The black gang was actually too Good looking to be believable...

Most people who watch this movie may get the living daylights scared out of them while watching the scene were the black gang confronts Kevin Kline, and then later Danny Glover, and while there is certainly an element of terror there,....to me there was something always a bit phony about this scene. And then it hit me....these dudes are just way too good looking to be a believable L.A. street gang. To many people they may just seem like scary black guys, but if you really look at them, they seem like well kept black men that are just dressed on the thuggish side and wearing an attitude. I work in a hospital in the hood and I see real black gangbangers come through the ER frequently....the real ones are ugly as hell and truly terrifying to look at. The guys in this movie look like Hollywood models in comparison, and some of them probably were models that just took a temporary gig playing thugs.