Review of East L.A. King

I personally liked this movie very much because it shows how we all pay a price for whatever we do in this lifetime. In this case the father pays the price of all the bad things he did in his younger years through his son who becomes just like him. I agree that it is not your typical violent gang movie, but that is exactly what I like about it, the fact that it explores the world of a person who is in a gang and later decides to straighten his life. It concentrates on how that person changes his life around first in prison and later in his life. Okay maybe not everyone who comes out of prison will become a better human being when they come out, but I think it was brilliant to put a Jesus like character in the same cell as the lead character. Technically speaking the film was okay, not Hollywood okay, for that it would have needed a bigger budget, but overall I thought it was okay. If you are after big special effects, this is not the film, but if you want to see a transforming movie, I recommend it!