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	Colors Sean Penn, Robert Duvall MGM (Video & DVD), 2001 average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

McGavin (the Penn character) is the classic hard-charging rookie cop, trying to save the world his first day out on the beat. Hodges (the Duvall character) is the maybe not-so classic seasoned veteran cop who takes his job one incident at a time.

The main theme can be summed up in the exchange between McGavin and Hodges at the food stand while they're having coffee break. Hodges is using a story to try to get his point across to McGavin...P>A secondary theme is the conflict between the McGavin and Hodges and their fundamental differences in outlook. Hodges outlook is (paraphrased, since I don't remember it exactly), "It's like having two heads. One says red, the other's sure to say green... after a while you don't point fingers and lay blame. You see what it is and just leave it."

I thought Duvall was superb in this film, even though as a teen I first got it to see Sean Penn. ;-) I think the desperation of gang life is portrayed well, I dont' know how accurate it is, but the point was made with me.

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COLORS IS COLORFUL

THE BEST THING THIS FILM HAS GOING FOR IT IS THE FACT THAT IT STARS ROBERT DUVALL. DUVALL MAY BE THE BEST ACTOR WORKING TODAY.
HE DESRVES STATUS WITH DENIRO AND PACINO WHO ARE OF EQUIVALANT TALENT.
AND, SEAN PENN DOES A REASONABLE JOB OF PLAYING THE PUMPED UP AGRESSIVE NEW TO THE CRASH UNIT GO GETTER.
THE MOVIE'S DIRECTOR VETERAN ACTOR AND ALL AROUND 'DIFFERENT' HUMAN DENNIS HOPPER DOES A DECENT JOB OF PORTRAYING THE INNER CITY GANG CULTURE IN ALL OF ITS DEGRADED GLORY.
BUT THE FOCUS IS ON THE TWO COPS WHO WORK TOGETHER BUT ARE WORLDS APART.
DUVALL IS 'HODGES' THE SLIGHTLY WORN OUT 'BEEN THERE, DONE THAT' VETERAN WHO JUST WANTS TO WADE THROUGH THE DAY AND GO HOME ALIVE.
OF COURSE PENNS 'PACKMAN' AS THE HOODLUMS LABEL HIM IS JUST THE OPPOSITE. THESE TWO PLAY WELL OFF OF EACH OTHER AS THEIR AGENDAS,PHILOSOPHIES AND METHODS CLASH.
THEY ARE ASSIGNED TO ASSIST ON A DRIVE BY MURDER AND WORK DILIGENTLY TO SOLVE IT.

THIS IS CONTEMPORARY 'ADAM-12' EXCEPT IT IS PAINTED IN THE REAL 'COP' WORLD OF DEATH, DESPAIR, PROFANITY AND VIOLENCE.

THE FILM SEEMS TO STRAY OCCASIONALLY AND THERE ARE SCENES THAT JUST DONT JIVE WITH THE MISSION OF THE MOVIE BUT OVERALL IT IS A GOOD FILM. DUVALLS PERFORMANCE IS WORTH WATCHING THIS FLICK FOR.

OVERALL 'COLORS' IS A COLORFUL FILM.

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P-p-p-Penn makes his case (horizontally)

Seeing this with the lads, we'd always get the giggles during Sean Penn's inexplicably interminable love scene. C-c-c-can't stop laughing at his ego. He won't stop bonking 'till all bonks ends. C-c-colors, colors, he's seeing colours.
Sterling work from Messrs Penn and Duvall is thankfully not entirely undermined by some exploitative chase scenes.


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