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Killing Streets (1991)
3 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Plenty of "how did this movie ever get made" moments ensue., 17 giugno 2004
Author: (johnny_betts@hotmail.com)
Stephanie and I joined our friends, Mr. and Mrs. Shade, in a game of "let's test our threshold of pain" as we got together to watch the malodorous waste of celluloid known as "Killing Streets." As soon as Lorenzo Lamas appeared on screen with a HORRIBLY FAKE Southern accent we knew it was go time. "Whatchu doin' here, boyeee?" The moment he uttered his first line all four of us burst out in laughter. It was beautifully awful.
I must say this is one of the best "high school basketball coach travels to Lebanon to save his twin brother" movies I've ever seen. Oh wait, it's the only movie of that nature I've ever seen. Can you believe it?
I'm sorry to say that my plot description is completely accurate and not a figment of my imagination. This movie is all about originality! Honestly, how many other movies can you name that involve a high school basketball coach and his Lebanese cab driver taking on a huge armed-to-the-teeth terrorist group? What's that? You can't think of any? Yeah, that's what I thought.
I could go on and on about the aimless action, the stupid car chases, the implausibility of it all, the one-note "lead" actress whose function is to make out hot and heavy with the hero, but it'd be a waste of our time. I think a description of the end of the movie will sum up everything quite nicely:
One of the terrorists is holding a grenade in one hand and Paré twin #1 in the other. All of a sudden we hear the sound of a basketball being dribbled in slow motion. You read that right; there is actually an "action" movie out there that uses a dribbled basketball as a dramatic sound effect. Paré twin #1 then drops to the ground and Paré twin #2 blows away the terrorist. When Paré twin #1 asks Paré twin #2 how he knew which way he'd duck, Paré twin #2 (the basketball coach) responds with, "In basketball you always fake left and go right." Yeah.
THE GIST
If you're a masochist that, for some unknown reason, likes movies about high school coaches literally outsmarting a whole country full of Lebanese terrorists, then you might actually enjoy this movie. Otherwise, this is strictly for bad movie marks who want to get four or more friends together and create their own Mystery Science Theater episode.
The Kashmullah have him!, 18 gennaio 2008
Author: sol da Brooklyn NY USA
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
***SPOILERS*** Having this gut feeling that his twin brother, CIA undercover agent, Craig Brandt is in trouble and being held hostage in Beriut Lebanon Dayton Ohio high school basketball coach Chris Brandt, both twin brothers played by Michael Pare, travels there to rescue him.
Knowing that the odds are against him, even the US Embassy refuses to help, Chris goes solo and later recruits the both friendly and wise-cracking Lebanese taxi driver Gilad, Gabi Amrani, and US Emesssy secretary Sandara Ross, Jennifer Runyon, to assist him. It doesn't take long, with him killing one of the bad guys in a ferocious knife-fight, for Chris to track down his twin brother Craig and a number of US hostages in this hideout in downtown Beriut. Trying to be a Rambo Chris is a bit over-matched and sadly comes up short in the hero department.
As you would have expected Chris messes up royally in not only having his brother re-captured but those who are holding him and the US hostages, The Kashmullah,take them out of the city. The entire group of US hostages, including Craig Brandt, end up being held in the Kashmulla stronghold fortress of Bakarbadeh some 20 miles outside of Beriut. It's then when the US government get's involved in that Chris had made a mess of everything that they were trying to do, free the hostages and Craig Brant, with their top honcho in Beriut Charlie Wolff,Lonenzo Lamas, and his sidekick the grenade packing and rocket launching expert Harold, Michael Downs, going into action.
Overlong action film that just goes on and on with a number of totally unnecessary sub-plots that includes a ridicules kidnapping of Sandra Ross by non other then her contact in the Lebanese Secret Government Emile, Menahem Einy. There's also the head of the Kashmullah US educated Abdel, Alon Abutbul, who seems to be more interested in playing a silly cat and mouse game with both Chris and Craig Brandt then getting on to business and freeing 25 fellow Kasumullah members held in US and Israeli prisons.
The two really stand-out performances in the movie has to be the taxi driver Gilad who at least makes things interesting, compared to the brain-dead-like Chris & Craig Brandt, with his both wise-cracks and Steve McQueen and Gene Hackman-like action driving sequences and young and confused Kashmullah member Yahzi, Ishai Wureit. Yahzi in fact stole the acting honors in the movie with the most realistic and moving scenes in it.
Having his whole family massacred by the hated Phalangists in 1982 Yahzi was torn between leavening his war torn country of Lebonon for the USA where he wanted to start a new life. In the most telling sequence in the movie, besides the big shoot-out in the end, Abdel really gets to Yahzi in how the US mistreated both him and his family as well as his country Lebonon. This made the murderous Abdel & Co. for once seem human, to the audience watching the film, in explaining his hatred of the US and it's allies in what they did to his once peaceful industrious and neutral, of the violence in the Middle-East, nation. It's later that Abdel showed his true colors and feelings in what he really thought about the naive and impressionable Yahzi, as well as those Yahzi's who joined up with him, but by then it was a bit too late for Yahzi to realize that!
4 out of 8 people found the following comment useful :-
Lame-brained racist turkey with great eye-candy!, 17 aprile 2002
Author: David Atfield (bits@alphalink.com.au) da Canberra, Australia
What a dog this one is! Poorly staged action sequences, lousy acting, terrible dialogue - and it's racist to boot. A ridiculous simplification of the political turmoil in Lebanon in the 1980s, this film would also have us believe that one American high-school basketball coach can defeat a whole army of Lebanese terrorists!!! And we are also meant to believe that the US Government would recruit this same basketball coach (and his friendly Lebanese taxi driver!!!) in an operation to rescue American hostages - a four man operation against hundreds of armed-to-the-teeth terrorists. The resulting rescue scene is almost as funny as the opening scene of "The Naked Gun". This sort of nonsense certainly does nothing to help US relations with the Middle East - and, as this was an Israeli-American co-production, it does little to help Arab-Israeli relations either.
On the plus side there is some excellent male eye-candy. Lorenzo Lamas, an even worse actor than his father (if such a thing is possible), is pretty easy on the eye. But even better we have no less than two Michael Pares - he plays twin brothers, and neither brother seems to be too fond of wearing shirts! It's a shame that Pare ended up in this sort of z-grade rubbish, particularly after such a promising start in "Eddie and the Cruisers".
With the hunk factor so high, maybe you could watch "Killing Streets" with the sound turned down, put something sexy on the stereo, and simply admire the view!
1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful :-
The setting is Lebanon-The problem is terrorists!, 20 novembre 1999
Author: yatahaeshadai (yatahaeshadai@aol.com)
Michael Pare plays a dual role-Capt. Brandt who has been kidnapped by terrorists because he is getting to close to finding the hostages and twin brother Chris,a high school football coach who isn't buying the official story that his brother is dead. Lorenzo Lamas is the cold hearted state dept. official who wants Chris out of Lebanon. When he changes his silk suit for fatigues we begin to get a look at what is really happening. He intends to rescue the hostages but now he has two extra handicaps. Chris and a friendly cab driver who believes Lebanon can never be free til the Lebanese make a stand.He lets them go along for one reason. If anything goes wrong the US will claim Chris was on a private quest for vengeance.
2 out of 5 people found the following comment useful :-
Worst 150 Contender, 20 febbraio 2002
Author: fugu_286 da USA
I was surprised that there was only one comment on this film. This is definitely another example of an American-Israeli co-production which is completely offensive to anybody other than Americans or Israelis! Stereotypes abound, historical inaccuracy, blatant racism, jingoism galore, this movie is painful to watch. Other than that, it's your typical low budget action film. Worth a watch on late night cable.
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