Juice vs Lock Up
Juice has the higher audience score (7.2/10 against 6.8/10 for Lock Up). Juice is the shorter watch at 1h 36m compared with 1h 55m. Lock Up is the older of the two (1989 against 1992). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Juice
Lock Up| Juice | Lock Up | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 1992 | 1989 |
| Length | 1h 36m | 1h 55m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Ernest R. Dickerson | John Flynn |
| Main cast | Omar Epps, Samuel L. Jackson, Donald Faison, Queen Latifah, Michael Badalucco | Sylvester Stallone, Donald Sutherland, Tom Sizemore, John Amos, Frank McRae |
Synopsis
Juice
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ and happens to have a gig the night of the robbery. Unfortunately for him, Bishop isn't willing to take no for answer in a game where everything's for keeps.
Lock Up
Frank Leone is nearing the end of his prison term for a relatively minor crime. Just before he is paroled, however, Warden Drumgoole takes charge. Drumgoole was assigned to a hell-hole prison after his administration was publicly humiliated by Leone, and has now arrived on the scene to ensure that Leone never sees the light of day.