Champion Reviews: Danny Trejo RULES! 2007-08-18 - This is a really interesting documentary about the life or Hollywood heavy Danny Trejo. If you are a fan of his work as one of the most recognizable villians in Hollywood today or not you will like this documentary. Danny is a true rags to riches 'American Dream' story. Danny was a real life villian and a real bad dude. He talks about growing up in a bad neighborhood and how his family influences took him down the wrong path that ended up with him doing drugs and serving hard time in a couple of real life hardcore prisons.
This documentary is full of great interviews with famous Hollywood actors that worked with Danny. Also the film crew takes him back to prison and to his very cell that he lived in for years. It is a powerful thing to see and it is a great documentary to watch.
turning your life around 2007-06-01 - Danny Trejo always stands out to me in films. This documentary shows that he has that commanding presence with other people too. It doesn't speak of films until the last fifth of the work. It speaks mostly about his former addictions, criminal acts, and time in prison. This would be a great work for ex-cons and little boys who act up to see. Mr. Trejo is a father and religious person and has many qualities that viewers will really respect.
Some people may get tired of seeing him talk and talk and talk. There are one or two blonde women doing the interviewing and I wonder if they used their looks to get him to film this work. I still don't know how it is that he has such perfect teeth. He never addresses his sexiness. He says nothing about working out in or out of prison. What I especially disliked is that race and class never get brought up. Yes, he chose to commit crimes, but I still wonder how the hardships facing a low-income Mexican American, especially in the past when Latinos did not have the numbers they now have, affected him. This work felt a bit cowardly in not connecting those dots. Language too: whether he spoke Spanish or whether his relatives did never comes up. What generation American he is never comes up. Whether he wants to help Latino youth specifically never comes up. This is so different from a Jim Brown or Edward James Olmos.
