L.A. Wars

 

                                   This is probably one of the first and maybe the last times I ever have the thought of watching a movie that YouTube sensation Red Letter Media reviews, though granted when I saw that this film was on TUBI, aka cheap imitation to Netflix streaming service. I thought, oh cool this might be worth something to watch, well yes at first but then I slowly realize it’s also a little bit of no, towards this B-Movie action flick. L.A. Wars is, I guess a mix of every gangster movie with a little bit of both Beverly Hills Cop and Lethal Weapon, for which I can see Hollywood looking through this script and then just saying to the writers and filmmakers sure you can make this film for a cheap sum of money for finance, because even the producers who were reading this script obviously knew that this was on the crap scale.

                                   Raul Guzman, a small-time drug dealer, starts a gang war in Los Angeles when he takes on Giovani, the most powerful Mob boss in the city. Former police decide to intervene in the escalating conflict.

                                    In most B-movies there somewhat fascinating, in a strange way. For many reasons I guess when it comes to Hollywood their obviously looking for like the trend movie like first there was The Godfather in the seventy's then it was Scarface in the early eighty's then we had the cop films like Lethal Weapon and Beverly Hills Cop then producers of whoever financed it because I'm confident it wasn't a major Hollywood Studio so it's obviously maybe independent or running out of money studio, then they all decided okay lets combine all four movies together set it in the worst part of L.A. and make a movie, for which in all honesty makes the most sense when you think about it. The other thing is when it comes to lame cheesy action movies is why are they using so much cardboard boxes? Because the last time I watched Mystery Science Theater 3000 they had a movie called Future War and they set an entire fight scene in a cardboard factory and watching this film it's kind of hilarious watching two kickboxers fighting while there's old cardboard boxes lying around which is funny, but I don't understand the purpose, maybe because its cheap to break? Though when you think about it, they couldn't afford any stunt men, nor any of the padding for protection so I guess in fairness they had to of used cardboard boxes to protect their actors, in the cheapest way possible. With all of the B-movie cliché's that make this film funny, what makes this film unbearable to watch is the lead actor whose name is Vince Murdocco, whom I think is one of the worst actors to ever play a hero type character for many reasons he plays a cop that literally sucks at his job because he prefers killing the bad guys rather than solving actual crimes now if he was a soldier that suffered PTSD, I can get by that but him making inexcusable reasons as to why he slaughter so many bad guys is just so madding to even watch, that full disclosure I had to finish this film within two days which him being the star of the film was just way too hard to even see because I was screaming to shut him up. After watching this decent bad movie I've learned a valuable lesson, leave it to the professionals who insist on watching bad movies for a living like Red Letter Media and Mystery Science Theater 3000. Now as a movie itself, we’ll all I can say is, that's it's on TUBI and the service is free so if you feel adventurous and want to take a step on the wild side and see how accurate Los Angeles is in terms of a crummy s**ty city it still is to this day, have fun and go crazy folks but if you find Vince Murdocco's performance unbearable to watch I totally understand.