Savage Streets Review

Interest: 7.5/10

Acting: 6.5/10

Storyline: 7/10

Intensity: 10/10

Fights Guns or Otherwise: 7.5/10

Nudity: 10/10

Action: 6/10

Crime: 10/10

Drama: 10/10

Logic: 5/10

Savage Streets is a 1984 film, and the genres it is categorized in is action, crime, and drama. Run time is one hour and thirty-three minutes. The movie stars Linda Blair (known for The Exorcist, Savage Streets, Hell Night, and Exorcist II: The Heretic), John Vernon (known for Dirty Harry, Animal House, The Outlaw Josey Wales, and Killer Klowns From Outer Space), and Robert Dryer (Known for Savage Streets, Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow, Dead Men Don’t Die, and The Rousters). The quick summary of this film is “A teenage goes on a revenge killing against criminal scum who raped her handicapped sister and for killing her best friend.” This one seems schlockey but fun, let’s see how it scores shall we?

Interest: The movie kept my interest well. It can be hard to watch for some, especially because of the subject matter in which it deals with, but in the end I think if you’re into action movies or schlock movies, this will keep you entertained with the action, the terrible things that happen, and the quotes.

Acting: The acting is all across the board on this one. With some people doing an excellent job at making you hate them for who their character is, to people that you go “Why the hell are you here?” But what we see mostly on screen, are people who are able to fill the roles they need to and at least are the archetypes and are them well.

Storyline: While I like the storyline and the way it goes, it probably isn’t for most, it deals with rape of a deaf women who also might be special needs, and a woman who is pregnant who dies. The first part is what I think most won’t be able to deal with and I understand. But the plot seems to not have many plot holes, seems to know what it wants to do, and executes it.

Intensity: Savage Streets does something that my recent films I’ve watched haven’t done, which actually has intensity. The intensity does get burned quickly, while a back part of the movie builds. One of the characters, Jake, is a freaking mad man and he makes it intense all the way through, and makes most of the intensity, while Brenda, the female lead, does do some herself, but not until the end does she really help with it tremendously

Fights, Guns or Otherwise: Their is a lot of verbal banter that is more or less “Bitch!” or “Cunt!” plus some one liners that are unique and excellent. There is a decent amount of actual fights that go on. They are fun, sometimes a little strange, but for a 1984 movie with a not so great budget, I think they did excellently.

Nudity: So if Nudity is your thing, this movie has a bunch of it pretty much everywhere. Most of it was just the “Hey look, boobs” mentality, but the rape scene I suppose in the whole sense of the movie, is “needed”. Not enjoyed, but understood.

Action: The action is actually pretty tame in the movie. While fights are good (see above) If we look at other things that would be part of a action film (crazy heist, cool stunts, or just explosions) don’t happen much at all. Which isn’t a bad thing, it’s just hard to call it an action movie.

Crime: Crime is very rampant in Savage Streets. There’s reference to blow, rape, sketchy dealings, and a few other things that make crime pretty much a main focus point of the movie. It at time gets grim, and makes things weird and probably uncomfortable, but I think it shows that the bad guys, are truly and utterly vile.

Drama: Drama is definitely abundant in Savage Streets, and it literally starts immediate and doesn’t stop until the very end. Brenda is a hard ass and always is first to jump your shit, and other characters grow and develop throughout the whole movie.

Logic: Logic in this film is alright. Some things either didn’t get explored, or did, and the response to things were very poor. I’m trying not to spoil things to much, but the lack of logic really helps the movie have the great ending it has.

So Did I like the movie? I absolutely did. Do I recommend this movie? Yes, under the condition that you’re fine with a rape scene in a film. If you aren’t steer clear. If you are, then get ready for some great vengeance happening in the film. I personally don’t like the rape scene, but in the overall picture of the film, I understand it, and it becomes the catalyst for Brenda to go on her rampage of revenge. I score this film a 79.5% which is pretty darn high, and I think this film may be a film I’m honestly looking for, a cult movie that most people have never heard of, that is competent, but still knows what it needs to do, and does it. I’d gladly watch it again on it’s own merits, or ripping the film a new one also, it’s a fairly flexible movie, and fun, minus the rape. Well Until Next Time!