Never Die Alone Movie Review 2004

King David (DMX) is a drug dealer and a vicious dude to boot, and the opening scene shows him paying the price for his deeds as he is fatally stabbed. This is where Paul (Arquette), a struggling writer desperate for a story to tell, comes in. When King David passes on he gives Paul all of his possessions, including a stack of audiotapes he'd made detailing the events of his wretched life (which provide the means for the at-times tedious narrative), but Paul doesn't realize how dangerous a predicament this really is. Director Dickerson presents powerful images and purposefully avoids garnering sympathy for King David. DMX is engrossing as the suave seducer/violent hoodlum. Based on the 1974 novel by ex-convict Donald Goines.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 88 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Crime Drama, Drug Use & Abuse, Harlem, L.A., Interracial Affairs

Screenplay

James Gibson

Cast

DMX, Michael Ealy, Antwon Tanner, David Arquette, Clifton Powell, Tommy (Tiny) Lister, Aisha Tyler, Michele Shay, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Damion Poitier, Jennifer Sky, Drew Sidora

Cinematography

Matthew Libatique

Director

Ernest R. Dickerson

Music

DMX, George Duke

Other

Stephen Lovejoy, Marie France, Christiaan Wagener