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Street Warrior
Score: 83%
Rating: R
Publisher: Genius Products
Region: 1
Media: DVD/1
Running Time: 88 Mins.
Genre: Action/Martial Arts
Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1

As I'm sure you might have noticed, I've reviewed quite a few "extreme" movies lately. A lot of them have been from Genius Entertainment. Street Warrior is the latest of their releases. Street Warrior starts off with a whole bunch of guys beating the crap out of each other, women dancing naked, and heavy metal music playing. That's all just to get you through the opening credits. After that, we start out in the middle of the action at an underground fight club. If you ask me, it's a completely unfair fight to begin with. This guy Joey (Brandon Quinn) is maybe 1/3rd of the size of his opponent, Isaiah Griffin (Sidney S. Liufau). But then sometimes the little guys will surprise you. Here though, Joey gets the crap beat out of him, so badly that he ends up in a coma.

After that's over, we're taken to Fort Leavenworth Prison, a military prison. The man who is being paroled, Jack Campbell (Max Martini), is Joey's brother. The minute Jack gets back to town, trouble seems to follow him everywhere. He ends up in fight after fight. When his sister-in-law Sarah (Erin Cottrell) tells Jack what happened to Joey, fighting is what Jack wants. Jack vows to avenge his brother by taking down the man who put him in a coma.

He starts off by visiting Georgie (Max Perlich) at the strip club. Georgie tells him of the fight club. Luckily for Jack, it's going to be very easy for him to get in. Once the club owner, Mr. Pope (Nick Chinlund), sees a video of him fighting, Pope is determined Jack is going to fight for him no matter what. From here on out, Jack has to decide who he can trust and who the real bad guy is in this sordid tale. Pope is obviously just out for money. His slogan for the club is "Let's see some blood." Then there's Isaiah who is pumped full of a mystery drug injected with not one but two syringes before each fight.

Overall, I was more impressed with Street Warrior than I thought I would be. There is a decent plot with a few surprises. The acting was all very well done. While there is more to the movie than fighting, the fighting was impressive. It never looked fake or overdone. My personal favorite one was between Jack and The Showman (Roland Kickinger), even though it was the shortest by far.

If you like fight movies, I recommend you check out Street Warrior today. While it's not the greatest fighting movie I've ever seen, it is well done and entertaining. What more could you want?



-Cyn, GameVortex Communications
AKA Sara Earl
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