King Of Bourbon Street [Remastered] - Al Hirt

Who is the Street King in all of this?

Advantages: Great cop thriller
Disadvantages: Some strange, unanswered questions and unclosed plot lines

star cast come together for Street Kings, a fast paced thriller involving the elements of police corruption and another dark role for Reeves. As the actor gets older, he seems more at home in this format, and I was thoroughly impressed by his portrayal of a hard-nosed cop with a mean streak and a slightly corrupt nature here on the streets of LA. The film opens with Reeves' character, Tom Ludlow, on the hunt to find a pair of missing girls. We are soon shown the no nonsense style of his policing as he takes out the villains without prior warning, thus breaking the code for a cop. Then along comes Ludlow's unit, checking the scene and working out stories to make them all heroes as opposed to corrupt cops. Bear in mind that, at this point, we don't really know what is going on and director David Ayer, behind camera for only his second film ...

pmcds 16.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Street Kings

Kings of the Street, if not of the Screen

Advantages: An action packed ending
Disadvantages: Unevenly paced

of thing that "Hot Fuzz" took the mickey out of so well. Indeed, at some points it seemed that what the characters were saying was largely secondary, especially as you later realised you couldn't believe a word of it anyway. You won't come out of the cinema quoting lines from the film like you sometimes can, but in a film like this, that could be considered an advantage, as there are a couple of sequences at least that you won't forget. The idea seems to have been to make the film more a feast for the eyes than for the ears and it was that. Film soundtracks are something I don't tend to notice too much unless they are particularly good or especially bad and the "Street Kings" one largely passed me by. There were some moments where it pricked the edge of my consciousness, but once the film really kicked into gear there was so much ...

Soho_Black 27.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Street Kings (DVD)

Street Survivors for the music

Advantages: Great material. That Smell
Disadvantages: Deaths three days later

I doubt Few album releases in History have ever been like the release for Lynyrd Skynyrd's fifth album Street Survivors. The reason is just three days after the release the band were involved in a Plane crash that killed the following Ronnie Van Zant, New guitarist Steve Gaines and his sister Cassie Gaines as well as the pilot, co pilot and the bands assistant road manager. Guitarist Gary Rossington's injuries were so severe that he had steel rods fitted in his right arm and leg. He suffered broken bones to both arms, both legs, both wrists, both ankles and his pelvis, **Street Survivors** The original cover you see with the review was replaced out of respect for the deceased members of the band due to the flames around the band in the picture. This album was the first and only Lynyrd Skynyrd album that Steve Gaines featured on after ...

jcneil 18.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Street Survivors [Remastered] - Lynyrd Skynyrd