American Streetfighter

The DVD box displayed such phrases as "There are some streets you don't double-cross" and "When war comes home, and home is the streets, you turn to... American STREETFIGHTER". Say that in the movie-trailer voice, and it will sound awesome. I was hoping that this would an overblown action movie, not good, but entertaining enough that I could laugh at how stupid it was. No luck.

The movie is... mediocre. The story is mediocre, the fight scenes are mediocre, the acting is mediocre. Okay, it picks up a little during a fight at the dojo, which is enjoyably stupid- featuring a motorcycle driving through a door that is quite obviously made of styrofoam, and the one guy in the movie with a gun choosing to pistol-whip people instead of, I dunno, shooting bullets at them. Still, the whole experience is mediocre- It's not bad enough to laugh at, and it's not good enough to enjoy. The whole thing is just boring. Two years later, Street Fighter, starring Van Damme and Raul Julia came out. At least that one you can laugh at.

And for a movie about street-fighting, there sure is a lot of time spent in the countryside...

Successful businessman Jake Tanner (Gary Daniels) returns home after 10 years to help his troubled brother Randy (Ian Jacklin) who is dangerously involved in illegal fights. American Streetfighter is another DTV banger from burly Blue-eyed Brit Gary Daniels. A shark in the office, Jake throws down equally hard in the ring, bust's up head's on the streets like a boss, Jake Tanner's an expert all-terrain hard ass! If the gaudy sight of a VHS cover emblazoned with an oily-looking muscle mountain on the cover puts a man-sized twizzle in your pizzle American Streetfighter's for you, dude! While the dialogue is excruciatingly awful at times, and some of the lumpy fight scenes are poorly blocked, I still got a kick out of this entertainingly goofy 90s fight-flick. Notable high points for me are Jake's leonine hair, a sweet Ninja Turtles reference, all Gerald Okamura's scenes, and the beaten Daniels heroic return to fearsome fighting form montage is the don!

The story is OK and so is the acting but your first clue that it's not that great is the fact it's only a $1 and in a cardboard sleeve.

It really is just another Martial arts movie not much to be said. It's from the early 90's and it shows. Not the amount of violence we love to see in todays movies a decade later. Honestly it's not to bad and I'd probably watch it again. Gary Daniels is honestly not a bad actor and is a pretty decent fighter.

So when you judge this movie please realize it's not up to today's standards. It doesn't have big name actors and was probably a low budget film.

Not a bad film considering the budget that they probably had to work with. It appears that all departments had minimal experience given the various mistakes throughout the film. I especially noticed the poor sense of lighting and camerawork displayed in the film. Another very good example of a new director that should have chosen an experienced Cameraman.

This movie has all the martial arts action Gary Daniels fans expect from the master. But, it also has a good story. It moves at a fast pace and there is a fight about every 5 to 10 minutes. The training scenes are awesome! A must see for Gary Daniels fans. Just don't waste your time on the so called sequel.