Review of Go With God (2016) by Evanss B — 18 Jan 2016

It's urban poetry and experimental film in a dangerous neighborhood.

Artistic with imagination and pleasingly not what I expected. Strange using the terminology art house for a film labeled as a gangster movie, but I challenge that title. It's urban poetry and experimental film in a dangerous neighborhood. One can come to appreciate the film in its art house form. Ave Fenix Pictures used real people, real locations and relied on self-performances to tell stories of the barrio (a Latino ghetto). Well, the great experiment worked and it transcended into Hollywood receiving positive reception. Usually films like this start failing by day one of production or turn out half completed thus spinning into a short film that gets lost inside the shuffle of thousands. Somehow and someway the barrio made it last for ninety-five minutes and keeps you intrigued with the need to always be paying close attention.

My biggest compliment is the intelligence behind the script, if you don't pay attention you won't be able to connect the dots and understand why the world lays so heavily on Rory King's shoulders (writer and actor Zachary Laoutides). If you read some of the fun facts of the film that may have very well been the situation for him in the reality of creating the movie. The superlative storyline in Adios Vaya Con Dios has to do with Rory King and Gio Angeli (Joseph Mennella). The Italian aspect didn't scream cliché and could have been its own entire unconnected film. Rory, a fascinating blend of Irish and Mexican makes you accurately touch how it is to grow up in different worlds. He can genuinely blend into any scene, whether he's beating Italians with bats, playing politics with the Olmec Mexican thugs or debating his Irish father, actor Zachary Laoutides is agile enough to fit into any scenario he's placed inside.