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Movie Reviews of Walkout
Movie Review: Great Movie, important part of LA history
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this movie. The version I saw was an all but finished screening with the director a few weeks before the movie was shown on HBO. The movie had its cheesy moments but ultimately redeemed itself. I thought it was very well done.
I agree with the previous reviewer...this movie will make you proud of Chicano history the way Iron Jawed Angeles makes you proud of Women's History.
Movie Review: EXCELLENT
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great movie to show to young Latino youth that are messing up in school. So they can see what the Latino/Chicano/Mexican American youth had to endure and fight for in the 60's against the public school system. When I have shown this movie to my students in Sunday School at our church it totally changed them!Movie Review: Civil Rights
Summary: 4 Stars
The Civil Rights Era is a time in American history when Black, Red and Brown equality movements all took flight. Everything from the Sitins of 50s and 60s to the takeover of Wounded Knee to the LA Walkouts all point to a period when America began to open itself to the full richness of many of its culture groups. This film tackles one aspect of the Chicano power movement that typically does not get a lot of airtime and Director Edward James Olmos (who appears briefly) does a great job of getting this story out. This is one film that everyone should see.Movie Review: Almost a documentary
Summary: 3 Stars
Good intentions doesn't make a good movie, that's what I felt when I saw Walkout, the tale of a group of mexican americans (or chicanos as they are proud to be called) LA students in the late 60's, who fight, among other things, for the right of history recognition, respect of their heritage and equal treatment. So far so good, the fight for civil rights (Costa Gavras, Spike Lee, to name two directors who have acomplished great movies dealing political issues) can be material for the kind of films that stick in your soul for a lifetime, but Walkout falls short of achieving that goal, even though the ambientation is great, the movie is episodic and not very interesting. Its like a cable tv political panflet. I like Edward James Olmos and his passion for the latino cause, I hope his next project will be less obvious, that's what art and movies are about.
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