DanielGilligan 2 Posted January 24, 2016 Miami Vice meets 21 Jump Street meets... Rambo!?!? Â So the answer to how this got made is probably: "because the 80s" but nothing brings together so many things wrong with that decade into 90 minutes as this movie. Â The plot summary does an admirable job of making sense of this mess: "From the creators of Miami Vice comes this action-packed film about five punks who are whipped into shape by a Vietnam vet through a new get-tough juvenile delinquency program. They take the program a step further by forming a vigilante squad to take down the city's top dope dealers." <------That is an accurate description of the plot this movie. Â Produced by Michael Mann at the height of the success of Miami Vice - the man could do no wrong creatively - or at least that's what the folks who greenlit this thought. Â Early appearances by Laurence (then Larry) Fishburne, a young James Remar (this is the film he did after leaving Aliens), Stephen Lang, and Lauren Holly in one of her first roles. Â This movie has everything worthy of a great HDTGM episode, just check out the clothes in this clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaI0Fzqj3Bc 1 Share this post Link to post
SlidePocket 707 Posted January 24, 2016 It's also directed by the man who brought Kazaam and The Running Man himself, Paul Michael Glaser! 2 Share this post Link to post
DanielGilligan 2 Posted January 29, 2016 Maybe they should just do all of Starsky's movies 1 Share this post Link to post
Veronica_Sawyer 23 Posted August 4, 2017 Bumping this because someone watched this and thought "yeah I'm going to create a company like this and make money" and that I believe is how Scared Straight was born. Â Also, you get a super young Lauren Holly and a mega creepy cocaine sniffing James Remar who's also into voodoo of something? Â Not to mention basically thinking you can take teenage delinquents, put them in the swamp, hope they live...and then they turn out to be the one thing to save the mean streets of Miami from the drug cartels. Yup...when Nancy Regan fails look to the Band of the Hand. Â I really do think this could be a double-feature with the Legend of Billie Jean. Share this post Link to post
