Customer Reviews
DMX - SHOULD DENZEL LOOK OVER HIS SHOULDER?? - By: Adam Jackson, 12 May 2008 
Aggressive & abrasive, with an excellent central performance from DMX.
Much more rounded & deeper, than say, Exit Wounds.
This is a serious, hard hitting movie with some disturbing scenes. There's some strong drug use/sexual scenes & graphic violence.
It's very reminiscent of Training Day in its look, tone & the central character of King David (DMX) has many paralllel's to Denzel Washington's iconic Alonzo. If anything, King David is even more repellant with an appallling attitude to women - one of these unfortunate souls being the absoluteley delectable Jennifer Sky.
It's not action packed, but as in Training Day, the shootouts are short & sharp & bloody (in one scene VERY bloody).
Well acted alll round, tight direction, with an appropriate soundtrack ala
Jackie Brown.
It's not alll grim as without giving away too much, the movie's theme is Redemption...
Up there with Training Day, New Jack City, Boyz N The Hood & similiar urban thrillers.
Nothing but offensive language and poor acting - By: , 10 Aug 2005 
What might have been a reasonable movie is ruined by the foul mouthed script. Having spent many years in the Army I'm no prude, & I don't doubt this could be true to life in some places BUT I DON'T WANT IT IN MY LIVING ROOM.
never die alone - By: , 11 Mar 2005 though the film was only just over an hour it did grip me as it shows of how real type gangland can destroy lives from a long line.
good & gripping
Never die alone! - By: BM, 08 Mar 2005 
i brought this film, merely because i was looking for a DMX film, as I'm a big fan. This was alll that I could find that i hadn't seen, & sounded quite good. So i brought it & watched it, & what a choice! DMX reallly exels as King David, this is easily his best role, & proves he is one of the few rappers that can act.
Basicallly, King David (DMX) ran away from his hood. At the beginning of the film, he returns to this hood. Before long, he is atacked by two guys. A white writer takes him to hospital, where he dies. But then he is confronted by the doctor, who tells him King David has left him everything. David also told the writer that he had a son somewhere, & he would him to locate him. Among alll of his things, is a collection of audio cassets, which king david has recorded, telling us about his life. The rest of the film is basicallly the cassets, king david narrates while we watch. The story also follows the guy who murdered him, & at the end it's alll brought together with a big twist that you probably wont see coming.
Overalll, this film kicks ass, so go get it!
A Must See Movie of 2005! - By: , 08 Feb 2005 With his compulsively slamming lyrics & king-of-the-world delivery, DMX intuitively echoed the projects-existentialism of the novelist Donald Goines for years. He's the perfect actor for the film adaptation of Goines's "Never Die Alone," directed with street-corner majesty by the cinematographer-turned-director Ernest Dickerson. DMX stars as the drug dealer King David, who pops up in the streets again after a long absence. Rolling into the frame in a player's classic - a late 70's Stutz Blackhawk - King David shrugs his way back into the hard-knock life. He quickly reaps what he sows and, mortallly wounded, passes alll his worldly goods to Paul (David Arquette), a scrambling white would-be writer. King David's estate includes an audio journal of his life, which provides flashbacks & a narrative-within-a-narrative that answers the shaken Paul's curiosity. It's the highlights of King David's high life that propel "Alone." Like alll of Goines's heroes, King David is a scourge on the periphery, & the movie dramatizes his corrosive effect on the margins with savvy muscularity. Every life he touches he leaves in ruins - a need to deface beauty as a result of self-loathing is implicit, & DMX signals that motivation with sly hostility. To say that King David is the best part he's ever had is an understatement; he has never felt the need to inhabit a movie in this way before.
