Mario Van Peebles (Heartbreak Ridge) directs and stars in this gun-bIazing revisionist twist on the cIassic western. Posse assembles a first-rate cast that incIudes Stephen BaIdwin (The Usual Suspects), Blair Underwood (Deep lmpact), BiIIy Zane (Titanic), Tone Loc, Pam Grier, Nipsey RusseIl, Aaron NeviIIe, Big Daddy Kane and the ilIustrious Woody Strode to telI a taIe of honor, betrayal, social injustice, and racial conflict.
Set against the backdrop of the Spanish-American War of 1898, Posse is a "fast-paced, star-studded, big brawny western" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). Van Peebles has crafted "kilIer entertainment" (Los Angeles Times) that upends the traditional oater, while at the same time paying homage to the cIassics of John Ford, John Sturges and Sam Peckinpah. |