I don’t know what fates conspired against me on getting this review done. I tried once back in 2005. Maybe got too drunks. It...happens. Time passes. It’s on The List, I gots to do it, plus it’s one of my bro’s favorite films to boot. So, to the now, DMR Prep for the eve, beer-and-shot buzz goin, and then some shit happens. Not here, but some other shit. Stymied again! But back on that horse, 3 days later. Prep, buzz, 5 minutes into the film, Storm knocks out the Electricity. Are you Shittin’ me?!? But power came back shortly after, and this is how it plays out…
New York City. All the big Gangs are being called for a Big Meeting. Cyrus, he’s trying to unite all the factions, knows strength in numbers, gangs vs cops. And he has the voice and reputation to maybe actually pull it off, and with a truce being called with no weapons or ass-hattery attitudes, 9 members of each gang get to go represent, listen, see if they are good with it. The Warriors, all the way out in Coney Island, never even been down to the Bronx before. But worth checkin it out. And it’s an interesting concept, as more gang members consider it. And maybe even dig it. Then shit goes sideways, cops, chaos, and the Warriors get A-Teamed while having no weapons or train tokens to get back home, and are pretty much be hunted by every gang in the city. It makes for...a long night.
Widening the view, this actually has a heavy Greek mythologies influence in the names and the overall story and journey-arc. It comes off more as an adventure kind of story, as the Warriors try to make their way back home. It’s gritty, not everybody makes it back to the Wonder Wheel. And a nice scene on the train where beat up gang members face normies who are on their way home after a wedding, the reactions of each where their two totally different worlds intersect. As exaggerated as the plot is, great scene to ground it back into reality. Pretty good storytelling here by director Walter Hill, an interesting mix of New York gangs just doing their thing bippin and boppin to their trials and tribulations. And they even almost get laid. Well, some of em, anyhows. And yeah, maybe not. Those Lizzies seem like they might be...vagitarians?
