![]() A wrong turn lands them directly in the path of Fallon, a vicious, wise-cracking drug lord. While racing to a boxing match, Frank, Mike, John and Rey get more than they bargained for. Now, the killer’s leader (Denis Leary) cannot let them live, and the four must find their way to safety while being hunted through Chicago’s meanest streets. Chasing ensues), the album associated with it has become the singular defining moment in rap-metal history. Judgment Night movie reviews & Metacritic score: Four friends on their way to a boxing match get caught in heavy traffic, so they take a shortcut in order to get there faster, unfortunately it leads to them wi. Judgment Night 1993 Directed by Stephen Hopkins Synopsis Don’t move. When four young men (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Stephen Dorff, Jeremy Piven) take a wrong turn on their way to a boxing match in a state-of-the-art RV, they witness a murder. While the movie itself might have fallen into relative obscurity (Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., and a couple of other middle aged suburban dads get stranded on the south side of Chicago and witness a crime committed by Dennis Leary and Everlast’s street gang. Here in the flickering darkness of the temple, a questioner stood silent before the Ancients, awaiting an answer he knew he could not trust. In between early rap-rock flirtations and nü-metal’s total synthesis of the sound came the first full scale experiment in genre merging, the soundtrack for the 1993 film Judgment Night. Hell, look no further than the lineup for the 1992 Lollapalooza tour (featuring Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, and Cypress Hill) for a snapshot of the time. The funk metal of Fishbone and Faith No More dribbled into the mainstream. ![]() Public Enemy and Anthrax had a degree of success with “Bring The Noise.” Rapper Ice-T’s band Body Count courted well publicized public condemnation with “Cop Killer.” Beastie Boys had long since shifted their sound from hardcore to hip-hop. ![]() After all, Run DMC were instrumental in reinvigorating Aerosmith’s career with their “Walk This Way” collaboration. The writing had been on the wall for a few years. It was a time where cynical marketing executives realized that there was a way to simultaneously capitalize on the burgeoning outsider rock and hip-hop movements. It was a time where Danzig and Cypress Hill were both enjoying mainstream commercial airplay on alternative radio.
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