Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A street gang from Staten Island must get back home after a get together of all the New York gangs goes awry and they become hunted.
To many this is a classic cult film and whilst this didn’t hit me in the same way something like Battle Royale did in that regard, I did find a lot to like about this film.
To get the negatives out of the way first I didn’t like the pacing off this film, it felt far longer than it actually and does drag in places. Moreover, the performances are a deeply mixed bag some of them are good but some are laughably bad, to the point where there is no way you can imagine them as gang members.
In terms of what I enjoyed, I liked the style of the film I thought it was very distinctive and had almost an apocalyptic feel to it that I thought worked really well. Furthermore, I also thought the film communicated great threat during its runtime, as such you were worried for the fate of the characters as danger seemed to lurk around every corner.
Overall, not perfect but very much a snap shot of a point in time.
Pros.
The style
The ending
The threat
Cons.
The pacing
Some of the performances were quite bad
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