Walter Hill finished off the seventies with this little gem which has since become a cult legend. The Warriors mixes a cool futuristic feel with fifties rumble flicks, seventies style, and Greek legend. The end result is like street mythology, and certainly one of the all time must see action movie downloads.
The film follows The Warriors, a street gang from Coney Island, as they make their way to a meeting with Cyrus, the leader of the Riffs, the biggest gang in New York. Cyrus is a legend, and he riles the other gangs up with the idea of banding together, ending the bloodshed, and taking over the entire city, block by block.
That's when Cyrus gets shot! The leader of the Rogues, a low down gang of nobodies, takes a pot shot at Cyrus for no good reason, and pins the murder on the Warriors. Now the Warriors have to get back to their home turf, Coney Island, by racing across the city with every gang in New York City out for their blood. The film is one wild night from there on as they're hounded by their rivals, the Rogues, and the cops.
The film may remind you of Martin Scorsese's After Hours, in that it really just runs at breakneck pace from one crazy situation to the next. The difference is that The Warriors tends to focus on action where After Hours was more surreal, but the feel is very much the same as both movies simply run from one insane situation to the next.
What really drives the movie is the style, which is colorful, gritty, and glossy all at once. The streets are soaked with rain as neon lights cast an ethereal glow on everything. Setting the film in "the near future" gave Walter Hill a lot of creative license to have fun with the style of the film and do all kinds of weird stuff.
The music is a big part of the film's appeal, with some really great tracks like In the City and Nowhere to Run. The soundtrack all comes from the radios and stereos throughout the movie, providing a cool disco and Rock and Roll feel, and even providing another character for the film in the shape of a really cool, and mysterious, radio DJ who uses the airwaves to send messages to all the soldiers out on the streets.
The film was based on a novel of the same name, but the two stories are really quite different. Where the Warriors in the book are more amoral, more violent and ruthless, they're actually played as heroes in the film. Similarly, while the book paints gang life in an unflattering light, the fantasy feel of the movie justifies a sort of heroic, action movie angle to the proceedings.
There's supposedly a remake in the works, focusing on LA Bloods and Crips in the early nineties. It's doubtful that it will match the original, but we'll see.
The film follows The Warriors, a street gang from Coney Island, as they make their way to a meeting with Cyrus, the leader of the Riffs, the biggest gang in New York. Cyrus is a legend, and he riles the other gangs up with the idea of banding together, ending the bloodshed, and taking over the entire city, block by block.
That's when Cyrus gets shot! The leader of the Rogues, a low down gang of nobodies, takes a pot shot at Cyrus for no good reason, and pins the murder on the Warriors. Now the Warriors have to get back to their home turf, Coney Island, by racing across the city with every gang in New York City out for their blood. The film is one wild night from there on as they're hounded by their rivals, the Rogues, and the cops.
The film may remind you of Martin Scorsese's After Hours, in that it really just runs at breakneck pace from one crazy situation to the next. The difference is that The Warriors tends to focus on action where After Hours was more surreal, but the feel is very much the same as both movies simply run from one insane situation to the next.
What really drives the movie is the style, which is colorful, gritty, and glossy all at once. The streets are soaked with rain as neon lights cast an ethereal glow on everything. Setting the film in "the near future" gave Walter Hill a lot of creative license to have fun with the style of the film and do all kinds of weird stuff.
The music is a big part of the film's appeal, with some really great tracks like In the City and Nowhere to Run. The soundtrack all comes from the radios and stereos throughout the movie, providing a cool disco and Rock and Roll feel, and even providing another character for the film in the shape of a really cool, and mysterious, radio DJ who uses the airwaves to send messages to all the soldiers out on the streets.
The film was based on a novel of the same name, but the two stories are really quite different. Where the Warriors in the book are more amoral, more violent and ruthless, they're actually played as heroes in the film. Similarly, while the book paints gang life in an unflattering light, the fantasy feel of the movie justifies a sort of heroic, action movie angle to the proceedings.
There's supposedly a remake in the works, focusing on LA Bloods and Crips in the early nineties. It's doubtful that it will match the original, but we'll see.
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