“Breaking Point” is another New York crime thriller cliché of corruption, conflict and redemption. Tom Berenger is Steven Luisi a once respected criminal defense attorney who battles his inner hell of drug addiction and lingering memories of a family calamity. He defends an accused murderer who has ties to Luisi’s former drug dealer and baby killer played by Busta Rhymes. Sticky Fingaz of the rap group Onyx is Richard “Beanz” Allen a former jock turned gang member who joins forces with Luisi to bring justice and take Rhymes’s sociopathic character Al Bowen down. Beanz used to work for Bowen but broke away from his organization after he saw Bowen kill a mother and throw her child out of the window. His former grace as an athlete and luck enable him to catch the baby and arouse Bowen’s murderous ire. Armand Assante complicates matters even further as a mendacious prosecutor that taunts Luisi and adds to the already present cravings that lead him back to the pipe. The paint by the numbers script ensues and Luisi spends the rest of the film looking constipated while becoming vindicated after a rote battle between good and evil. Rhymes is convincing but he is not enough to carry the whole show. In spite of everything director Jeff Celentano’s “Breaking Point” is just one more B-movie for the insomniac crowd.

After starring in several movies and landing his own television series, Blade: the Series, Onyx rapper-turned-actor and now director, Kirk “Sticky Fingaz” Jones has made his first big picture foray as a director of the hottest hip-hop action drama to hit theaters, A Day In The Life. The Onyx MC has written, produced, and directed the movie which consists entirely of rap dialogue.

Sticky Fingaz and Fredro Starr will play major roles in the film which also casts a who’s who of Hollywood including: Mekhi Pfifer, Omar Epps, Bokeem Woodbine, Michael Rapaport, Faizon Love, Malinda Williams, Treach, Tyrin Turner, Drena De Niro (Robert De Niro’s daughter), Clarence Williams III, Ray J, Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr and more.

While it might be considered a “movie musical or a hip-hop opera,” Sticky Fingaz describes it as “Godfather Meets Romeo & Juliet.” When asked why he decided against straight dialogue, he explains, “I’m an artist and I create music and at the same time, I’m an actor so it made sense to try something innovative and merge the two together. We’ll be doing the same with Onyx’s Black Rock album, merging hip-hop and rock. It’s a way of tapping into both sides of myself.”

A Day In A Life will be released through Sticky’s production company, Major Independents in association with Lion Gates Films and coming to a big screen near you in early ’09.

View the trailer for A Day In The Life at Sticky Fingaz Website
www.stickyfingaz.com

So what’s next with Onyx as told by Fredo Starr
“We just released this Onyx documentary. It’s called 15 years of Videos, History, and Violence. It came out last month. The easiest way to get it is go to onyxdomain.com. The second album that’s out right now is called The Cold Case Files basically, it’s a collaboration of a lot of unreleased material that we just gathered up through the years.