Once in a while one of those movies come around that really hits the spot. A movie that changes the way you view life. "Vatos" depicts the harsh reality of living the street life and trying to escape it. Unfortunately, there are people in your past who do not let you escape the past. This movie depicts that clearly as Gerardo (Gary Cruz) is trying to change his life, but that no good spyder is making him pay for something that happened in the past. One cannot help but to cheer for Gerardo in this movie as he tries to climb up the social ladder and to achieve his goals in life, which he explained to his father as being 1)having a family, 2)getting a job, and 3)working hard. Unfortunately he cannot follow in his fathers footsteps and clean grills for a living, so he has to get a job at his brothers law firm. Only problem is that a guy who he used to pick on as a youngster is now the man in charge. Instead of giving Gerardo a job as a lawyer or security or janitor, he hires him to work in the "mail room", where he must deliver "cocaine" as they constantly call it in the movie to other people. Gerardo does not know that he is delivering cocaine. After finding out the briefcase is cocaine, he decides to get his street mentality back into play, as he shoots a drug dealer, hits a guy with a metal pipe, and pulls a gun to someones head but doesn't shoot. However, things really turn sour when his father is killed in a drive-by by pinchee spyder and dodger. This, as you might imagine, is the last straw for Gerardo, as he makes hit his last motive in life to take out spyder, with the help of his lawyer brother turned gangster Jose. I won't tell you what happens next, but this is a must see movie. I give it an 8, because the movie was too short and there are religious inferences (keep lazarus coming back to life after dying in mind). As my co workers say, "Orale Los Vatos"
