Ruuz
How do you review a movie like The Warriors? I've got a real short way for ya: The Warriors is the best movie of the 1970s.
Final rating:½ - Ridiculously strong appeal. I cant stop thinking about it.
The Warriors
- Action
- Thriller
2/1/1979
94
R
These are the armies of the night. They are 100,000 strong. They outnumber the cops five to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors.
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
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- Writers:
- Revenue:
- $22,490,039
- Budget:
- $4,000,000
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Cast
- Michael BeckSwan
- James RemarAjax
- David Patrick KellyLuther
- Dorsey WrightCleon
- David HarrisCochise
- Deborah Van ValkenburghMercy
- Brian TylerSnow
- Steve JamesBaseball Fury
- Tom McKitterickCowboy
- Marcelino SánchezRembrandt
- Terry MichosVermin
- Roger HillCyrus
- Lynne ThigpenD.J.
- Mercedes RuehlPolicewoman
- John SnyderGas Station Man
- Irwin KeyesPoliceman in Park
Reviews
John Chard
Can you dig it? Well actually yes Mr Hill, I bloody can!
During my schooling as a teenager there were a handful of films that it was deemed cool to love, The Wanderers, Scum, Quadrophenia and The Warriors, and it's perhaps a weird thing to say... but I still feel here in my middle age that these are still cool films to be adored and cherished.
I have just sat through The Warriors again for about the hundredth time in my life, and it still entertains me as much now as it did back then, sure it's dated, sure I see more cheese than I thought it had back then, but I also see a visually tight movie that actually delves interestingly into the lives and psyche of young gangers.
The plot is simple, all the gangs of New York City are calle...
Geronimo1967
In a dysfunctional New York City, the charismatic leader "Cyrus" (Roger Hill) assembles all the gangs and declares that it is time for them to overwhelm the police and to take control of their city. Amidst cheering crowds he is promptly gunned down - and the "Warriors" are held responsible. Led by "Swan" (Michael Beck) they must run a gauntlet of other avenging gangs and try to establish just who pulled the trigger. What now ensues is a really well paced, gritty, series of escapades that pit them against a whole range of thugs and hoodlums - of varying degrees of efficiency - whilst trying to evade the cops. Along the way back to Coney Island, they encounter serial hooker "Mercy" (Deborah Van Valkenburgh) and despite their initial hostility...