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Waters Rising is a Docu-Drama film set in and around Hurricane Katrina and the effect it had on peoples lives there...particularly the inner city urban community...
I was actually looking for a good ole mob movie, they had none, so I just randomnly picked this movie up. On the surface, I just thought it would be another shoot em up 'black-exploitation' film (a term derived in the 1970's with such movies as 'Shaft')
But it turned out to be much different, at least to me, and it revealed a lot about what most knew was already going on there. This film, based on true events, just happens to hone in on two brothers, and their family.
It immediatly sets a gritty tone by showing real live footage of corpses floating on the flood waters...as one of the characters is narrating it...(kinda like they did in Casino, voice over)
It basically showed how although the flood destroyed a lot of lives (1800) it also saved many more, by breaking up notorious street crime organizations...and by breaking up generational lifestyle habits that were sure to continue on, if not for the flood displacing people and forcing people to start anew, and to reflect on how they lived before.
I enjoyed the film, it had a redeming value to it all the way to the end.
It's not cheezy at all....but it does show you another side to life, and you realize not all kids are raised like the Brady bunch kids were, not even close...
The film doesn't attempt to 'justify' bad behavior, it just shows you the 'why'...
Rating it soley on the urban film scale, I give it a 5 out of 5....
rating it from from a all movies scale...I give it a 7 or 8, out of 10. It just touched me like that for some reason.
Again the movies titled 'Waters Rising'
I was actually looking for a good ole mob movie, they had none, so I just randomnly picked this movie up. On the surface, I just thought it would be another shoot em up 'black-exploitation' film (a term derived in the 1970's with such movies as 'Shaft')
But it turned out to be much different, at least to me, and it revealed a lot about what most knew was already going on there. This film, based on true events, just happens to hone in on two brothers, and their family.
It immediatly sets a gritty tone by showing real live footage of corpses floating on the flood waters...as one of the characters is narrating it...(kinda like they did in Casino, voice over)
It basically showed how although the flood destroyed a lot of lives (1800) it also saved many more, by breaking up notorious street crime organizations...and by breaking up generational lifestyle habits that were sure to continue on, if not for the flood displacing people and forcing people to start anew, and to reflect on how they lived before.
I enjoyed the film, it had a redeming value to it all the way to the end.
It's not cheezy at all....but it does show you another side to life, and you realize not all kids are raised like the Brady bunch kids were, not even close...
The film doesn't attempt to 'justify' bad behavior, it just shows you the 'why'...
Rating it soley on the urban film scale, I give it a 5 out of 5....
rating it from from a all movies scale...I give it a 7 or 8, out of 10. It just touched me like that for some reason.
Again the movies titled 'Waters Rising'