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1988
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3.8
Colors is a special movie not just a police thriller, but a movie that has researched gangs and given some thought to what it wants to say about them.
Rogerebert
4.5
Colors is a solidly crafted depiction of some current big city horrors and succeeds largely because of the Robert Duvall Sean Penn teaming as frontlin ..
Variety
1.5
Never as eccentric as The Last Movie or Out of the Blue, Colors nevertheless makes most other cop movies look formulary by comparison.
Time Out
5.0
Theres great pleasure in watching these two actors work. And Hopper, a great actor himself, knows what they need to thrive.
5.0
Its an exhilarating sparring match between Duvalls workmanlike fine tuning and Penns raw energy.
3.5
But the rumbles with switch blade knives and baseball bats are a relic of the past.
Spirituality And Practice
3.1
Unfortunately the end result is an unfocused hodgepodge of documentary realism, expressionism, TV cop show, liberal message movie, and violent action ..
Movies Tv Guide
4.5
The plot meanders in a way that makes the audience feel as if theyre on a ride along with its leads, but too much time is unnecessarily devoted to a l ..
Under The Radar Mag
4.5
Dennis Hoppers striking, controversial film was one of the first to attempt to get under the skin of LA gang culture, inspiring the many hood films th ..
Film 4
2.5
Penn and Duvall are two of our greatest actors, but here theyre posturing rather than performing, aware that theyre in an Important Film.
Clclt
3.0
There are a horde of another notable faces popping up in the films fabric (Mario Lopez, Jack Nance, Seymour Cassel, Tina Lifford) enhancing the nostal ..
Ion Cinema
1.5
To enjoy the movie, it is best to assume the directors mature point of view, who knows how to organize the distance that the camera must maintain befo ..
El Pais (Spain)
1.5
In fact there isnt a trace of glamorisation of either criminals or police.
Archive Spectator
3.0
What is there to write about a lacklustre gang related film that wants to be more than it amounts to
Apollo Guide
4.0
There is a realism about Colors that haunts this disturbing picture of gang life in Los Angeles with the kind of sadness and violence that marked Rebe ..
Upi
1.5
The depiction of gangs in Colors doesnt go deep enough to arouse any passions. The movie makers are more interested in the cops, and they seem to thin ..
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