Street (2015) Reviews

• Bad showcase for Beau Casper Smart

  tatsu20502016-10-24

  The general acting is OK for a zero budget movie like this. It is FAR from good but the bigger problem than the actor's abilities is the horrible directing. The whole make of the movie looks like a film school project of a beginners class and that's 50% the director's fault. 40% of the rest that is bad is on the seriously bad and cheap production. I wouldn't be surprised if it was made over the course of two weekends with a budget of less than 10.000$. The story is predictable but if you watch a movie of this type you are probably a martial arts fan and can forgive a lot. I know I have enjoyed movies with a story that's worse if the action rocks. So how about the fights? In few and fitting words: Unimaginative and boring. You can see that Beau Casper Smart has the moves - being a professional dancer it comes as no surprise. But it seems the choreographer has no experience choreographing fight scenes. It looks like he watched a few MMA fights, then made up a list of moves that he thinks are typical, pressed shuffle and just went with the outcome. There are barely any dynamics in the fights, the camera angles are boring and mostly sub par, the cuts feel like someone said "hey, don't forget a cut and angle change there, dude" at some point. I think if you put a real fight choreographer in charge of the fights, give the camera to someone who's used one for more than a couple of family vacations and make sure the director isn't stoned or on the crapper while the action is happening you could get some really good results out of Beau Casper Smart. Comparing his acting to Van Damme or Segal he actually looks pretty good. Compare him to Scott Adkins, though, and you see he still has a loooong way ahead of him. But I'd definitely watch it if he gave another martial arts flick a try.

• Beau Smart is awful

  kimmifit2015-11-27

  This movie for SURE would have been better if the lead was not Beau Smart. This guy cannot act at all. I imagine he got this role because Jennifer Lopez is his girlfriend. Not a bad story, but this guy Beau Smart should get smarter and go back to dancing. I love fighter movies and thought this would be good. Again, it was a good story . Most of the acting was pretty good. it dragged a bit, but I think I was out of my mind because Beau's NON acting was driving me crazy so it felt like the movie was 100 hours long. They keep telling me my review is not long enough but I do not know what else to say. The plot was not bad and I thought Beau's acting was terrible. What else to write. Better cast next time.

• Okay if you're a fight fan

  UglytheClown2016-05-29

  The movie is about a kid called 'Street' who is threaten by a 'Mr. Big character into fighting for him for free or have his family hurt ... and there is no reason given for him to not go to police through bad writing. The idea is there, but it's not been though about enough (though the script was re-written by a 3rd writer so maybe she messed it up, who knows?) The biggest problem with this movie is the sound. The music comes in loud and hard when it's not needed and drowns out the actors' dialogue and at other times, when music is playing in the background of the room and it makes sense for it to be loud... you can barely hear it. The sound designer needs to give back their paycheck. There wasn't any real build up to the finale and some characters were under-written, but if you're a fan of martial arts movies, you'll probably get past it all for a single viewing. The actors do a good enough job but some acting looks bad at times due to camera placement.

• Copy paste of 'Never back down', just not as good

  visserwow2016-11-23

  Actual movie is copy paste of 'Never back down', just way worse directing... Firstly, its a movie and people will notice when 3 different people wear the same shirt across 6 scenes, literally just switching who wears it... Secondly, when you hire trained professionals to do a fighting movie, likelihood is that they wont mind throwing real punches and even if they do mind they wont mind it being closer than the movie's ruler's length fake punches and kicks. Thirdly, the person who did the music for the movie should just be shot, period. The audio leaching into next scenes is horrendous and the dialog interference is unbearable with badly chosen music played in foreground, not back. If you intend on watching this movie, be sure to expect a $10 budget cut movie that couldn't even make use of the actors for the movie cover (spoiler, its CGI, but the movie isn't).

• Good Movie!

  jesslouisehayward2018-05-02

  The movie and storyline itself was enjoyable but the editing of the film is what ruined its potential to be great.