Blood in Blood Out Review - Off The Shelf Reviews

[@diegonunez6691]

You guys got it twisted .. yes it's about gangs, and prison but the reason your not satisfied with the prison and gang content.. is because the movie is more about the brother hood... it's more about how two half brothers (Paco and cruz) and a cousin (miclo) grew up in East La and went there separate ways as they grew up....thats why it end just like that.... the movie was more about the love/hate they had towards eachother that's why at the end they had that talk........this movie is the most beautiful gang movie out there....every Mexican/Hispanic kid..even other races that grew up in southern California can relate to that movie or characters in that movie...its the best

[@TIENxSHINHAN]

Diego Nunez you don't even have to be from south California to relate. I grew up around Dallas gang culture and the barrios out here, I can still relate to it.

[@edwardsanchez3708]

@@TIENxSHINHAN same here out of Houston. These guys just don't get it and they are watching it with new eyes not the eyes from 1993

[@kramalerav]

American Me was better.

[@EddieBloecher]

Same in Denver too.

[@renemies78]

This review was like a Christmas present for me. I grew up in East LA and the scenes outside of the prison were literally filmed in my neighborhood a block away from my parent's home. I remember seeing them filming the scenes where the three main actors are driving in the car the newly painted car with the drawing of the woman on the hood of the car. I remember seeing them film a few other scenes so it's really cool seeing this review. There's actually 2 different versions of the movie. The theatrical cut and the extended director's cut which you guys saw. It shared a similar fate as "The Warriors" where real gang members were showing up to watch the movie and would start fighting in the theater so the movie was pulled. But I agree with you guys, too long at over 3 hours and the happy "Hollywood Ending" just doesn't work. Really cool review guys!

[@acb723]

I never knew that TBH . That they pulled the film from theaters because of turf tingz. I'm 27 so this movie came out i think a few months after or a few months before me and my twin sister where born. Was born june of 1993 but love this fucking film . 😍😍😍

[@luisgarcia-dt7zx]

That dude reviewing the film looks like Silent Bob 😂

[@johnconnor210]

This film is actually a cult classic. It's one of the first films that captures the Mexican American street culture.

[@nodinitiative]

Give me some Chon Chon!!!

[@mrrictus]

"Ahhh, you want me to take it?"

[@corc1992]

Blood In Blood Out is one of the unsung masterpieces of the 90's !

[@jonny1251]

You keep saying "Latino" but the movie is actually specifically about Chicano culture in East LA. Chicano being first generation mexican american.

[@kramalerav]

Yes but the main characters are nevertheless still Latino.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

This movie is basically the same inspiration as "American Me" (which is much grittier). Both were inspired by the infamous prison gang the Mexican Mafia (AKA La Eme). American Me specifically states that it is about the Mexican Mafia and mentions the other two big prison gangs like the Aryan Brotherhood and Black Guerrilla Family, but Blood In, Blood Out uses a fictional name for these gangs. Funny enough, both take liberties with facts, but the facts that are left out of one movie are usually present in another.

[@richardrude9087]

Libertatem Advocatus You should check out the KZbin channel SAME DIFFERENCES. They’ve reviewed both AMERICAN ME and BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT in depth and both videos are only like 15-20 minuets. If you like these movies they do a way better job of breaking them down intelligently.

[@cretrucker6979]

Libertatem Advocatus wrong

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

@@cretrucker6979 How am I wrong?

[@FilthTribeFTP]

Yeah, except the liberties that American Me took with "facts" ended up getting a lot of the advisors killed and a hit put out on Edward James Olmos and the director. He was real close to becoming "Deadward James Almost", lmao.

[@libertatemadvocatus1797]

@@FilthTribeFTP There were two MAJOR liberties that pissed off La Eme. 1) Portraying Cheyenne as getting raped in prison as a youth. 2) Having Cheyenne getting murdered by La Eme when he was really killed by the Nuestra Familia. It does more accurately portray the alliances between the prison gangs, the relationship between La Eme and street gangs, and how it actually operates. However those two liberties were rather stupid (and extremely dangerous).

[@SDallstar]

Paco and Cruz are step brothers, and miklo is their cousin.

[@cultofthorn]

Big Al wasn't doing anything sexual with the gaurd, he was giving him money to smuggle out/in to the prison because they were running the illegal gambling. This movie is uber Americana. If you grew up in the US, you would've liked this movie much more than you did. You guys rock 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻 Now I have to get back to killing all the characters in Until Dawn cause I need that trophy!!!

[@yeahbee8237]

I grew up in Sweden and my and my mates loved it and still do as teenagers we just thought the gangsta culture was cool, as adults we see the great drama

[@jeffmartin9753]

Word.

[@MrPrice2U]

My buddies and I, here in Germany, watched it when it was released, making "Vato-Talk" our second language for a few years, orale!

[@STAUNCHTV]

This movie is sacred to Hispanics and is indeed an Epic!!!!!

[@Lewthegod]

you might be the first to review this classic movie. 👍👍

[@richardvasquez6746]

La Onda don't shine shoes!!

[@skylarksinera]

First They Complain About How The Movie Was To Long,Then Get Mad When There Wasn't More *SMH*

[@gguerrero6063]

i don't think they understood the movie

[@kramalerav]

I always love the “well you just didn’t get it” rebuttal. Look, the reviewers were judging the movie objectively on cinematic grounds. Which is how any and every film should be reviewed. And they were spot on.

[@lazloryder]

Not epic?! Ask any Latino, any REAL Latino, this is the greatest movie of all time!!

[@kramalerav]

OK but its popularity with Latino audiences seems to be based more on nostalgia and depicted cultural aesthetics than being an objectively good film. Let’s be honest, much of the acting is pretty weak.

[@floex831]

+Off The Shelf Reviews Immediate thumbs up on this!! Jesse Borrego has done 24 and Dexter. Raymond Cruz has played a lot of gang bangers but he also did Star Trek!

[@cambellfan22]

you guys should review American me

[@bladeguru6358]

The best gangster movie that nobody has ever heard of!! Good video.

[@yeahbee8237]

not epic? viva vatos locos! it for sure have some larger than life moments, or atleast larger in the characters perspective Miklos is corny, but some gangsters are actually quite corny IRL, wannabe gangsters and so on

[@andrewdeen1]

There’s an awesome but intimate little documentary about the film Damien chapa made called ‘Miklo’- it’s over an hour and free on KZbin - you guys would like it. Talks about the Disney stuff, riots and release. Damien chapa has a lot more in common with miklo than I thought.

[@vinniecorleone62]

A great review, my old cousin & room mate Geoff Rivas is in this film, I remember him rehearsing for it day & night. I remember living & working in LA when this was made & living through the riots then, I'm not surprised it was altered for that time & place. It was a great film at the time it came out, you really can't compare the grittier newer gang films to it any more than you can other genres, you have to see it through the eyes of the times.

[@gguerrero6063]

this movie is legendary yall tripping

[@dopesickjones6649]

Great review though guys I'm glad more people will see this movie because of this, you guys should check out the great movie SLC Punk

[@owotiktok]

Blood In Blood Out one of my all time favorites.

[@BlackDonner305]

Another film came out one year before this one (1992) called "American Me". The prison segments are almost identical.

[@Xantheus07]

Wow you guys watched the same movie and seen different things. Like i clearly saw the guard and Big Al were talking about the books and payouts nothing sexual at all.

[@NallePu83]

Spanish mother or latino is not the same

[@shawnallen9275]

Jesse Berrego was also Cyrus The Virus's henchman in CON-AIR. The guy who Cyrus lit on fire with a cigarette after he was covered in gasoline, or petrol, like you guys say.

[@shawnallen9275]

Oh, and the finger popping by Iain had me cracking the fuck up!! Haha!!

[@matthias_samahl1266]

Jesse Berrego they should totally review 'Con Air' it's so much fun!

[@skylightmotionpicture1412]

Just a couple corrections: It's BGA (Black Guerrilla Army) not BGE; It was not Miklo who betrayed Montana, but Magic...who is explaining to Miklo that that was Onda needed to do; Miklo and Paco are cousins....Paco and Cruz are step-brothers...their little brother is half brother to both; the text at the end is reference to San Quentin and its manner of allowing prisoners to walk around freely on their cell block; the screenwriter (who also portrays one of the La Onda members) wrote this based on his own life so it does come from an authentic place

[@radbrownbeats]

@Marlon Yasin Miklo didn’t know it was Magic until he presented him the comb mold. That’s why Miklo is shocked and the music underscores this twist. He accepts what has happened and moves forward as Jefe. I’ve seen this movie at least 30x, so trust me, that’s how it went down

[@skylightmotionpicture1412]

@Marlon Yasin no need to get upset, brotha. The context is that Magic was protecting Miklo from his own short-sightedness in trying to follow Montana's initial plan. Magic wasn't sure that with Montana out of the picture, if Miklo was going to rise to the occasion and take out BGA after they take out the Polar Bears. That's when Magic revealed his orchestration and Miklo is shocked saying "I loved Montana." Magic says "we both did" and then explains why he had to do it. If you don't believe me, just read the synapsis on Wikipedia or watch any other in-depth analysis. Sorry man....I get shocked occasionally when something I was so sure about in films watched growing up turns out not to be how i remembered it.

[@skylightmotionpicture1412]

@Marlon Yasin you're saying the right words from the scene, but taking it in a different context than how it's intended and how everyone else interprets it. Damian Chapa has talked about this scene and Miklo's simultaneous shock and acceptance of Magic's orchestration in an interview as well. This narrative is already affirmed. Additionally, the music underscores the emotion and signals to the audience that this was a twist and learning about this at the same time as Miklo.

[@EddieBloecher]

Paco was in the Marines not the Army and there was no major war during the years depicted. Maybe Grenada Invasion or Beriut both in 83 but no other major conflicts until Desert Storm in 91. So he could have been a peacetime Marine. Still honorable service. Love Ya Brothers

[@maxamillionese8519]

Wrong Wrong Wrong!!! This Movie is Fucken EPIC 100%. Great Review Vatos Locos thanks for reviewing this Firme Movie ..

[@mroctober3583]

@54:25 you make the best point of all. I personally wish the movie was longer, but I also get culture movies ain't everybody's "...cup of coffeeee❄️"

[@mikegleed5842]

See what you did there 😎☕

[@markymarkartwork6268]

This entire movie can't help but be a meme

[@markymarkartwork6268]

#meme

[@dannydelapaz303]

Loved this review! Can you guys do a review of AMERICAN ME?

[@VredesStall]

@13:15 & 13:35 Ironic how it was Miklo who intervened & stopped Paco from squeezing the trigger... only for Miklo to shot and kill Spider mere moments after he had pretty much saved his life. As Paco put it: "Life's a risk, Carnal".

[@willschwarting2224]

Good film, better review. Keep being awsome guys. Request - American Psycho

[@Keepcalmandbangscrew]

Jesse also played “mi vida loca” great movie

[@cretrucker6979]

Ummm.. he didn’t put on an accent.. he’s Mexican American

[@kramalerav]

Just because he’s Mexican-American doesn’t mean he wasn’t affecting an accent.

[@anthonyzarate9807]

Of course this movie is not going to be like Boyz in the Hood or Menace to Society. Those movies had huge budgets, big name actors, and a lot of marketing! Of course, what they (the reviewers) think and feel about a movie is not wrong, just something that they cannot relate to. P.S. This movie is good and I think that Cruz, Big Al, and Chuey (the actors who played them) did a great job and were the standouts. Paco (who is NOTHING like Benjamin Bratt) & Miklo (Damien Chappa isn't too far from this character in real life) did pretty good as well. There were a bunch of really good supporting, smaller roles as well. I liked Danny Trejo, Billy Bob, the prison guard (Mike Genovese), Rollie McCann (Biff from Back to the Future), Ving Rhames, and a few others.

[@kramalerav]

You got it backwards; Blood In Blood Out had higher production values (made by Hollywood Pictures) than Menace II Society and Boyz, as well as having a more established director at the helm. This movie only seems smaller because it wasn’t heavily marketed nor the box office hit that those other two films were.

[@jorel4477]

Wow, great choice guys. The great outdoors, Big or home alone soon?

[@ClaudMP]

Funny that he complains about the length of the movie, still makes the longest review in history.

[@rydz656]

Colors review next?

[@Lewthegod]

Rydz they said they would do Color’s. As classic as that film is, there are no reviews anywhere on youtube. I think they would be the first to do it. That film screams the 1980’s like a’lot of these so called 80’s based films should just reference it and try to capture that era.

[@makaveli4205]

Ya that's a cool movie. The title song bye ice t is really hard.

[@ianthomas1201]

It says a lot about a movie when reviewers want MORE content from it.

[@tevinwms1104]

Great review as always!!! Please consider reviewing these films in the not too distant future: 'Runaway Train' (1985), 'The Blob' (1988), 'Days of Thunder' (1990), 'Trespass' (1992), 'The Program' (1993), 'Dead Presidents' (1995), 'The Ghost and The Darkness' (1996), and 'Gridlock'd' (1997).

[@eyeswideopen4]

Warriors

[@Lawrence_xx]

When I first watched Blood in, Blood out it was on VHS. That version edited out a ton of the material that is on the DVD. The VHS version flows so much better but some of the additional scenes on the DVD add some detail. They need to release that version because I sick of watching all those extra scenes.

[@rustykuntz94]

Great movie, you hit the nail on the head about the length. Even as a kid first watching this when it came out I thought it was wayyy too long and the 3rd acts pace is just dragged out painfully long. They could of edited 40-45 minutes out of this and it would have made it 5 stars for me. Just too many jail sequences that weren't needed but this is still a amazing picture.

[@kingvega3814]

They paralyze the man for the rest of his life and that was tame ??? shame on yall and those damn hell raiser films lol

[@kramalerav]

I am pretty sure they were merely commenting on how the scene was filmed and edited. Calm down.

[@PhantomBones101]

I like this movie now but as a kid (7 to be exact) this movie actually scared me because of how violent it was to me. Plus seeing that kid die from the needle freaked me the fuck out

[@arroubagabriel]

Such good analysis! 2009's A Prophet would be a perfect follow-up

[@AubreyTheKing]

So the movie just ends? Damn.

[@dopesickjones6649]

Vatos locos forever homes Simone carnal🤙

[@joshuaburris6805]

Hours movie could have lasted 2 days and I would still rewatch it

[@salvatrooch6537]

God bless you for reviewing this !!!! This is classic

[@maxvaldezsontros23]

I love this movie this way we have always been one of my favorites but I do agree with you guys on one think that it is much longer than what it needs to be there is a theatrical cut is what I grew up with and if I remember correctly instead of it being 3 hours it is about two and a half hours maybe you could find the theatrical version of it is the way that I've always understood it is at Blood In Blood Out is the theatrical version and the one that just says Bound by Honor was the director's cut

[@maxvaldezsontros23]

the guy who wrote this movie is the guy who plays the second-in-command to Montana and how he put it is that he's the one that wrote this movie he was in prison and he is all three of these characters and right now he is and Paco's State of Mind to where he is a better person he's a person that has wept but has never wept before in his life he is humbled and I think the ending of the movie indicates how you want the movie to end I can see Paco quitting the force I can see him working for his family and him reuniting with miklo later on down the line or Miklo get killed and Paco and Cruz learned from equal ml mistakes of course

[@Selfloathingmisanthrope]

I thought that the fire hydrant drop was pretty brutal. That and the white teen growing into a latino man are the only two things that stuck from watching this way back when.

[@jaktil9246]

In blood in blood out and american me it shows an attack on a black club being attacked by grenades did it really happen in los angeles?

[@zepptar]

The only thing long about movie….is this review

[@AarenJable]

I think I'll skip this film but I enjoyed the review regardless.

[@richardrude9087]

Cruz and Paco are both Juanito’s brothers because he’s the child of Paco’s Mom and Cruz’s Dad. And Miklo is their cousin because his mom and Paco’s Mom are sisters.

[@yeahbee8237]

Damian Chapa was in the great Dune miniseries to

[@The_Guy0314]

This was a bad review. Btw they werent friends they were cousins nd paco nd cruz were half brothers

[@matthewburgess6076]

Great review big fan of this film, all the scenes in San Quentin were awesome! Didn't they kind of make remake on this? But wasn't as good...

[@bbqnetwork8536]

Hello can you please review white nights and also Against All Odds

[@uawc82]

This wasn’t an epic review, just too epically long!

[@fmbcproduction794]

You gotta grow up in that environment to love this movie, I grew up in Boyle Heights in the 90s and 2000s, this movie was very relatable

[@Brush19138]

I remember the first time seeing this film's ending, feeling betrayed after sitting through three hours. One of the jankyiest cobbled together endings of all time.

[@seancocksmith1375]

Vatos locos forever.....

[@yeahbee8237]

I think the Paco and Cruz scenes are the best

[@pablogracia305]

Orale ese ! Real good movie chicos ! I can't wait for the next review! Saludos desde España amigos ! ;)

[@GojiraRising]

Menace II Society should be next.

[@cultofthorn]

Jose Hernandez they already did it

[@GojiraRising]

cultofthorn new to the channel. Lol

[@cultofthorn]

Then welcome and enjoy. AND subscribe.

[@davidcokeley2918]

Can you guys review He Never Died!

[@MisterFugginRomero]

You guys should review Four Lions.

[@erihor86]

21:06 sounds like oberyn martell

[@aaddaamm1100]

best movie ever done! veto's locos forever carnal!

[@vinnieharris4716]

Your reviews are so highly entertaining and informative.

[@The_Guy0314]

Same differences review understands the movie nd actually dissects it better

[@CrashedOutComedy]

its so cute to see you guys talk about this movie hahhaha

[@robsonpormann5397]

hey Gary. i hope you're alright, love.

[@El_notorious_Americano]

You guys missed the point if it had the gang and prison violence but that wasn't the point each character had their development and became the opposite of the original one Paco was a gangster the leader and would be nothing in life but that change after he join the military and turned his life around Miklo wanted to fit some where and have a "home" so in the end he became the leader with power and belongs somewhere now he used his brains to take over Cruz was an inspiration he was gonna go some where but he got addicted to drugs and let that ruin him and his relationships so at the end all he wanted was for paco to forgive himself as he did when he went to Juanito grave and reconnected with his family It's about brotherhood and finding an Identity a place to belong and that's what you guys missed in all that

[@MichaelPalmer531]

Vatos Locos 4 ever y'all.

[@UnCreativeDeconstructionism]

*Turn Up*

[@bryane3217]

this movie is epic !! BALD fuck

[@handsomestik]

Odelay vato!!!

[@diegonunez6691]

eric brown orralle*****

[@MrPrice2U]

SPIDER FTW!

[@mikegleed5842]

Amazing Film 🎥🎬👌

[@thecawmaster9892]

👊

[@EddieBloecher]

VATO LOCOS FOREVER ESAI!!! 😊

[@87g4g3]

Hrafninn Flýgur the raven flies review it. Regards Iceland. Good show. Vatos locos por siempre esse!

[@JohnnyPaisan]

You don't like that it's 3 hours but you wanted more to be put in lol. This could of been 3 movies, but that would of broke it up.

[@barbarosb9900]

🐐🐐

[@Est93]

the godfather over rated never got through the whole thing

[@jorel4477]

Scrooged, Manchester by the sea

[@makadoshez1564]

Funny how you guys complain about the length of the movie from the get go in this half hazard review of Blood In Blood Out. Yet your "review" of the movie goes for nearly an hour.... What up wid dat?

[@Ctrl1u]

Ur review of this movie was superficial. This review was way to long.

[@YOUANDME527]

This film is so bad I watched it on KZbin it's terrible a blue eyed white guy pretending Latino acting Mexican with really bad actors

[@Keepcalmandbangscrew]

Something a trump supporter would say

[@Belowone]

He’s half white half Mexican .

[@kramalerav]

@@Belowone Mexican is not a race.