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Salute to the real ones that know that Letterboxd hasn’t put the actual title of this movie up.

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I could watch this street gang, brotherhood, la familia, macho kind of shit all day, homies.
Three hours flies by like nothing, carnales.
Vatos Locos forever, putos!

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BOYZ N THE HOOD + THE GODFATHER for vatos and carnales. An epic, memorable, violent, engrossing and delightfully goofy crime saga that showcases the Latin culture and brotherhood within a gang on the mean streets of Los Angeles. It's also gets quite over-the-top with it's sexuality once we enter the prison setting, including lines like "Now gimmie some chon chon!!!" and "I'm gonna lick you clean." But you know, in prison, I guess you need to give a little, to get a little. VATOS LOCOS FOREVER, ESE!

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If you look over his filmography, you'll notice that Taylor Hackford isn't afraid to experiment with different genres and stories, some of which work better than others (like this one) and some of which will leave you scratching your head. Now, whether he always succeeds or not is debatable.

In this three-hour-long crime drama, set on the streets of Los Angeles, we follow the story of three friends and how they each grew up to pursue different paths: one stayed with the gangs, while the other went to work for the law. We also see how these choices affect their lives and friendships as all hell breaks loose. Hackford does a terrific job striking a balance between the two genres,…

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If you don’t like this movie, you’re a bitch.

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One of the couple of 3 hour movies that I’m exicited and ready to put on at any given moment. Shoutout to my dad for saying “fuck it” and popping this in on a Tuesday night.

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Hackford/Baca really went full out and
made a masterpiece with this one, huh?

Review by CrisRosas👻 ★★★★½ Liked

A toda madre, o un desmadre.

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three hours of “órale bato ese”

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Written by poet Jimmy Santiago Boca who spent five years in a maximum security prison, the originally titled Blood in Blood Out is a ion filled epic about three Chicano men and the different paths they take after a tragic incident as teenagers. Director Taylor Hackford excels in adult drama and tends to give his actors showcase moments in films like Ray, An Officer and a Gentleman, Dolores Claiborne and The Devils Advocate. The standout here is Benjamin Bratt in one of his first roles. Though the film wasn't widely seen, his performance was surely noticed by casting directors. His career took off around this time. The camera absolutely loves him and his range is clear.

This is a guy…

Review by Kenneth Clark ★★★½ Liked

It’s pretty corny at times, and there’s some questionable performances throughout. But the melodrama of the three hour crime-epic is just engaging and poetic enough that the result is undeniably charming.

Review by Jacob Knight ★★★★

Rage against the machine.

Epic in length (trying to be a New Hollywood Telenovela), but microcosmic in its concerns regarding oppressive systems, there's a wonderful bombast to Hackford's exploitation opus (where he basically gets out of the way of an outsider's deeply personal script). The melodramatic pulpiness keeps it incredibly compelling, as the East LA location shooting mixes with these ostentatious stabs at "authenticity" once we're inside San Quentin and still very obviously exploring its sex, drugs and violence on a studio's (how this got a $35 million budget from Disney in '93 is astounding). It's not all successful, but totally stands shoulder to shoulder with full-throated second tier street operas like YEAR OF THE DRAGON ('85).