Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge (Ice Cube), a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.
Has its moments, including an eye-catching ending, but a lot of it comes across as really heavy and kind of forced. I have never been to a college in the '90s in America so I'm not the best person to say this, but it seems ridiculously over the top. Michael Rapaport's character seems to be a smart kid who so quickly gets turned into a white supremacist ready to off someone which is another problem I had with it. There are a number of parts of the plot that seem to begin but go nowhere as well. Nothing really seems to have come from the sports subplot. What happened to the students who couldn't pay their fees at the beginning of the film? This is never shown to be resolved. And what happened with Kristy Swanson's whole sexual experimenting? She enjoyed both, but then what? Looking at IMDb, apparently, much of this was cut... 2.5-2/5
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