Streets of Legend

This film is a cantankerous piece of crap. It deserves to rest for all eternity in the bowels of hell. A day after seeing this film I heard someone say that it had great visuals for a low budget film. Know what else has great visuals for a low budget film? Two girls one cup. Which is an excellent thing to watch as a companion piece if you want to understand the film on a thematic level more clearly. It's really nothing more than a bunch of complete wastes of life vomiting fecal matter dialog into each others faces and then engaging in "fights' that resemble two women on Maury who just figured out their trailer trash boyfriend is cheating on both of them with a midget. Except less entertaining. But I forgave that because deep down this movie is about cars, not emotion. Cars that go fast. Nothing else. Right? At least that's what I kept telling myself so I would refrain from jabbing myself in the eye with a fountain pen. The car scenes we're like watching a bunch of drunk ten year old's race their big wheels. My pulse literally slowed, and for a moment I may have slipped into cardiac arrest. Thankfully I was saved by the fact that the movie had ended. But to be perfectly honest, there are times when I sit up late at night thinking I wish I had died right then and there. That way I wouldn't have to live out the rest of my life knowing this abomination exists.

What is amazing about this movie is the real action that I have not seen before in any action / racing scenes with no stuntmen. Unique filming ideas and real life actors make it a very realistic experience. The `Romeo and Juliet' story repeats itself in many movies, including this one. Noza is torn between old and new love, even in the inevitable end.

I don't know whether it would be more interesting to talk about how this movie was made than the actual movie itself, so I'll talk about BOTH.

Shot almost entirely at night with mini-cams suction-cupped to the sides of high-performance cars, the nocturnal lifestyle of highway streetracing gets its most accurate portrayal ever! This is one of the few racing movies you'll ever see that shows a speedometer cracking 140 mph and the car is actually going that fast (with a teenage driver no less).

No stunt people were used to create the numerous races, fights, and eventual car wreck that occurs. Amazingly, no one was hurt during the filming though some of the drivers were ticketed by the California Highway Patrol, and you get to see the 'CHIPS' captured on camera, too (more illegal surveillance for the audience to enjoy).

Worth watching just for the bright, colorful, visual imagery produced by experimental cinematography utilizing modified camera shutter speeds as well as the bravery of the filmmakers themselves for sticking with this project for three years, amassing over 250 hours of footage which is distilled down to about an hour and a half.

This film was a real waste of time, do yourselves a favor and don't watch this!

It has no plot whatsoever, its a movie about NOTHING.

And the "experimental cinematography" is really REALLY bad, it looks like they gave a bunch of apes a few cheap webcams and trained them to film the "actors"...

Even the racing sucked, the picture was so grainy and bad-quality looking i couldn't even enjoy the race scenes ... not that there was anything there to enjoy, really ...

Bottom line - a total waste of time, and a fine example of "how to NOT make a movie".

I heard an read harsh comments about this movie, so i watched it and when I found out how it was made I was extremely impressed loved it better than most high budget movies especially on a 750k budget back before 4k vision wasn't heard of, most of these harsh comments are from people who are used to high budget Hollywood films and not knowing the background of the movie and don't forget this movie was made in the late 99s early 2000 and used actual racing footage no stunt men no million dollar producer or actors this is howstreet racing was and still is to this day just catching up with the bros racing and cruising Nice job on a good movie.