Ill Gotten Gains

1997

Action / Drama / History

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 104 104

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Plot summary

WEST AFRICA 1869 - Slave trade is illegal. There is a revolt on a slave ship - twenty four men fight for their lives. Out-gunned, the revolt fails but a second uprising is planned.

Director

Joel B. Marsden Photo
Joel B. Marsden

Top cast

Brye Cooper Photo
Brye Cooper as Navy Lad
Djimon Hounsou Photo
Djimon Hounsou as Fyah
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo Photo
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo as Cooper
Claudia Robinson Photo
Claudia Robinson as Femi
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978.52 MB
1280*942
English 2.0
R
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24 fps
1 hr 46 min
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1.77 GB
1456*1072
English 2.0
R
us  
24 fps
1 hr 46 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 7 / 10

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[font=Arial Black][img]http://images.dvdempire.com/gen/movies/8215h.jpg[/img][/font] [font=Arial Black]Plot: In 1869, five years after the abolition of slavery, 24 men find themselves to be captives in the hold of the slave ship "Argon Miss" anchored off of the New Guinea coast of West Africa. The incarcerated men, driven by a spiritual force, attempt to gain their freedom through a bloody uprising. This film shares both a star (Hounsou) and similar subject matter to Spielberg's AMISTAD, but the similarity ends there. This film premiered before AMISTAD began shooting, and is far grittier.[/font] [font=Arial Black][/font] [font=Arial Black]Review: Ill-Gotten Gains was a movie dat really kept my attention and I liked it even if it wasn't a big production movie like "Amistad". I thought the movie was real and was intriguing. The movie is in Black & White symbolizing a Black and white issue, giving the movie an eerie and raw feel. I loved dat they used modern street language of today then the language or accents spoken in those times. Djimon Hounsou stars in this movie, who was also in the movie "Amistad" was really good, he had good presents and play his character very well. Ill-Gotten Gains was written 2 years before Spielberg's "Amistad" and the "Amistad" movie just started production rite after "Ill-Gotten Gains" premiere at the Pan-African film festival. The Amistad movie even used the same boat used in "Ill-Gotten Gains". But I'm not gonna compared the two movies I haven't even seen "Amistad" yet but it should be good especially if it's a Spielberg movie, I gotta check it out. I highly doubt dat "Ill-Gotten Gains" is better then "Amistad" but it may be a little more real. You may hate it or love it but it's still something u gotta see. The special features r really good to, there's a documentary and an Interview wit the director.[/font]
Reviewed by speck2001

Possibly the biggest waste of production money ever !!

I was an extra in this film (thankfully uncredited)- and at the time it seemed like a decent indie period film, but that was just the day I was working. A few years later, when this project actually surfaced in theaters, I took my wife to see it. She begged me to walk out with her, but the film student perseverence in me coerced me to stay and her as well. She will never let me forget that aweful night. Every time we see a bad Hollywood film, she always mentions that nothing could be worse than Ill Gotten Gains. It really astonishes me how investors will sink a few million into something as totally crappy as this. For an example, check out the "ships passing in the fog" scene. I'm sure many of us could have shot the same thing in our own bathtubs with old models we built as kids.
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