No matter what impression the ads give, this isn't even remotely intended as an action film. It's a set piece. It's a ballet of stylized male violence.

The Warriors admits to failures of conception (occasional) and dialogue (frequent), but there is much of value in Hill's visual elaboration of the material.

There's a night-blooming, psychedelic shine to the whole baroque movie.

If Walter Hill's 1979 comic book-style turfwar thriller The Warriors received mixed reviews upon its initial release--Pauline Kael praised it and Roger Ebert panned it--time has made it iconic.