Streets of Fire

Not as good as I was hoping.

I watched this movie because I had herd that the movie influenced the game Final Fight, but the only real influence I saw was from the fact that the two main characters are named Cody (Although in this movie Cody is the main characters’ last name)

No fighting happens in the movie that would suggest a connection to the beat em up, it’s just a series of dumb adventures wield together as hunky street though, Cody who just came back from the army (one of those situations in which he went to the army to avoid prison as suggested by his monologue with Richard Lawson who plays a cop who does not want any trouble in the film), is hired by a music manager played by Rick Moranis (Who gets to be a little tougher than he was as Luis in Ghostbusters) To rescue his client, a rock star who also is Cody’s ex-girlfriend (Played by a very young Diane Lane), from a gang terrorizing the city, whose leader is played by William Defoe (Who, now that I think about it, does look like a Final Fight villain.)

The film is a bit surrealistic, not taking place in the 1950s,, but having an art direction that mimics that style (similar to how Batman the animated series which takes place in modern times, but uses an art deco style to give it a 1940s feel). With that said, the art direction is really cool. I really loved the set Design and it works to make the city come alive and a very good use of space.

Surprisingly, the Rock and Roll music got tiring really quick. I think it was just too constant. one Rock and Roll song after another and they all are so similar. It does surprise me that I did not like it more, but I think it got to musical for me, maybe.

It’s a very experimental movie for the 80s especially, and I can give it an A for effort, but I went into this thinking this was the movie that influenced Final Fight and I did not see that so I did not like it that much.