1979 · action · crime
The Warriors
Directed by Walter Hill1h 34m1979
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.
Our read: The Warriors (1979) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, measured action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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