Rated R for Ridiculously Stupid....

I actually caught this for the first time recently. It's a wholly depressing movie. Sure, it's fun when Fred Williamson's character first turns up and starts dishing out "justice" to the street thugs and the gang trash, but then you come to realize... they're all trash.

I don't think this is a movie black people should be proud of. If anything, it plays into every fear, hate and phobia white suburbanites have about inner city blacks. Sure, there's a couple scenes with the incompetent and ineffectual white cops and politicians, but that just reflects what white people think blacks think of them. And the solution the "heroes" come up with is to kill everyone. And like you said, after the slaughter, we're supposed to believe they just walk away?

Yeah, the gang members are thugs, and it can be enjoyable to see the thugs getting what they deserve, but... the solution is almost as bad as the problem.

Its a movie no different than when Arnold or Sly n company goes around offing the deserving baddies. Gangs, terrorists who cares if they're evil and kill innocent people they deserve a few bullets to the head or in this case a few blanks so that the squibs pop on cue. In short its a movie stop overanalyzing everything.

I rewatched it just now. Saw it when I was a little kid and I'm from NW Indiana. Gary kinda is like that. And it was the murder capital back then and is still bad.

However, it's more of a comedy/blaxploitation movie than it is a realistic action movie. I'm not from Gary but I heard some familiar streets get namedropped. But almost nobody from Gary talks like that. Especially Kayo. The worse character ever. Played by a horrible rapper, Dru Down. It's not completely inaccurate but they didn't care about a lot of easy things they coulda got right.

Gary typically has lots of crime, but not all of it's gang-related. More drug related. At most 2 gangs dominated it back then. Not three.

I'm more concerned with bad acting bad script, unrealistic stuff. If you got Molotov cocktails and civilians got bats and broomsticks, would they win. If one guy with SPAS-12 can stop a group of Rebels with his voice and not one shoots at him.

Then they OG's advanced without cover and not get hit when they coulda played it smarter and killed Damien and Spiro before going to the Mill.

However I can see why Blood didn't kill Jake or John at the mill. He probably was looking for a reason to kill Spiro. No matter how flimsy. And The Rebs was stupid for killing the Carlos mencia looking dude and The kid. Their only evidence. Entertaining but not good either.

haha i don't know why but I laughed my ass off when I read this thread title

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