'The Bronx War' (1989) – Joseph B. Vasquez.

An ambitious, street tough Puerto Rican Bar owner, and drug dealer Tito Sunshine (Joseph B. Vasquez)is fatefully drawn into an escalating conflict with vicious gangster Caesar (Andrew brown) for harbouring his girlfriend's sketchy sister Rachel (Charmaine Cruz). Multitalented writer/filmmaker/actor Joseph B. Vasquez's appreciably gritty, down-and-dirty slice of 80s ghetto menace is well worth a watch/rewatch. The lively performances, downbeat energy, shocking violence, electric atmosphere of impending doom, and blazing climax is excitingly orchestrated by Vasquez. A commendable work of low budget urban angst, The Bronx War explodes in a bloody squall of memorably meanspirited set-pieces.  A volatile, credibly stark tale of brutal retribution on the mean streets of the Bronx, Joseph B. Vasquez's intense Hispanic gangster shoot 'em up evokes a dark, grainy King of New York milieu.

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