Friday 7 March 2014

Streets of Fire
Dir: Walter Hill
1984
**
Streets of Fire is quite a big production for a film with no real story. It's a 50% split between 80's Cheese and forced corniness. It is obviously a work of passion, the neon of the 80's reflecting in the style of the 50's, the elevated subway enclosing this small and seedy world of gangs and dancers. Visually it's great, it's very of its time and there isn't anything out there like it. The cast is odd, Rick Moranis is an angry pop promoter, Diane Lane is Ellen Aim - a kidnapped singer who bursts into song at every given moment, Willem Dafoe is an angry biker who looks like a vampire, the band 'The Sorels' is a whose who of 'that guy who was in that film in the 80's' and it's got Tommy from the Rugrats in it as a groupie called baby Doll. Bill Paxton plays the same character her always plays. Ten out of Ten for 80's bizarreness but this is to be loved only by cult followers, everyone else will feel disappointed (possibly with a headache).

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