang),Forest Whitaker (Fast Times at Ridgemont High),Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon) and Zakes Mokae (The Serpent and the Rainbow). The storyline for this picture is fairly straightforward but entertaining. Badja Djola (The Last Boy Scout) played a solid villain and Givens delivered a sly and unpredictable character well. Whitaker was great as the clumsy lover boy too. The cast and execution was perfect. The storyline wasn't as compelling to me as Duke's Hoodlum but it is still entertaining and worth a viewing. I'd score this a 6.5/10.

What do you get when you mix some Mississippi bumpkins, a gold heist, and some Harlemites? A joke of a movie.

The movie was going in a decent direction before it fell off the rails--and this was in spite of the fact that I don't even like the sight of Robin Givens' face or the fact that Jackson (Forest Whitaker) was the most gullible man on planet Earth. Yes, with those two major drawbacks I still thought the movie was going somewhere.

Then, somewhere midway through the movie, somewhere in Harlem the movie became a confluence of idiocy. Every character did one hair-brained thing after another and the least stupid of them would be the victor--that or the luckiest of them.

In the end the movie was one big joke with only a few parts actually eliciting a laugh.