Reviews

True life experience from the mouth of the people who live it. It contains info on how the movie, American Me, was created around this neighborhood. Ex-gang-bangers (Veteranos) turned Community Activists, Gangbangers, and MCs tell the tales of the barrio in Los Angeles where another world exists. Be silent and don't blink as you watch and listen to what the kids in the neighborhood and the rest of the community has to say about living in the streets of LA and growing up in a hopeless environment where there is no other exposure that can show them another way of life. Make what you will of this film, in its true effects, it is the sincerity that is pictured. A great example of a good documentary film.

I don't know if I am just a wacko but I love these violent films. The way directors and actors like Scorcese, DeNiro, and Pesci display violence is so beautiful and artistic. One of my favorite shots in the film is when DeNiro is stomping and kicking some guy. I love it! I replay it overand over and watch it again and again. To see the expression on DeNiro's face and the way he moves. The way these actors embody the Mafioso image is spectacular. Scorcese makes art in these films because of the ordering of art. He makes the talent of other people shine and makes it his. The soundtrack, the acting, and the imagery is all blended in together to make beautiful films like Goodfellas, a movies that you can watch over and over and over and over...

This movie may have been cliché, it may have been a little corny sometimes but I would like to emphasize how good the movie was as well.

The fighting scenes were good. It is rare to see some real good sword fights on TV, other than the usual Matrix style or karate stuff we usually see. The Lord of the Rings had some good sword fights but this movie is bloodier. It has style too it but it stays realistic. Like the part with Tom Cruise slicing a guys neck and the head stays in place before it rolls off after the body drops. The director does a good job in letting the audience feel for Tom Cruises' character as we are taken inside his mind when flashbacks of war are shown and his cognitive process of memorizing his fights as he is in one.

Tom Cruise never dying after so many fights and battles and fighting 5 or sometimes even 100s against only him is a little on the fake side but nonetheless, the director gives us what we want! Who wants to see Tom Cruise die anyway, he is such a stud muffin! OK, just kidding, but it the movie gives us a good message in the end. When the last Japanese Samurai dies, he says something that you should think about for all peoples, whether they use guns or swords to fight.

It certainly is a teardropper if your a simple person that just needs a good hero's story for the Friday Night.