1990: The Bronx Warriors (1983)

That was an excellent one.

So much average

Best movie ever!

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

"1990: The Bronx Warriors" may get no points for originality, but it still has a certain cheesy charm going for it. It's nothing if not fun. Basically, it's an amalgam of ideas taken from earlier movies such as "Mad Max", "The Warriors", and "Escape from New York". It takes place in a post apocalyptic future where the neighbourhood of the Bronx has become a "no man's land" which the police don't bother with any more, and it's every piece of scum for themselves. Into this area comes Ann (Stefania Girolami Goodwin), daughter of the head of a massive arms manufacturing corporation. She wants no more to do with that life, and has run away before she can rightly inherit the corporation. Trash (Mark Gregory), the leader of a gang dubbed The Riders, falls in love with her and does all he can to protect her, even as the corporation sends its top thug, Hammer (Vic Morrow) into the Bronx to retrieve her. If one is familiar with the films of Italian director Enzo G. Castellari (who also has a supporting role here), they know to expect an entertaining diversion. This is colourful stuff, in more ways than one. The production and costume design, by Massimo Lentini, is particularly impressive, and the widescreen photography captures it all in high style. This vision of the future does have a certain decrepit look going for it. The music by Walter Rizzati is another very enjoyable asset, and helps to drive the movie forward. The action in this thing usually isn't very slick, but this aspect merely adds to the amusement factor. The characters are given great names - in addition to Trash, there's also Golan (George Eastman), Ice (Joshua Sinclair), Hot Dog (Christopher Connelly), Witch (Betty Dessy), Blade (Massimo Vanni), and The Ogre. The Ogre is a gang leader played by the almighty Fred "The Hammer" Williamson, who's at his charismatic best. Morrow, in what was sadly one of his final few roles, is a hoot as the crazed antagonist. Gregory has the right look for this sort of thing, but his hopelessly stiff "acting" will either elicit chuckles or groans from the viewer. The gangs, as in "The Warriors", each have their own gimmicks, including one highly unlikely bunch that can boast choreography. The story hits the ground running and builds up to a priceless resolution. The film may obviously be padded at times, but even the padding is pretty cool, such as the endless drumming on the beach. Fans of the post nuke genre should give this one a look, as it does have its moments throughout. Followed by the sequel "Escape from the Bronx". Eight out of 10.

How have I not seen this film. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm a fan of bad cinema especially exploitative action pics Savage, Streets, Chained Heat, Barbarian Queen, enough said. But this one...this one takes the cake. It centers on a young woman who escapes from Manhattan in the future "1990" it was made in 1981 which has becomes the arms capital of the world to the Bronx which has been declared a war zone full of degenerates. She immediately falls in with Trash and his gang. But when Her rich Dad sends a ridiculous assassin to get her back who in turns plans on turning all the Bronx gangs against one another or something well chaos ensues. Now let's talk Trash. Wow he is one of the most stupefying, badly dressed, hunky conic characters I've ever come across. He has long curly hair, a muscular broad chest and sports a very open leather vest that exposes his nipples from time to time and very tight Mom jeans that well just lets you see everything. oh and let me not forget about his knee high leather boots. Oh he is amazing. even more amazing is how committed he is too the role. And his acting is just so bad he even has an intensely dramatic crying homoertic moment when his best friend gets killed. And the film is filled with gorgeous moments like that. The bad ass assassin is about 60 and jumps down from first floor windows in slow motion, Fred Williamson shows up as a sort of disco pimp character and his sidekick is a feisty blond with silver claws, a whip and a shiny silver and black cape. And let me not forget about the gang on roller skates with rainbow elbow and knee pads and their samurai haired leader. Oh I could just talk about this movie all day. But here it is if your a fan of Trash cinema you will be a fan of Trash and his gang and this movie seek it out as soon as possible it's worth it

Enzo G. Castellari brings us 1990: I Guerrieri Del Bronx (a.k.a Bronx Warriors), yet another in a long line of Italian exploitation movies which shamelessly rip-off successful American movies of the time. This time the plagiarism is centred particularly upon two films – The Warriors (marauding gangs vying for supremacy in an urban wasteland) and Escape From New York (a large part of New York has been abandoned by civilisation and the law, and left to fend for itself). Bronx Warriors is not an especially good film, but it at least has a few interesting ideas and has attained moderate cult status down the years.It is 1990 and the Bronx district has become a lawless wasteland controlled by various gangs. The police stay away and let these gangs control their own affairs. Young runaway Ann (Stefania Girolami), a rich heiress soon to inherit ownership of an arms company, flees from Manhattan and hides out in the Bronx. She doesn't want anything to do with the company and is determined not to be found. Soon, she shacks up with a tough biker named Trash (Mark Gregory) and begins to erase her past identity. The company hires a ruthless bounty hunter named Hammer (Vic Morrow) to go into the Bronx to find her. He quickly sets about provoking the volatile gangs into confrontations against each other, hoping that the resulting chaos will either help him to locate the girl or lead to her death. By this stage Trash has fallen in love with Ann and is willing to risk everything to protect her. And one of the main gang leaders – self-proclaimed king of the ghetto The Ogre (Fred Williamson) – refuses to take outside interference lying down, and leads his gang into all-out war against Hammer and his crew.The film starts off promisingly enough, with a funky titles sequence and score. Castellari works well within his tight budget restrictions to create weird and wonderful costumes, desolate sets and brisk action sequences. But the film rapidly loses its way once our initial curiosity about characters and narrative wears off. The narrative is fairly non-existent throughout, and the characters are set up solely to kill or be killed in spectacular fashion later in the film. There are no convincing performances to be found – Gregory as the nominal hero is too camp by half to be believable as a macho tough guy. Williamson is under-used as a supposedly fearsome fighting machine, and Morrow is simply embarrassing as the film's primary villain. The film's trigger-happy (or should that be flame-thrower-happy?) climax briefly rouses things, but overall this is just an exercise in trash. Enjoyable trash (in small doses at least), but trash nonetheless.

I love movies like this, it takes me back to the 80's when movies were good, and cheesy was even better than blockbusters. Always been a fan of these Italian b-horrors and b-action exploitation films.Here its in the future of 1990 in No mans land THE BRONX. The city is a scary place to be and ran by several gangs that all hate each other. Gangs like The Riders, The Tigers, The Zombies and The Scavengers and no cop would dare step fun in here. A rich girl sick of her life runs into the Bronx where the leader of the Riders, Trash, saves her and makes her his girl. The outsiders want her back and send in a real bada** to get the job done. He tried to set the gangs up and turn them against each other, and all Hell breaks lose in "No mans land".From the great opening credits shots to the famous gang/police war finale Dardano Sacchetti, the greatest writer ever, delivers. I loved the direction by Enzo Castellari and the wonderful music by Walt Rizzati. Just a beautiful package of post war b movie delight. The costumes were great and the motorcycles were cool with the skull lights on the front. It was a fun movie. Yea there were flaws, the city wasn't shut down so you can see heavy traffic in the background and even once a guy fishing during a gang meeting, but it doesn't matter this movie is still awesome. There was some good bloody scenes to make horror lovers enjoy this film as well. One scene was weird yet I loved it, it was when all the gang members pull up out in the middle of the deserted ruins of the city and yet there's a guy setting there with a drum set playing the entire time...funny as hell, i loved it. I also found little flaws like the fact they never had anyone on guard.Great acting here. Mark Greggory is one of my all time favorite actors, why that man wasn't a film superstar I don't know, hes good looking, built like a Greek god, could play any nationality you needed him to and just well centered when on camera. Vic Morrow played the bad guy Hammer, and he's another great 70's and 80's b-movie legend. Fred Williamson is a good guy and he's often hit or miss, and here it was mediocre at best on his acting. He didn't blow my mind as he has before. Chris Connely as Hot Dog, and George Eastman in a wonderful role and Golan...the cast was great.I love this film, it is for someone with an acquired taste. I love Mark Greggory, Sacchetti's work is do no wrong for me. Enzo direction is beautiful, his whole crew does good. I love Italian exploitation and the story was action packed at times and entertaining...It was however not perfect and slow at times, it was far from original and I can't completely lie and say it deserves more than 6 out of 10 stars.