‘Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo’: Film Review

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  • Author: Owen Gleiberman
  • July 09,2020

‘Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo’: Film Review When you look at the face of Danny Trejo, you see the creases and hollows and pockmarks, the eye pouches like saddlebags, the badges of a life so well-worn that, at first, that’s just about all you see. Yet the more you look, the more you notice a paradox. For someone who has been around more blocks than most of us will ever know, Trejo is actually, beneath the fugly weathering, kind of a sexy dude — and, off camera, a funny, self-deprecating, and gruffly gentle one, with one of those light-up-the-room grins. That’s the drama of Danny Trejo: On camera, his look of sullen morose menace suggests the forces, as heavy as an anvil, that are keeping him from smiling. When you look into that face, you want to know what those forces are.

“Inmate #1: The Rise of Danny Trejo” is a compelling and heartfelt documentary that fills all of that in.
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