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22 out of 26 people found the following comment useful :- Has Potential, but Is Very Confused, 11 July 2009 Author: Claudio Carvalho from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
In New Orleans after the Katrina, the partner of Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) is found dead and he teams up with Stan Green (50 Cent) that becomes his new partner. During the investigations, am undercover DEA agent is murdered by two dirty police officers, and the psychologist Nina Ferraro (Sharon Stone) has successive interviews with Andy, Stan and the two detectives. Meanwhile, the FBI also investigate the corruption in the police force leaded by Agent Brown (Michael Biehn)."Streets of Blood" is a police story that has potential, but fails since it is very confused. The theme of corruption in the police is also interesting, but the messy screenplay of this movie ruins the story. The camera and the cinematography are poor and the edition of the DVD is awful with a terrible framing. Sharon Stone is unrecognizable. My vote is five.Title (Brazil): "Ruas de Sangue" ("Streets of Blood")
15 out of 17 people found the following comment useful :- This flick can't quite deliver..., 3 July 2009 Author: derirre357 from Germany
I saw this movie because I was interested in the plot and the cast. The "dirty cops" premise is lately becoming an exploitation, to mind come "Training day", "Dark blue", "Narc", and "Dirty". Unfortunately all these are far superior than this mess. The cinematography is nothing special, sometimes OK, sometimes awful. The story is quasi-complicated and fails to bring any tension whatsoever. The acting is not bad, but nothing special either. Val Kilmer, Sharon Stone and Barry Shabaka Hennley have little to work with. Biehn is pretty enjoyable. To me the biggest surprise was 50 cent - he wouldn't win any award for his acting here, but let's be honest, if I didn't knew he wasn't an actor but a gangsta-rapper I would have never guessed it. His character is supposed to be torn apart between right and wrong, but we don't really feel for him or never do we really see his inner struggle. This is however due to bad writing and is not Jackson's fault. He is not worse than any of the other actors in the movie, this could be due to the thin story, but still he does OK, no complaints here. Of course to all who know something about 50 cent, fans or haters, it is hilarious to hysterical to watch him run around dressed as a patrol cop. The dialogue is average. Now the action on the other hand, if not on par with films as "Heat", "Ronin", or even Michael Bay's flicks is actually quite well executed. The viewer is never confused who is shooting at whom and why, no guns firing 100000000 bullets without reloading either. The ending doesn't make much sense. The editing is good, no MTV-style quick cuts. Overall it is just a movie to kill some time with, but don't expect anything above average. If You are interested in the cast feel free to watch it.
7 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :- A total piece of crap - can't believe this thing gets made today, 3 September 2009 Author: mastershaman from United States
I think this piece of crap pretty much ranks down there as the worst film in the history of cinema. Can't believe they had Sharon Stone and Val Kilmer participate in this for a paycheck. I guess they needed the money. Val Kilmer acting opposite a gangster rapper now there's a washed up actor! The so-called "director" is worse than a 1st yr NYU student at film-making. How do these people get the financing and get to "direct" movies just blows my mind... It's shot with this totally wanking documentary style which looks cheap and I find really distracting. Millennium Films sucks gas.
7 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- Val Kilmer & Curtis Jackson?? Jim Morrison & 50 Cent??, 5 July 2009 Author: benjcrockett-1 from United States
Yet another film made bad by horrible casting choices. Seriously, how can you expect to sellout movie theaters casting Val Kilmer and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as your lead roles? To be honest, when I first heard of about this film I was surprisingly excited to see it. I've always liked Val Kilmer and thought this could actually be good. But of course the excitement didn't last long. This film is full of drawn out suspense, horrible acting splashed with horrible Louisiana accents and my favorite part of any film which is getting lost in the story. That said the 6 stars I gave for this film are strictly on the basis of its suspense aspect and any director having the kahunas to put 50 cent in their film should get just a little credit.
6 out of 9 people found the following comment useful :- average, 1 July 2009 Author: mark-ronan from Ireland
I wasn't excited about seeing this film at all,especially since they cast 50 cent who cannot act at all it was the same in righteous kill i couldn't take him seriously as an actor even though i did like get rich or die trying.I would say this was a low budget production it certainly looked like it from what i saw because the camera work was terrible and the director is virtually unknown,i probably would have turned it off if val kilmer wasn't in it cause he can be good,and for Sharon stone i think her career in top Hollywood productions are over.To end my summary it just seemed like a extended episode of some crime series show but what can u expect from a straight to DVD movie.I give this 4 out of 10 stars.
1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful :- Worst movie of all time, 7 September 2009 Author: danielmgoudreau from United States
This was the worst movie I have ever seen in 45 years. It didn't even have a hero or antihero to root for. Every character in the movie is corrupt. The script, direction, acting, everything bad, bad, bad. You may want to buy a 10 foot pole to keep this one away and I am a Val Kilmer fan!!! Maybe this movie was written by corrupt cops for corrupt cops. Did this movie get made for 150,000 dollars and go straight to DVD? It wasn't even worth being made. I would be very surprised if anyone who saw this enjoyed it and wanted to buy the DVD or watch it again, not counting Sharon Stone's mother or Val Kilmer's sister. If you love film, stay away. If you love Val Kilmer, stay away. If you love Sharon Stone, stay away. If you love Michael Beihn stay away. If you love Steven Segall movies you will enjoy this movie very much. LOL.
2 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :- Just okay., 27 September 2009 Author: Everyday-Struggler from E-Town
First off, the thing about it taking place in New Orleans after Katrina has very little to do with the actual story of the movie, so people interested in seeing a movie digging deep into how people live there now should look elsewhere.I was a little surprised after checking up the directors resumé and seeing that he directed SHACKLES, because that was a way better movie than this one which at times felt a little amateurish.50 Cent actually impressed me with his performance in the underrated GET RICH OR DIE Trying' where he played a version of himself, here though he's only half as good where he plays a cop.Val Kilmer plays his partner, and I've never realized why Kilmer is a household-name, I mean besides SALTON SEA I've always found him to be stiff as a tree and this movie is no different.They obviously have watched THE SHIELD a lot and gotten inspired from that, but while THE SHIELD has well-written characters that are well-played this movie kind of doesn't.KILMER and 50 CENT's chemistry is pretty crucial for this movie to work, and it's to bad that they don't deliver in that aspect because the script is fairly decent, I'd put the blame on KILMER at least 50 CENT tries to show emotions half of the time KILMER is barely mumbling, making it hard to understand him at times.The visual look is kind of weird, it's like they didn't chose how the movie was gonna look like before they shot it, some scenes are hand-held with a shaky camera while some hare stationed, it kind of interrupts the flow of the movie.Also the plot is sometimes a little incoherent, but me being a fan of the genre being cops working outside of the law found it to be watchable.At the end of the day it's just an okay movie, but there are many better ones in the same genre such as TRAINING DAY (Denzel), DIRTY (Cuba Gooding Jr), DARK BLUE (Kurt Russel) and EDISON (LL Cool J).
9 out of 17 people found the following comment useful :- Did the Job for a great movie night!, 2 July 2009 Author: PessA Baltahszor (pessa666) from Amsterdam
"Guy's like Andy and me, were all that stands between people like you and the end of the motherfucking world" strong movie, good ending!Didn't even know this was half a rapper flick but it did the job for a great movie night.the movie delivers a nice break in the action with the moments before the action starts again, not really for kids though. I would say for the swearing and nudity, it was acceptable for the feel of realism in the movie.the movie shows real footage of the new Orleans disaster and gets you hooked from the start!i would definitely recommend this movie to all the rapper fans and all the people who normally hate the rapper scene because this movie will prove that it is possible to keep the story line on top and the rap second that by the way makes up for some good soundtracks............................enjoy the movie!
terrible movie, 23 August 2009 Author: ron paulstein from United States
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First, being from the south, I hate it when actors try to have a southern accent. The whole movie felt like a low budget film. Now I think it was to be released as a major movie but got leaked to the internet. I have always liked Val Kilmer and he was o.k. not his best acting by far, and Sharon Stone looked good for her age. curtis jackson is terrible. He cannot act, I could barely understand a word he was saying, did he get his teeth capped? I'm glad the movie got leaked to the net. I would have been upset if I had paid 8.00 bucks to see this movie, right now i'm out 4.00 and two hours of my time. Don't waste your time seeing this movie and please directors, next time you are casting a movie; don't cast a thug with no acting ability.
Worth a look on cable, 16 August 2009 Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York
Val Kilmer plays a cop who in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, discovers his partner dead. It transpires that he may have been murdered. Hooking up with a new partner (Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, who has turned into a solid actor) he begins a decent into to a criminal underworld with ties to the New Orleans police. Good, little action film is the sort of thing to fill a slow weekend afternoon. The action is good, the performances serviceable and the plot interesting enough to hold your interest. Certainly the opening sequences that take place in the flooded city grabbed me enough that I wanted to see where the rest of the film went. Is it something you'd want to buy on DVD or pay for a rental? probably not, but as something to catch on cable (where I'm guessing it will find a home on SPIKE of FX) its worth your time, if not a bowl of popcorn.
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