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I feel like Tyrese is becoming complacent. Listening to him from one interview to the next, he comes across as someone who feels he's achieved a lot and should be revered for it. While he's undeniably an amazing singer, as an actor, I think he's just okay and got lucky with *Fast & Furious*, heavily relying on the strength of the supporting cast.

I've always been a fan of Scott Eastwood, son of the legendary Clint Eastwood, and you can never go wrong with the always brilliant Ray Liotta (RIP), who delivered a strong performance in this movie. His presence kept me engaged right until the end.

As for the script, it's clever, but the execution felt a bit second-rate. Then again, that's often what you get with a B movie. It's not great, but it's not terrible either.

This movie captures various themes and genres. At some point or another the movie is a heist movie set against the backdrop of the Rodney King riots of 1992. Along the way it's also a coming of age movie, an exploration of father-son relationships, and race relations.

Having seen the movie in a theater, to be fair, the movie has the cast, look, and feel of a better than average straight-to-streaming movie. The fact that it was given a "limited theatrical release" might just be giving the movie too much credit.

Tyrese Gibson, who plays a convincing father and "OG Merc" back in the day, finds himself thrust in the middle of a heist of valuable platinum bars, led by Ray Liotta (in his final film) at his villainous best.

What on first blush is an engaging heist movie rapidly evolves into a movie extremely derivative of "Die Hard" - nearly plot point by plot point. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing, but it does become quite formulaic.

Of course, the heist "crew", as always, includes "the muscle guy", the "smart" leader guy (Liotta), and the "clueless reluctant impressionable" guy (almost always related to the boss/leader) that you wonder why he was even brought along on the job in the first place.

A key plot point is that Gibson is bent on bringing his son to his workplace factory after-hours to "distance themselves" from the riot mayhem. What were they going to do? Spend the night there? Why not drive out of town altogether? I felt that was a fairly weak contrivance.

If you're a fan of Gibson and/or Liotta I think the movie would meet your expectations. Giving the movie a "10" (as others have done) is inexplicably generous.

While the heist twist in this film offers a unique perspective set against a historical backdrop, it's reminiscent of the 1992 movie South Central. The early suspenseful moments were promising, but the pacing slowed down towards the conclusion. Tyrese's performance was solid, as expected, and Ray's presence added a familiar intensity...I still miss him. Although the movie's overall quality is good, some scenes, particularly those highlighting the father-child bond, felt exaggerated. Despite this, it's still a worthwhile watch. The film's exploration of family dynamics and historical events provides a great experience.

1992 is worth watching if you like heist/action movies. It's also Ray Liotta's last movie ever as he sadly passed away since then. So as a homage to him it's also worth watching. Tyrese Gibson plays the righteous defender of morals and Scott Eastwood the son of Ray Liotta, a small time crook trying to score a life-changing big hit. Scott Eastwood is the son of the legendary Clint Eastwood, and there's absolutely no doubt about that as he's the spitting image of his father. Not yet the same charisma though but good enough to be believable. It's an entertaining heist movie, not flawless but in this genre you can't be too picky.

Either that or they're in need of seriously broadening their horizons.

10 stars? Calling it a "Perfect" film?

To rank this alongside The Godfather, Schindler's List, Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now or even The Lord Of The Rings is the equivalent of walking into Mordor and we know that "one does not simply walk into..." I digress.

Let's talk about this latest effort by Ariel Vroman to convince us that he is a serious film-maker.

After delivering a blistering array of career low films for Costner and Oldman (Criminal), Marisa Tomei (Danika) and the thrilless Toby Kebbel (Angel) we have finally been given the long delayed 1992.

Vromen has turned his attention to a historically and culturally significant moment in Angelino lives, April 29th 1992 and delivered what can only be described as screen flatulence in the form of a weak heist film that all but ignores the gravitas of its setting entirely.

A younger cast is meant to give us the impression that this is a vibrant, fresh take on a well trodden path, but Gibson and Eastwood do their best with a pedestrian and predictable script, whilst the late, great Ray Liotta is buried ignominiously with the lines "I did the best that I could son. But it wasn't enough".

And it isn't enough. Not enough thrills, invention, originality, style, character, humor, depth or even sense. Convoluted at times and blunt to a fault at others, this is yet another ham-fisted effort to waste our time, some poor investor's money and the goodwill of all the people roped into making accounts just to give it 10 stars, all in the vain hope that we might mix Vromen in with his Israeli counterparts; but Avi Nesher, Amos Gitai and Joseph Cedar he is not, unfortunately he's not even in the Menachem Golan and Yoram Globus league as whatever we may think, they at least found an audience.

And this the main issue with 1992. Who is it for? Fast and Furious polish without the camp over the top action, Goodfellas violence without the gritty impact and Hip Hop sentiment but with a vanilla milkshake to wash it down.

1992 tries to be all things to all people and comes up short every time. Too slight yet too garish, it somehow manages to fall in that most terrible place, the absolute middle.

You want a heist movie with a crazy backdrop take your pick from The Italian Job (1968) or Heat (1995). If you want something closer to 10 stars grab The Usual Suspects. But whatever you do, save this film for when you've seen all the rest.

Ray Liotta makes his cinematic curtain call in Ariel Vroeman's 1992, but it's a sadly superficial stock villain in a mediocre thriller that doesn't say or do much for the actor, who leaves a towering legacy behind him. In the violent mess of the Rodney King riots, single father Mercer (Tyrese Gibson) attempts to hide out with his teenage son at his workplace, a metalworks factory, during the chaos as it's in a much safer neighbourhood than his own. Of course it's an out of the frying pan into the cat and mouse situation as this just happens to be the night when vicious ex-con Lowell (Liotta) and his two sons (Scott Eastwood & Dylan Arnold) decide to rob the place, using the fact that most of the city's cops are distracted by the riots as cover. Cue a dimly lit parade of yelling, standoffs, shootouts, uninspired dialogue and thinly drawn characters facing off towards an eventual conclusion where lots of them get shot. It's almost comical how the script attempts tiny bits of social commentary regarding the riots and that infamous verdict before *immediately* getting distracted again by pedestrian thriller elements. Liotta is his typecasted self here: angry, volatile, scary and fired up, he doesn't get to do much else or display any depth beyond surface level menace, and it's unfortunate. The same can be said for the film overall, wherein a bit of atmospheric tension and feverish energy is mounted with the riot backdrop, before sinking disappointingly into the run of the mill conflict at the factory.

This movie is almost the exact same plot line as the movie he was in called Waist Deep "2006." The same usual, my son is in danger and I need to play Superman and save him and the day. It's so cheesy and corny I was deeply mislead by reading the plot story. I was under the impression that this was based on a true story from the 1992 LA riot pertaining to Rodney King. This movie infact has very little to do with that situation and everything to with Tyrese getting out of jail again and trying to be a good father. Can't hold or touch guns just like the movie "WAIST DEEP." This is literally a Waist of time.

I just got done watching 1992 (2024) and I liked it a lot. This is also another win for Lionsgate in 2024.

Positives for 1992 (2024): First off, I've gotta give props to Tyrese Gibson for his performance in this movie as it's one of the few less comedic performances in his career. I do enjoy Tyrese as Roman from the Fast and Furious Franchise, but it was nice to see him do something different from his usual shtick. I also really enjoyed both Ray Liotta (RIP) and Scott Eastwood in this movie. It was actually very interesting to see a movie that explores the Rodney King riots during that time. And finally, there are some decent action sequences in the movie.

Negatives for 1992 (2024): The movie doesn't really do a deep dive into the Rodney King riots and that's coming from someone who doesn't have a lot of knowledge about that. Also, the movie feels a little bit generic with its execution, but that's something to expect from a Lionsgate movie.

Overall, 1992 (2024) is a great little action thriller with some great performance that is held back by its execution at times, but I'm still recommending this movie for anyone who watches to see the last on screen performance by Ray Liotta.

Missed opportunity for a decent drama about redemption but has a heist in it so, well idk??

Tyrese is gangster just released from prison and working in a metal shop while raising his teenage son. At first, I thought maybe this could work. The first act set against the back drop of the riots in 92 LA. This would have been an interesting story if that's the way it went.

Now on another side of town there are some father/son criminals with family issues of their own. The heist aspect wasn't needed for what was beginning to be a good movie. Still, there has to be some kind of way to incorporate that in this film. Everything is set against the backdrop of the 1992 LA riots.

While I recommend it, I still feel disappointed because this could have been something special for Tyrese instead of another cliche heist movie.

This movie started so good and I really like Ray Liotta and Scott Eastwood, and for about the first hour it was an excellent movie. And then about the last half hour or so, it started to get a little silly and then as the movie went down it went from silly to absolutely ludicrous. I literally couldn't believe what I was watching, I felt more and more disappointed with what I was seeing on the screen, it went from a well thought out Heist movie and Thriller to just following the same old tired cliched Hollywood formula... Then as it reached the height of its conclusion in the third act, I almost couldn't finish watching it because I found myself saying "what a stupid movie this turned into"... And was I ever angry that I had just wasted an hour and a half on something that I thought was really good, but actually turned into a complete garbage movie because of the last half hour.

1992

I wasn't sure what to expect when I sat down to watch a movie set during the LA riots after the ridiculous non guilty verdict delivered to the cops who beat Rodney King on camera. 1992's main character is a man who had been out of prison for 6 months for an undisclosed crime, but related to gang violence. He has a 16 year old son that lives with him due to the deaths of the kid's mother and grandmother.

The twist here is that a group of criminals use the riots as a distraction for their heist of platinum from a plant. For 1992 it's a pretty advanced plot to break into the safe while only one security guard remains. As Ray Liotta's final film before his death, he plays the head of the heist, even though his 2 sons, and one of their war buddies did all the work.

I was glad to see that most of the first half of the movie deals with watching what the riots were doing in the neighborhood. Mercer, no stranger to violence, works to get his son to the same plant being robbed, for safety. The film does elicit the anger that the country felt to see such a miscarriage of justice.

The rest of the film is very Die Hard as Mercer fights against the thieves, as he watches in horror as his son is used as a hostage. It's fun to see Mercer take them out, and then it's fun to see the twist when one of the thieves realizes that the heist was going to far.

The one Black man in their crew is the first casualty when a forklift causes the amputation of his legs. The irony is not lost not he audience that during the riots, he is hurt by the remaining white crew, though unintentionally.

It's not a fantastic movie, though Tyrese Gibson (Mercer) does a fantastic job playing a scared father that has an ability, he is not proud of, to defend his family. He also is subject to the humiliation of suffering an incident with the police as he is driving to the plant, all while keeping his cool to avoid escalation. Watching a white family get sent through the barricade with no inspection just ticked me off.

I also wished the ending returned to the repercussions of the riots, but it did wrap up the heist plot. 30 years after the riots, I guess it was inevitable to use a real life event as an identifier of time and motive, but I almost felt it was going to be a more historical drama. But it's not, and I also remembered that the 2018 Black Panther movie did the same thing, at the beginning of the film.

'1992' was Ray Liotta's last film and it was fitting that he was playing an unhinged villain. He was one of the best in the industry to do it. He had a real edge about him that he could bring to a character and he absolutely expelled menace.

This film was a lot better than I expected. After a bit of a dusty start it found its way and became quite enjoyable. I was impressed with Tyrese Gibson in the lead role. He brought a lot to the film.

It is lacking a bit of polish and originality it would have to be said. And it could've done more with the 'Die Hard' type scenario it sets up towards the end. But all in all this was a pass mark by the barest of margins. 6/10.

Israeli director Ariel Vromen brings us a thriller with plenty of drama in a film that has some very intense moments, but they are not enough to give us a much more well-rounded film as we sometimes hoped for.

The script written by Sascha Penn manages to have moments of social drama that really manage to be a high point in the film and perhaps largely compensate for the weaker moments that the film experiences once it leans exclusively towards action that fails to reach a level that manages to give you the intensity of those more ghetto moments that feel precisely well done.

An efficient cast that gives us the posthumous appearance of the beloved Ray Liotta and a Scott Eastwood alongside Tyrese Gibson, who already know how to give us action on screen and continue to deliver in those moments when they provide it.

We find ourselves as spectators in a story where there are shootouts, a car chase, some heroism and some hard life lessons that invite us to have a good film that has its pleasant moments and those moments allow the film in general to come out acceptable and perhaps appreciated for its parts of social drama that really invite reflection.

Afterward we are left with a mixture of sensations where the film could have been much more complete than what we ended up receiving, which ends up deflating towards its final part, which leaves us with the bitter feeling that it had much more to give us.

I thought this film was going to be better then what it was. It was still acceptable but could have been better. The film takes place in the early 1990s L. A. during the time period where there were major tensions between citizens and the police due to the Rodney King riots. The film is about a man who is a ex con and is trying to get his life right and on track. He is also trying to raise his teenage son during all of this. The warehouse that he works at gets robbed and his son is there and gets caught up in the mix. I will say what I do appreciate about this film is the focus on what was happening in L. A. at the time.

1992 had real potential. With strong performances, particularly from Tyrese Gibson and the late Ray Liotta, and a powerful historical setting during the Rodney King riots, the film sets the stage for something impactful. Unfortunately, it falls short in execution.

The film suffers from an inconsistent tone, shallow engagement with serious social issues, an over-reliance on genre clichés, and a lack of emotional and narrative depth. Rather than focusing on a single, well-developed thread, it attempts to blend a heist thriller, a father-son redemption story, and a commentary on racial injustice all at once. The result is a muddled, unfocused narrative.

Structurally, the film follows a predictable formula: a man trying to do the right thing, a heist that spirals out of control, and a final moral confrontation. These elements might have worked if developed with nuance, but here they unfold in ways that feel familiar and uninspired.

Ultimately, 1992 becomes a frustrating blend of compelling ideas and underwhelming storytelling, a film with the right pieces, but the wrong assembly.

..chose to watch film based on title reference...in forcing to do so, kept falling asleep throughout...plot, which is erected on foundation of life changing events showing the world, & American society as a whole, what "we" deal with on general daily bases, is sad & pathetic- which makes this "film" hard to watch after to 1st 15 or so mins...Tyrese & Snoop being referenced as co-producers of this 🗑 in the end, along with the title reference, are failed attempts at trying to give it "fake" clout...this film shouldn't've been made- PERIOD!... IT'S TITLE REFERENCE & PRO. CREDITS ARE EMBARRASSING!

I loved this film. It has a tight thrilling John Singleton/Spike Lee vibe and it was an absolute treat to see Ray Liotta one more time. Liotta is at his maniacal best playing more criminal than father. The backdrop of the LA Riots brought back many memories. There are hundreds of stories from the streets in those days and this could be one of them. A heist film with racial undertones that grips the audience from the first frame. Just sit back and enjoy the action and ignore the bizarre pretentious critics that probably aren't old enough or didn't live in LA. Tyrese Gibson carries this film though and he's at the top of his game. He's evolving as an actor and I guarantee you directors are going to notice. See this movie.

I don't have much to say. This thing sucked. It was all over the place with random things going on. I know there was some race thing in here with the Rodney king verdict and LA riots, then the black guys are the good guys and the cops are bad and overly malicious as well as the monstrous old white man killing everyone with his redneck and Russian sidekick (not on the nose at all....). It's whatever. I don't care about agendas or whatever with modern politics. Like Tyrese said in here about the 60s, shown here in the 90s and again with recent events with the police. There's been a huge problem for a long time and no one is doing anything except making people aware by putting politics in entertainment. Again, I see the message, but it gets old because awareness isn't the issue, it's that our political system is broken in the states and changing it is nearly impossible with the legislation currently available. Police are brutal, and for the most part bully's who anre overly violent annd hopped up on roids and I've experienced it first hand on many accounts. I'm not disputing that fact, but if you're going to have this as a backdrop for a movie, then write the story around it as opposed to it just being another way to show what people are already aware of. As far as the actual movie. It just bored the hell out of me. Such a generic heist movie with very little insight to the actual heist. Just bare bones with a boring car chase at the end. Nothing new, nothing surprising, and honestly had me fighting sleep. Either write a piece that actually uses the Rodney king riots as a way to tell an interesting story with a good message against prejudice and the truth about police brutality, or write a good heist movie. Don't do a halfass job at both and mesh them together.

1992 was a frusturating film. The first 15-20 minutes start off pretty good but quickly succumbs to predictable and cheaply made heist film. It's a shame because Tyrese, Ray Liotta, and Scott Eastwood give solid performances here. I wish this film would have been more about the 1992 riots and just skipped over the heist aspect. The movie is nicely shot with the city of Los Angeles as the backdrop. The film adds in real life footage with newscasts and other footage from that time which are some of the more strong parts in this film. The movie then asks the viewer to disband their belief and enjoy the heist portion of the movie. They could have at least made it more believable. 1992 is a movie I would recommend skipping and gets 4 stars out of 10 from me.

Despite a short-lived flood of nostalgia seeing the legendary Ray Liotta in one of his final roles, this snoozer was just too awful to endure.

Even with a mediocre script, forced and flat dialogue, and a plot that's been recycled thousands of times, 1992 could have been a better film if at any time it actually endeavored to immerse the viewer in 1992. From wardrobe, to hairstyles, to film and lighting - 1992 plays on screen more like 2022. Had this film been shot on a 35mm Panaflex, with gritty cuts, beautiful organic grainy textures, and old school lighting and special effects- it may have been more deserving of its title.

What we got instead was a super clean, all digital, floating camera and a dreamy sanitized film texture that feels more like the Barbie movie than a gritty street heist film from the 90s. To top it off, the "street toughs" that fill each frame look like they were all cast wearing their sisters' skinny jeans purchased from Abercrombie last week instead of the baggy grungy street couture prominent in the 1990s.

To anyone that actually experienced the 90s and lived through the LA riots, this film is a completely out of touch mockery of that piece of our nation's culture and history.

Just came out of the movie theater ...This is a very well made action movie with an outstanding performance from Ray Liotta!!!!!!! RIP, what an actor! Thank you for the opportunity to see him one more time on the big screen!

Was interesting to see Tyrese as a lead actor, definitely his best role. Looks very organic. Father-son story with some twisted plot and unexpected ending.

Very enjoyable, don't make a mistake thinking it had anything to do with Rodney King or the social drama of LA riots - it's a heist action movie, very entertaining if you like the genre as I do!!!

Get popcorn and go watch it!

I really enjoyed this movie. Instead of writting a super long review, I just want to say that the acting was excellent and i had been waiting for around a month for another good crime/gangster flick to come out. Tyrese was especially good and as he gets a bit older his acting chops are getting better and better. Also was pretty cool to see Ray Liotta in his last flick. He will be missed for his true grit

Scott Eastwood is cool too. He looks and acts so much like his old man ,its like i get to spend the rest of my life still getting Eastwood movies as at 46 i have watched and enjoyed his dads flicks.

I hope that Death-Row Records and Snoop Dog make more movies even if the are straight to streaming. Everyone has a theater at home now days anyways. So all in all keep up Brothers and Sister Movie lovers.