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Colors

Colors

1988
Drama, Crime
2h 0m
Set in the East L.A. barrio, Colors stars Sean Penn and Robert Duvall as very different cops, both in age and temperment, hand picked for the city's anti-gang campaign. As partners, they daily drive their unmarked car through the warring Los Angeles neighborhoods. Their simple code of endurance: Keep peace in the streets at any price! [MGM]
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Colors

1988
Drama, Crime
2h 0m
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Rated 02 Nov 2009
60
47th
This is supposed to be good or "important" or something, but it just ain't there. Wonky directorial touches fail to keep you from noticing how painfully conventional this is in many ways
Rated 05 Jul 2014
75
65th
Damon Wayans in this: http://i.imgur.com/ZZOmtct.gif
Rated 26 Apr 2017
60
30th
Feels like a serious and realistic cop movie occasionally interupted by a bunch of random, weird Saturday Night Live skits.
Rated 11 Sep 2023
66
51st
Originally intended to be filmed in black and white, producer Robert H. Solo eventually relented that the title might not make any sense.
Rated 24 Feb 2007
50
35th
Not bad at all.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
88
89th
Very gritty realistic portrayal of gang life and cops in LA. Sean Penn is a douchebag, but he is as always very good alongside Robert Duvall as LA cops doing battle with gangs. Excellant movie.
Rated 15 Dec 2007
72
53rd
Rather groundbreaking for its time, provides a pretty accurate picture of gangs. However, it provides no sorts of solutions and is curiously reserved, uncharacteristic of director Hopper.
Rated 03 Apr 2008
70
66th
Doesn't seem as edgy and controversial anymore.
Rated 29 Jul 2008
80
84th
Apparently the sound design is used by universities here in Oz as examples of good sound design. I love the flick anyway
Rated 23 Jul 2009
72
68th
Two great actors show us the life of cops working in the wrong side of town.
Rated 17 Sep 2009
82
57th
I am a nightmare walking, psychopath talking, king of my jungle just a gangster stalking.......not a bad film, to tell you the truth.
Rated 20 Sep 2010
66
51st
Fairly dark look at the gang problems of L.A. in the 80's. Penn and Duvall are good.
Rated 27 Apr 2011
74
52nd
74.000
Rated 30 Aug 2011
60
53rd
Robert Duvall and Sean Penn drive around the ghettos of LA beating the absolute hell out of minorities. What else could you want?
Rated 05 Feb 2012
70
53rd
A great insight into the "barrio" of L.A.
Rated 18 Mar 2012
70
40th
Colors doesn't have quite the same charisma or appeal as its imitator Training Day, but still a very good movie about gang warfare and the police effort to combat it in Los Angeles.
Rated 07 Jan 2014
86
56th
Sean Pig
Rated 11 Aug 2014
80
50th
The movie's segmented and repetitious build permeates it with a pessimistic anarchy which neither the havoc nor sense of its protagonists can manage to change, a rationale ultimately clinched by its poignant ending.
Rated 11 Dec 2014
8
38th
I really liked the ending. Great parts on Duvall and Penn.
Rated 13 Oct 2015
44
17th
hard to make a boring film about cops out fighting gangbangers, guns, car chases & Maria Conchita Alonso getting it on but they managed it
Rated 26 Apr 2017
65
53rd
the direction and cast are good, it just doesn't come together very well as a movie. we get episodic insights into the life of gang-busting LA cops and the usual circle of violence stuff, but it's not engaging as a connected narrative, and most of it is way funnier than intended.
Rated 03 Mar 2019
65
60th
An early film dealing with the LA gang problem in a really direct way without resorting to complete stereotypes. The gang members very obviously embody the fashion trends of the time, but Penn and Duvall are not racist cops in need of moral rehabilitation. They are simply men caught up in the chaos and stress of having to navigate dangerous neighbourhoods marked by the trauma of violence and material deprivation. Duvall and Penn anchor the film when Hopper strays tonally off course.
Rated 23 Apr 2019
2
10th
pro-cop agitprop
Rated 04 May 2019
78
58th
To a healthy extent, this is better than similar films I've seen that proceeded it, since this is far more morally dynamic and less sentimental, and also features two very strong performers at its centre. Although later films depicting this era from the criminal's point of view is (and maybe should be seen as) more essential, this is simply better filmmaker (aside from the consistent feeling that it's not entirely new, the unexciting chase scenes, and the music really sucks).
Rated 10 Feb 2021
89
82nd
-Let's walk down and fuck em all.
Rated 27 Jun 2021
67
39th
You have to give credit to Colors for ushering in a new breed of urban crime movies that became huge in the early 90s. Hopper and Wexler capture various parts of LA with a gritty but artistic flare that makes for an interesting watch. I don't really think there is much of a message to the film, as it ends up focusing mainly on the budding friendship between two white cops. That is a problem when there is clearly so much else going on in the background that is far more interesting.

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