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| Paramount Pictures | Release Date: February 9, 1979 |
Starring:
James Remar, Michael Beck
Summary:
In 1979 a charismatic leader summons the street gangs of New York City in a bid to take it over. When he is killed, The Warriors are falsely blamed and now must fight their way home while every other gang is hunting them down to kill them.
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Anyone expecting gritty realism will be disappointed, because Hill is offering something better: shooting entirely on NY locations at night, he has transformed the city into a phantasmagoric labyrinth of weird tribes in fantastic dress and make-up who move over (and under) the streets as untouched as troglodytes by the civilisation sleeping around them. Mixing ironic humour, good music, and beautifully photographed suspense, it's one of the best of 1979.
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It's like visual rock, and it's bursting with energy. The action runs from night until dawn, and most of it is in crisp, bright Day-Glo colors against the terrifying New York blackness; the figures stand out like a jukebox in a dark bar. There's a night-blooming, psychedelic shine to the whole baroque movie.
The Warriors is a visual feast. Director Hill fills the frame with vibrant colors, bright lights, and nonstop motion. The uniforms of the various gangs are unique, funny, fearsome, and more than a bit theatrical. The exciting fight scenes are brilliantly choreographed, and instead of focusing on the violence, Hill concentrates on pure movement (most of the cast were actually dancers).
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Walter Hill's existential action piece, rendered in a complete stylistic abstraction that will mean tough going for literal-minded audiences. Not quite the clean, elegant creation that his earlier films were, The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and dialogue (frequent), but there is much of value in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.
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The Warriors is a comic book morality tale, Westside Story crossed with A Clockwork Orange. The movie is so perversely fascinating in a variety of ways that it’s too bad the imagination demonstrated wasn’t used for something better than what turns out to be one more exploitation film in which the audience is encouraged to cheer the sights and sounds of mayhem.
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If the movie is not as dangerous as its detractors claim, neither is it as glorious and memorable as some of its less discriminating admirers would have it. I find the spectacle fading from my memory in a jumble of dislocated colors and motions. In retrospect, it seems too studiously unreal.
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The Warriors is a real peculiarity, a movie about street gang warfare, written and directed as an exercise in mannerism. There's hardly a moment when we believe that the movie's gangs are real or that their members are real people or that they inhabit a real city. That's where the peculiarity comes in: I don't think we're supposed to. No matter what impression the ads give, this isn't even remotely intended as an action film. It's a set piece. It's a ballet of stylized male violence.
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Apr 3, 2023
O filme da minha infância, sempre vou guardar no meu coração. Tudo nesse filme é ótimo, principalmente o começo, que introduz todas as gangues.
Estão perdendo a oportunidade de criar um filme na mesma pegada que esse.
Estão perdendo a oportunidade de criar um filme na mesma pegada que esse.
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Dec 22, 2020
Classsssic gangtsers of late 70s New York. different gangs, different lifestyles and cities throughout. i just wish they made a sequel or reboot.
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Jul 23, 2021
"Warriors come out to play-y....Warriors come out to play-y"
Classic, and atypical action movies; with some good dialogues, drama and Social commentary .
It's a little different from the book but it is enjoyable.
If there was an "action movie university" this movie will be on one of the textbook
Classic, and atypical action movies; with some good dialogues, drama and Social commentary .
It's a little different from the book but it is enjoyable.
If there was an "action movie university" this movie will be on one of the textbook
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Oct 29, 2018
Awesome Cult Classic! Great Characters. Amazing Plot. And The Baseball Furies!
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Nov 19, 2019
This film is like a 70s comic book, and it portrays itself like a comic book. But what makes this film so great is the storytelling.
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Apr 8, 2019
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