Colors (1988)
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso
Synopsis:
An experienced cop takes his rookie partner on patrol through the suburbs of L. A., as they attempt to negotiate the implications of endemic gang violence.
Review:
The ultimate Dennis Hopper movie: a film in which Dennis Hopper does not appear, but in which everybody speaks like him, or, worse still, in coded ghetto dialect, rap, jive and all that. What adds further to the confusion is that all the characters seem to be called Holmes... (homeys!) Joking apart, this is like an updated version of Joseph Wambaugh's The New Centurions, slightly better directed, with a couple of well-executed chase sequences, and as honest about life in the LAPD, but no pace-setter.
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso
Synopsis:
An experienced cop takes his rookie partner on patrol through the suburbs of L. A., as they attempt to negotiate the implications of endemic gang violence.
Review:
The ultimate Dennis Hopper movie: a film in which Dennis Hopper does not appear, but in which everybody speaks like him, or, worse still, in coded ghetto dialect, rap, jive and all that. What adds further to the confusion is that all the characters seem to be called Holmes... (homeys!) Joking apart, this is like an updated version of Joseph Wambaugh's The New Centurions, slightly better directed, with a couple of well-executed chase sequences, and as honest about life in the LAPD, but no pace-setter.
Country: US
Technical: col 120m
Director: Dennis Hopper
Cast: Sean Penn, Robert Duvall, Maria Conchita Alonso
Synopsis:
An experienced cop takes his rookie partner on patrol through the suburbs of L. A., as they attempt to negotiate the implications of endemic gang violence.
Review:
The ultimate Dennis Hopper movie: a film in which Dennis Hopper does not appear, but in which everybody speaks like him, or, worse still, in coded ghetto dialect, rap, jive and all that. What adds further to the confusion is that all the characters seem to be called Holmes... (homeys!) Joking apart, this is like an updated version of Joseph Wambaugh's The New Centurions, slightly better directed, with a couple of well-executed chase sequences, and as honest about life in the LAPD, but no pace-setter.