Savage Roses

Although this movie is very raw (shot on DV) it's very funny, powerful and really draws you in. Basically a story about a female gang member from the Bronx that falls in love with a struggling young mother that is trying to survive her abusive relationship. Some great acting in this film as well! Really worth checking out if you can find it.

Locas 4 Life is very dynamic with its range of sometimes camp humor to serious deep moments. It makes me laugh, cry, get angry and smile. It is full of many real emotions and actions of rebellion and transformation, all of which draws the viewer into the reality of these everyday local thugs.

It is refreshing that this movie does not play into stereotypical gangs in which there is nothing but bloodshed and sex. It depicts a gang of young, impressionable women who have not yet crossed the lines of being strictly hardcore thugs. They still have an innocence about them. Some are trying to find purpose, knowing that eventually gang life will bring them only death. Some bring conflict and fight against any threat of change to the way things are. An abused woman helps to break the cycle. She brings change and new opportunities that even she could not foresee- a love affair with the leader of the gang. All of the women take serious risks challenging each other and the choices they have made, some times breaking the rules and gang loyalty. Locas 4 Life delivers a powerful message about life.

The actors did a great job portraying these women in the societal roles in which they ended up. The producers did a wonderful job with what they had to work with! Even though this movie had almost no budget, I still recommend it!

You want great acting? Watch anything by Robert DeNiro or Edward Norton. Stay far away from this.

After seeing this movie and coming to the conclusion that not ONE person, male or female, in this movie seems to have an ounce of acting skill in their entire bodies, I feel tricked into expecting some great acting by reviewers for this movie. They can't even make a beating look decent!

Misha Gonzalez needs to find a new profession, though I doubt she's making her living on this. The film is clearly on her shoulders and she buckles under the pressure. Her dialogue sounds like a "slow" child trying to read.

Maybe I'm directing my criticism to the wrong people. If I was the director, I would never let my name be attached to this trash. In fact, I would have had an entirely different cast.

This was bad even for a High School project. Can't say it much clearer than that. Zero of 10 if possible.

Needless to say, I sat through the entire movie, hoping for some kind of payoff in the end. It never came. I was bored before I got through the first 15 minutes. I actually feel ripped off for paying the $3 to see it I can't say enough at how bad the acting is. Not one person in this movie stood out as an actor or actress worth my time. Tania Galarza was supposed to be the lead female, or, well, the lead feminine female. The whole movie was pretty much cast as female. If a male showed up, he was a stereotyped male pig or a weak male which the girlie gangsters could easily rough up, and I use that term loosely. Anyhow, Tania was supposed to be the beautiful woman with whom the lead male, in this case Misha Gonzales, would fall for. Tania could not even convince me that she was just a normal girl. That's how bad her acting was. And don't get me started on the even worse Misha.

One last complaint... It seemed as this movie was made for some kind of a school project or something. I doubt anyone got paid and all the scenery shots were re-used over and over and over. I got tired of seeing the same train tracks with the same train rolling by at the exact same time. If there's one thing this movie lacked, it's professionalism. That's it for me. I've wasted enough time on this already.

My one line summary says it all. I agree with the reviewer who compares the acting to a porn movie. It's just horrible. No ifs, ands or buts about it, this movie could not be worse even if I had made it.

It went out of it's way to try to prove women are the stronger sex, physically and mentally. You won't find one positive male figure in this movie. Usually they're either a real jerk or a stereotype of some kind.

My recommendation to anyone who sees this movie sitting on a shelf somewhere is to AVOID AT ALL COSTS! You couldn't pay me to watch this bag of monkey crap again! I'm surprised I got through it all the first time.