The Warriors

1979 "These are the armies of the night. They are 100,000 strong. They outnumber the cops five to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they're all out to get the Warriors."
7.5| 1h34m| R| en| More Info
Released: 09 February 1979 Released
Producted By: Paramount
Country: United States of America
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Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.

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Action, Thriller

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Director

Walter Hill

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Paramount

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The Warriors Audience Reviews

Evengyny Thanks for the memories!
Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.
Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
lukem-52760 What can be said that hasn't already? The Warriors truly is a 70s Classic, an exciting urban Thriller set in the neon drenched night time world of street gangs in New York City. This is a fantasy film but full of reality of the times & the gritty-violent battleground that New York City was back in the 70s & 80s & this movie captures everything & it's actually beautiful to look at with all those colourful gang costumes & glowing Neon lights in the background, the cinematography is stunning.The Warriors gang are set up for an assassination & are basically just being hunted & chased through the dangerous city streets & it's so much fun!!! Great characters such as warriors leader SWAN played with tough intensity by Michael Beck or AJAX played with Anger & a mouth by James Remar!!! A BEAUTIFUL looking movie thanks to Andrew Laszlo the fantastic cinematographer & directed with fast exciting & thrilling intensity by the great WALTER HILL
LauerViolence The great point about this movie, which made me like it in a way, is that it manages to transport a certain feeling, an atmosphere. The design of the different gangs and their behavior is a big plus point. It kind of reminds one of the droogs from clockwork orange. This point alone is a reason to watch. But, to lower your expectations a bit, the plot line is acted out in a very flat and unsatisfactory manner. While the main-plot is about what i expected when i i first watched it, the (supposed to be) romantic subplot is badly written and carried out even worse. The movie could very well do without it, the romance seems to be crammed in just to have on at all cost, which is sadly the case with a lot of movies, but really kills the mood in this one. All in all, i'd recommend watching it once but not expect too much of it. It's a nice watch but it's not exactly a great movie.
j-grover3 The Warriors (1979), Walter Hill is the story of a gang in New York falsely accused in an assassination who must make their way back to their home base on Coney Island. The Warriors, while not a masterpiece in the realm of writing or acting still makes for an enjoyable watch both due to its high-stakes pacing and gritty atmosphere. I was consistently interested in what would happen to the gang of protagonists throughout the film and the movie keep you engaged from beginning to end with not much in the way of down time. The atmosphere created by the film's mise-en-scene is also excellently done, and the rival gangs that the Warrior must face and overcome or outrun were all entertaining for both their design and nuances. The Warriors is a great film if your looking for something entertaining without all that pesky depth getting in the way. Not too long and easy to watch, a lot of fun.
elshikh4 So when you watch a movie, what do you expect ? Maybe some fun, or some thing to think about, or both. The trouble with The Warriors is that it has none of the above, AND an army of lovers as well ! While everybody says that it's a great movie, they always forget to tell why. And when I watched it, I didn't find it great at all, yet for endless reasons..It has a very thin, fragile, rather nonexistent plot. So someone framed some ones, therefore they're chased by other some ones. In other movies, that could make an action, comedy, kids cartoon, or art house movie. But here, it isn't this or that. It's a desert, full of air, with horrifying silence ! Why The Warriors are framed ? The movie's ghost of a script answers proudly through the framer himself : "No reason. I just like doing things like that !". Smart motive ? Nope. It's stupid laziness !Then, who's the movie's "evil guy" ? OK, he was some guy, who looks confident, and does nothing but listening to the news flash every now and then. For me, he was useful only for a good laugh; especially when he shows up wearing sunglasses at night, and in doors !So what about the conflict ? Well, it's a loop; where the leads meet one gang, fight them, and then escape, one time after another. What may change is merely the gang's name, costume, and gender. I believe that in the lowest movies, video games, or comics, there must be a kind of aggravation; where the conflict's steps get harder, and the fights get hotter, leading to a big climax. This time, FORGET IT UTTERLY. Nobody cared of doing anything like this. Insignificance was the name of the game, and they played it devotedly !What about the characterization ? Nihility my friend. The Warriors' leader is the leader for what exactly ?! I don't know, and the movie itself doesn't know. There is some rival for him, who's here to call everybody "Faggot!!", and doesn't do a thing else, not even being a "rival" in anyway. The leads are 8 copies of blank original that has no back story, no clear marks, and sometimes no dialog !I'm clueless how that movie was criticized for its violence at the time ?! Enough to say that it's an action that has no action in the first place. Any Tom & Jerry short had tons of action compared to this sterility !The details are strange for strangeness. I mean an empty city that has only gangs ?!! So where are the people that these gangs robe ?? Moreover, subway that has no tickets, and no passengers. Police forces, and thugs, that have no guns. And a movie that has no mind !And after years and years of releasing it cinematically, the movie's makers remembered noting on the DVD edition that it takes place in the future. But what did happen in that future to make New York a deserted city, that has thousands of criminals, 1 newsstand, and so vigilant vice squad ?!! 2 years later, John Carpenter would fix it up, and do it more correct, in Escape from New York (1981), by turning the whole city into a huge and crowded prison. See, nice things happen when you use your head a little !Does it have a satire ? YEAH. In one moment, a group of well-dressed boys and girls, coming out of a prom maybe, run into the dusty leads in the subway. Ahh, the war of classes, the social irony, and the eloquent visual commentary ! To tell you the truth, I'm bluffing. Because in terms of intellectual depth, seriousness, or any point of view; our dear movie is between mute and naive !So what's here to enjoy, or to watch ?? I'll tell you : Deborah Van Valkenburgh's beauty, Andrew Laszlo's cinematography, the special atmosphere, the different gangs' designing, the songs, the no cheap dealing; by avoiding immersing us in sex, drugs, and cursing (a la today's movies !), and the pure ambition of remaking Xenophon's Anabasis in some modern time.It's pathetic that director Walter Hill tried to make a meaning out of this joke on his 2005 Director's Cut DVD edition, when he added an opening prologue to link the movie to Anabasis, and to assure that we're about to watch "A story of courage". It takes a lot of carriage indeed to make a movie that bad, and that vapid, then dare to connect it with something surely million times better and richer ! I really can't understand how The Warriors is called a masterpiece, a cult classic, a great movie ? Actually these allegations are great crap themselves. Because this is the worst remake of The Fugitive I have ever seen, one of the emptiest movies in history, and an extremely overrated dud. It may have any meaning though in the context of America in the 1970s. However, I'm not an American, and I didn't watch it in the 1970s. Congratulations for its 70s-American-fans exclusive group then. I just hope that someday, one of them tells us a reason for this movie's greatness. Otherwise they're talking about another movie, with the same title, that I didn't watch yet !Finally a question : How at one point the leads managed to outrun a speeding bus.. on their feet ??!!