is apparently supposed to do for East Los Angeles Chicanos what the Godfather movies did for New York mafiosi…" Roger Ebert wrote "The East Los Angeles milieu and some of the characters seem familiar, because some of the same ground was covered by American Me... Bound by Honor covers similar material in a less passionate and finally less meaningful way." He gave the film 2 stars out of 4. Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly gave Bound By Honor a B−, falling on the high end of the film spectrum. He states "Bound By Honor comes fully alive when it moves behind bars. There's an exploitative thrill built into the genre…" Gleiberman was more interested in the second half of the film once Miklo was in jail running La Onda. Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote "The film is big and long, passionate and flat. It's full of heroic and tragic incident, but skimpy about the details of quotidian lives." Canby exalts some of the characters in the film one in particular, Enrique Castillo. Although Vincent Canby does not give an official rating for the film, he concludes "Though it's not the epic it means to be, it is not a failure." See also South Central List of hood films References External links 1990s English-language films 1993 crime drama films 1993 crime thriller films 1993 films American prison drama films Films about drugs Films directed by Taylor Hackford Films scored by Bill Conti Films set in Los Angeles Films set in San Quentin State Prison Films set in the 1970s Films set in the 1980s Films shot in San Quentin, California Films with screenplays by Floyd Mutrux Hispanic and Latino American drama films Hollywood Pictures films Hood films Films about Mexican Americans Spanish-language American films 1990s American films