Streets of Fire (1984)

A Classic Cult Movie !!!!
I watched this movie when it first came out countless times and I recently came across it again and just had to buy it !!!! A classic rock and roll fantasy !!!!!, Just wished the guy got the girl in the end, but we all know that they so love each other !!!!!!

TRULY AMAZING!!!
It's amazing what people can like! And so many! This movie's a joke, but if you thought 'The Warriors' was cool, you'll probably find this one great as well. Rick Moranis, who usually plays cheeseball comic roles, was perfect for this cheeseball flick - in fact, being the wimp, he was about the only one I could take seriously in this dingbat flick full of 50's tough guys and 80's cheese. What a shallow pointless plot! OK, I should stop pretending this movie ever made pretences of being serious. It must be a reminiscence thing.. or maybe it's the laugh factor.. or the jaded Dick Tracy one-liners.. or the Villiage People looking cops and bikers.. or William Dafoe.. Hey, now that I think about it, this movie really was good! NOT!

Not very thrilling, but a unique sequel to "The Warriors"...
...so much that you can even see the editing FX that Hill used in this film in the new gussied-up DVD of The Warriors. The idea behind Streets of Fire is hypnotic: an alternate midwestern American reality where Rock and Roll reigns supreme and Elia Kazan melodrama has been kicked into the 1980s. Hence, it's a none-too-subtle Rock N' Roll fable.

At it's best, SOF does in fact a certain lyrical quality and live up to its premise. Unfortunately, it is a very uneven film and the early-80s cheese factor is in full force. Rick Moranis is painfully bad in his role, and Michael Pare has about as much charisma as a day-old roast beef sandwich. But Amy Madigan steals the show with her magnetic performance, and Diane Lane is a wonderful actress. Willem Dafoe doesn't have much to do but he couldn't look more the part.

The story is pretty mediocre, the tension oftentimes nil, but SOF has to be given credit for having no other comparable film, except maybe Hill's previous masterpiece The Warriors.