Streets of Legend

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.

When they cut this film down to around 90 min. they struck gold. It was way too long before (I've seen both versions). If this ever gets released, it will now be a HUGE hit. The negative comments on here are all from the too long version, from what I've seen. Once people start seeing the cut down version, the sentiment will change. I've heard that Lion's Gate bought the rights. Hello??? Lion's Gate??? When is the shortened version going to be released??? I've already seen it, but I will pay the $7.50 to see it again, but on the big screen. Anyone have any updates about when this might be released? Is the Lion's Gate thing just a rumor? Enquiring minds want to know...

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.

This movie is complete trash. The film is way to grainy and there are so many effects going on you cant even tell what is happening in the shot. There is never a single clear shot of any of the cars while they are driving (which is like 5 min of the movie). There is WAY to many close ups and extreme close ups that are just frustrating. It looks like a project for a film school that was made while high. The story is extremely weak, and there is hardly enough street racing in it to even call it a racing movie. The cars are what drew me in, I'm a sucker for tuners, but they played no key role in the film and were not even that cool. IT IS A CHEAP LOVE STORY!!!!!

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.