We Die Young (2019) (original) (raw)
The story takes place in the slums of Washington DC, a world ruled by violent gangs and ruthless drug dealers. We get to see what happens to the characters over the course of 24 hours. Lucas, a 14-year-old Hispanic boy, inducted since age 10 into the brutal gang life of a San Salvadorean neighborhood in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother Miguel won't follow the same path. When Daniel (an Afghanistan war veteran) comes into the neighborhood looking for drugs to escape his own reality, an unusual opportunity arises that can change their lives forever. With the help of ...(more)
The story takes place in the slums of Washington DC, a world ruled by violent gangs and ruthless drug dealers. We get to see what happens to the characters over the course of 24 hours. Lucas, a 14-year-old Hispanic boy, inducted since age 10 into the brutal gang life of a San Salvadorean neighborhood in Washington D.C., is determined that his 10-year-old brother Miguel won't follow the same path. When Daniel (an Afghanistan war veteran) comes into the neighborhood looking for drugs to escape his own reality, an unusual opportunity arises that can change their lives forever. With the help of Daniel, Lucas tries to flee his gang-lord mentor, Rincon. (less)
Director: Lior Geller
Writer: Lior Geller
Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Joseph Long, Joana Metrass, David Casta�eda, Gary Beadle, Elijah Rodriguez
Composer: Erez Koskas
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Review by Brian Orndorf, March 6, 2019
7 / 10
He�s battled robots, M. Bison, Dolph Lundgren (multiple times), and he almost, in the mid-90s, went head-to-head with the abominable snowman. And now Jean-Claude Van Damme is going after the MS-13 gang. It�s a sobering change of pace for the action star, as �We Die Young� intends to be a grittier endeavor, with a streetwise sense of horror from writer/director Lior Geller. Van Damme isn�t the traditional hero here, but a broken man barely clinging to life, inspired to stand between the street gangs that control America�s capital and the young lives threatened by violence. �We Die Young� isn�t ...read more...
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