Jancey Chi

As someone from East New York, apartments don’t really look like that. I don’t understand why they kept showing almost every apartment as run-down and ready to be turned into rubble, but that’s not how it really is, which diluted the immersion for me as a New Yorker. I’ve heard the movie was based on a book from the ’80s, and during that time, I’d believe it, but the movie seems to take place in recent times, so I don’t get that decision. Other than that, the sequence of scenes felt sloppy and a little random. I can’t speak on the experience of an FDNY EMT, but a dead body in the locker? Really? I understand hazing happens in the FDNY from stories I’ve heard, but that seems like a stretch. Give it a watch if you don’t mind some tacky clichés, since the acting by Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan is well done