Streets of Fire

Name: Streets of Fire
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime
Released: June 1, 1984
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 59
Cast: Amy Madigan, Bill Paxton, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Diane Lane, Lee Ving

1984

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Cinema International Corporation (CIC) | Release Date: June 1, 1984 | PG

Starring: Amy Madigan, Bill Paxton, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Diane Lane, Lee Ving, Michael Paré, Richard Lawson, Rick Moranis, Rick Rossovich, Willem Dafoe

Summary: A mercenary is hired to rescue his ex-girlfriend, a singer who has been kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.

Director: Walter Hill

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Music

Rating: PG

Runtime: 93 min

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Jake Cole

Walter Hill’s 1984 film combines everything from seedy bars, street fights, motorcycles, beefy heavies, and tough dames in a smorgasbord of tawdry, moral-flouting clichés that distills decades of imagery that represents youth in cinema. Read full review

Adam Lowes

Streets of Fire is fairly devoid of anything resembling a cohesive plot or lacking even a shred of subtext. It exists purely as pop action cinema, sweeping you up with a fevered enthusiasm and an overpowering desire to entertain which proves incredibly difficult to resist. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

The message is that there is no message; if this isn't action cinema in its purest form, then it's pretty close. Read full review

Bill Cosford

What goes on in Streets of Fire is not quite stupid -- it's saved from that by the remarkable love for style of its director, Walter Hill -- but the film doesn't show an intelligence to match its style, either. [04 June 1984, p.C6]

Empire Kim Newman

Very of its time but enjoyable for all that. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Vallone's production design is a knockout--the film is weakly scripted and scored. Read full review

Gary Arnold

The disappointing thing about Streets of Fire is that it can't deliver on the promise of a tangy, sexy evening of stimulation. The failure is aggravated by the exorbitant scale of the production, which seems much too lavish for an atmosphere of B-movie squalor. [01 June 1984, p.B4]

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MATM

Mar 5, 2022

"Streets of Fire" is absolutely beautiful, and I love the way it embraces long musical performances, but there is something about this movie that just makes it unwatchable. None of the performances work for me, even though I have enjoyed all of these actors in other movies. I give it a D,"Streets of Fire" is absolutely beautiful, and I love the way it embraces long musical performances, but there is something about this movie that just makes it unwatchable. None of the performances work for me, even though I have enjoyed all of these actors in other movies. I give it a D, just don’t bother.… Expand

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