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Movie Reviews of Colors
Movie Review: MOVIES EXCELLENT
Summary: 5 Stars
SEEN THIS MOVIE A LONG TIME AGO WHEN I HAD VHS NOW IM SWITCHING EVERYTHING TO DVD NOW SO I CAN ELIMINATE ALL THE VIDEO TAPES AND GIVE THEM TO SOME POOR SCHMUCK.Movie Review: The Most Realistic Police Movie I've Ever Seen...
Summary: 5 Stars
I like this film because it is all 100% accurate as far as what it was like to work CRASH.Movie Review: great action movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a movie that tells about life and the real things that happens in life.Movie Review: Colors
Summary: 4 Stars
Dennis Hopper's "Colors," is about two cops, a veteran and a rookie who are assigned to LA's C.R.A.S.H (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums) program. Their personalities excessively clash, yet they are forced to come together to arrest gang members.
The younger cop, Danny McGavin, is a violent, tough, "bad cop," while Bob Hodges, the veteran, is a calm, experienced, "good cop." They often have disagreements about their styles, whether to force actions, or ask of them.
The story also follows the two biggest gangs in East LA; the Blood and the Crips. There is constant feuding between the two groups, including common gun fights involving both gangs. The movie shows how even children are drawn into gang activity, and are part of such violence.
The movie continues with Danny, Bob, and other members of C.R.A.S.H. arresting gang members. Normally there isn't any shooting involved with the arrest but in the last scene Bob Hodges is shot and killed.
The movie ends in a repetitive fashion when Danny gets a new partner and shows he has learned a lot from Bob. He begins to teach his new partner a bit of what Bob taught him, to relax and not be very rash, and to realize you just have to let things go.
"Colors" shows Los Angeles in the view of a cop, a dangerous city, although the police always prevail. It also shows the horrors of many killings without much reason. Many killings are a result of drive by shootings during special occasions.
"Colors" brings out the violent, aggressive side of California. The side which is feared as well as shamed, the side which brings down California.
I liked the movie because it included many different issues. The main issue was the gang violence, although secondary issues such as the differences between Bob Hodges and Danny McGavin made the movie interesting.
One issue that is only brought up once is community involvement. In the movie there is a scene in which there is a debate between the people and the police. They are both opposed to gang violence, although the people aren't willing to help very much. While people like to believe there is a lot of support for programs such as C.R.A.S.H. there often is very little.
I would suggest "Colors" to a variety of people, those who are interested in the underground life in California, as well as those who are interested in our police force. This movie draws in multiple aspects of everyday life, all of which most of us have never come across.
Movie Review: Stylish But It Could Use More Substance
Summary: 4 Stars
Hailed by critics as one of the more important films of the 80s, "Colors" nonetheless is a fairly straightforward tragedy--there's no other direction for the story to take. Robert Duvall plays a veteran police officer working L.A.'s mean streets; hothead Sean Penn joins his CRASH anti-gang unit, predictably testing the elder partner's patience and reserve as he just tries to keep the peace and make it through that final year to retirement. Both actors bring more depth to their cliched roles than might be expected, playing off each other surprisingly well, even in moments where they are given little more to do than react. But "Colors" offers no real answers to anything. The cops are presented mostly as well-armed zookeepers, while the gang members, blessed with youth and health but not much brains, run violently about, making the story mostly a series of aimless confrontations. Art imitating life? Maybe. But careful audiences might feel they've been bamboozled, despite director Dennis Hopper's rather lofty take on it. With some scenes that are genuinely tragic and gripping--the shooting of an unarmed suspect and the movie's final scene, to name two--and a romantic subplot that deserved more time--Maria Conchita Alonso seems to just get warmed up as a bad girl flirting with the notion of being good--"Colors" seems to have more going for it than it really does. Watch it mainly for the performances and the suggestion of complexity.