Belly

The medium overwhelms the message, but music video director Hype Williams' feature debut still has far more on its mind than it first lets on. Tommy (Earl Simmons, aka DMX) and Sincere (Nasir Jones, aka Nas), friends since childhood, are at a crossroads. Tommy's ambitions run to bigger and more profitable variations on what they've been doing since they were teens: robbing, hustling, drugging and sexing around. Sin and his wife Tionne (Tionne Watkins) have a new baby, and he's starting to get into the Reverend Saviour (Minister Benjamin F. Muhammed) and his message of self-improvement and spiritual enlightenment through education. That doesn't stop Sin from joining...