Dead Homiez

This combination movie/documentary, with an emphasis on the documentary part, turned out to be pretty good. Most of this is thanks to the cast, who for the most part are themselves gangmembers. Quite a few of them died before the movie was released. The documentary and the movie are split up into small segments and for every 2 documentary segments you get 1 movie segment.

Starting off with the documentary segments, it's a shame that certain gangmembers that the viewer is introduced to appear to be more interested in telling the viewer how cool they think they themselves or their gang is. Those that are willing to go beyond that and tell you what happened to who and for what almost invariably run a chill down your spine.

It's interesting to see the young gangstas spouting off about how what they're doing is necessary, whereas the older gangstas have since thought it through and wound up wondering how anybody could consider it worth it.

The movie segment had a hard time maintaining my interest. You basically see a couple of bangers doing their thing in the wrong hood, paying the price and their homies retaliating, which will of course result in a retaliation, and so on, and so on. It's sad to think that that's actually the way things go, but if you want to see a good movie about this sort of thing, check out Boyz N The Hood or Menace II Society.

7.5/10 for the documentary segments. 6/10 for the movie segments.

A well filmed, well cut, picture that shows the world what inner-city violence was all about. Thankfully, the gang violence had toned down since this film was last shot, which was during 1993 inside of South Central L.A.'s gang sets.

But what is so compelling about this flick is that it shows you REAL gang members who were sharing their tales to you, as well as having some REAL incidents brought to life on the screen. This is not a standard-type movie, a half-documentary and half motion picture is what it is, and it all runs through so smoothly. Getting you to know the gang "colors" red flags for the bloods/pirus and the blue rags for the crip sets. The narrators are former OG's (old/original gansters) who break it down to the YG's, (young gangsters) as well as you, the viewer, of what went down during the gang-banging lifestyle, Incidentally, a few of these narrators had wounds to show which can be slightly disturbing.

This film was finally released on video a few years later in 1997. Apparently several of the participants of this flick didn'nt make it to see the final cut. Nonetheless, this is a film that should be seen, noticed, and acknowledged about the consequences and the prevention that plauged many lives in Los Angeles and across the nation.

VIEW IT!