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I saw this movie because I was interested in the plot and the cast. The "dirty cops" premise is lately becoming an exploitation, to mind come "Training day", "Dark blue", "Narc", and "Dirty". Unfortunately all these are far superior than this mess. The cinematography is nothing special, sometimes OK, sometimes awful. The story is quasi-complicated and fails to bring any tension whatsoever. The acting is not bad, but nothing special either. Val Kilmer, Sharon Stone and Barry Shabaka Hennley have little to work with. Biehn is pretty enjoyable. To me the biggest surprise was 50 cent - he wouldn't win any award for his acting here, but let's be honest, if I didn't knew he wasn't an actor but a gangsta-rapper I would have never guessed it. His character is supposed to be torn apart between right and wrong, but we don't really feel for him or never do we really see his inner struggle. This is however due to bad writing and is not Jackson's fault. He is not worse than any of the other actors in the movie, this could be due to the thin story, but still he does OK, no complaints here. Of course to all who know something about 50 cent, fans or haters, it is hilarious to hysterical to watch him run around dressed as a patrol cop. The dialogue is average. Now the action on the other hand, if not on par with films as "Heat", "Ronin", or even Michael Bay's flicks is actually quite well executed. The viewer is never confused who is shooting at whom and why, no guns firing 100000000 bullets without reloading either. The ending doesn't make much sense. The editing is good, no MTV-style quick cuts. Overall it is just a movie to kill some time with, but don't expect anything above average. If You are interested in the cast feel free to watch it.

In New Orleans after the Katrina, the partner of Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) is found dead and he teams up with Stan Green (50 Cent) that becomes his new partner. During the investigations, am undercover DEA agent is murdered by two dirty police officers, and the psychologist Nina Ferraro (Sharon Stone) has successive interviews with Andy, Stan and the two detectives. Meanwhile, the FBI also investigate the corruption in the police force leaded by Agent Brown (Michael Biehn).

"Streets of Blood" is a police story that has potential, but fails since it is very confused. The theme of corruption in the police is also interesting, but the messy screenplay of this movie ruins the story. The camera and the cinematography are poor and the edition of the DVD is awful with a terrible framing. Sharon Stone is unrecognizable. My vote is five.

Title (Brazil): "Ruas de Sangue" ("Streets of Blood")

I am really disappointed in this film. Seeing the premise in it's description it sounded like it had a lot of potential. Val Kilmer is generally a good actor and he is not horrible in this however the plot is so confusing that it really doesn't do him justice as an actor. Sharon Stone's accent is so bad, it upstages her performance which really could have been anyone. That part didn't even warrant star billing. I don't have a problem with 50 cent. I think for who he is, playing this part was a stretch and it shows that maybe he is developing some range as an actor.

Overall the plot is just too confusing and the story seems to roam around finding itself. I still do not understand the end in that it didn't seem to be set up well in the earlier stages of the film. As I said, lot's of potential.. obviously a poorly written script.

This was the worst movie I have ever seen in 45 years. It didn't even have a hero or antihero to root for. Every character in the movie is corrupt. The script, direction, acting, everything bad, bad, bad. You may want to buy a 10 foot pole to keep this one away and I am a Val Kilmer fan!!! Maybe this movie was written by corrupt cops for corrupt cops. Did this movie get made for 150,000 dollars and go straight to DVD? It wasn't even worth being made. I would be very surprised if anyone who saw this enjoyed it and wanted to buy the DVD or watch it again, not counting Sharon Stone's mother or Val Kilmer's sister. If you love film, stay away. If you love Val Kilmer, stay away. If you love Sharon Stone, stay away. If you love Michael Beihn stay away. If you love Steven Segall movies you will enjoy this movie very much. LOL.

This movie left me bewildered and frustrated as all hell! The story had all the makings of a great corrupt cop picture. In the hands of a worthwhile director it might have even been worthy of a theatrical release. The talent was all there. The location and story were there as well. The director of photography should be charged with a crime for making the picture look like an eight year old with ADHD and a handycam shot it! This absolutely ruined everything from the start, and was distracting and throughout. Surprisingly, about half-way in, everything starts to click, the imagery is less annoying, and the story comes together. The director is horribly inept, but somehow they completed the picture. I feel bad for everyone involved watching the finished product. They also must have seen a vision in a worthwhile script, which was ultimately devastated by the hacks at Millennium Films, and the talentless director. So frustrating.

You can like the faces involved in this dtv trip, but this "dirty cops" movie has all the twists and turns you're expecting or have seen before countless times. It's a bit disjointed and they were obviously working with limited time, money, heck maybe an incomplete script.

In the midst of hurricane Katrina, Det. Devereaux (Kilmer) stumbles upon his former partners body in a warehouse and seems oddly unphased by it. He gains Det. Johnson (50 Cent) as a new partner. They get intertwined with dirty cops who end up killing an undercover federal agent. This gets FBI Agent Brown (Michael Biehn) involved. While Devereaux makes trips to the police therapist (Sharon Stone) as the usual assortment of police corruption & gangster bits play out.

What to take away from this? Quick paychecks for everyone. A Nu Image / Millennium Films dtv quickie. Kilmer & Biehn get to share the screen again. Stone doesn't get to make much of an impact with her character. 'Streets of Blood' features a poor ending, but Kilmer and 50 Cent became friends in real life so there's that.

Yet another film made bad by horrible casting choices. Seriously, how can you expect to sellout movie theaters casting Val Kilmer and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson as your lead roles? To be honest, when I first heard of about this film I was surprisingly excited to see it. I've always liked Val Kilmer and thought this could actually be good. But of course the excitement didn't last long. This film is full of drawn out suspense, horrible acting splashed with horrible Louisiana accents and my favorite part of any film which is getting lost in the story. That said the 6 stars I gave for this film are strictly on the basis of its suspense aspect and any director having the kahunas to put 50 cent in their film should get just a little credit.

Instead of watching this film I could go out and do something better like jogging,playing football... but instead of doing that I wasted almost two hours on this film.First of all I liked the music and nothing else.They tried to copy Training Day and Street Kings but they didn't succeed in that.Story is really confusing,there is no real hero in the film,everything is spoiled with corruption-I don't like that.And actors...50 Cent looked like a frightened girl,he has a poor performance in this film and what to say about Sharon Stone,I couldn't recognize her at first.She has lost all her sexuality and I don't know what happened with her acting maybe she forgot how to act.I love Val Kilmer but here-average performance.And in the end,I tried to find out on Box Office Mojo how much money they earned with this film and I found nothing,the film is not even listed there.That speaks for itself!

In a post Katrina New Orleans, law and order is not the rule. This movie chronicles the efforts of a basically good cop trying to free The streets of New Orleans from the drug dealers that are overrunning it. There are other cops that are not so clean, but how far can you bend the law trying to do your job before it finally breaks. While the tactics used are sometimes less than socially acceptable, the intention of the best of them is drug free streets. When the FBI decides to investigate them, these officers have to more closely follow the law in their search for the head of the drug dealing. Val Kilmer was great in this movie and Sharon Stone finally played a character that was finally likable. She was eloquent and acted her age. While this wasn't the best movie I have seen recently, I really enjoyed watching it and would recommend it to others.

Gee, I'm gonna have to play the devil's advocate with this film, shamelessly called as being the worst movie ever or things close to such remark. If "Streets of Blood" is the worst thing people are seeing lately then it's better they stay away from movies. It's just another direct-to-video flick that is filled with poor moments and some average acting but it overcomes some of those obstacles and becomes something watchable, easy to digest. Good and that's it.

The plot goes to show that corruption is everywhere, no one is safe but some corrupt cops are better than the others. It follows Val Kilmer and Curtis Jackson (50 Cent) as two cops investigating the deaths of several criminals in the New Orleans post-Katrina, a place now devastated, trying to recover from its problems. They're not 100% honest but they're better than their strange partners (played by Brian Presley and Jose Pablo Cantillo), also cops, but with no discipline whatsoever, committing crimes on several occasions, and in one of those they've killed an undercover agent. Parallel to the deaths and the cops routine, there's the Internal Affairs investigation made by Sharon Stone's character trying to figure out if there's dirty cops in the police force when she's positive that there is.

Action scenes are okay, nothing so outstanding. The drama was very problematic with flashbacks that were badly presented, hard to put in order and they diluted the possible chance of suspense. However, the biggest problem is that it tries too hard to impress with its scenes (like the shooting in the drug dealer's house with a horny couple that couldn't stop with the sex while bullets were flying next to them; or when the cops are trying to get information from the hookers.) without making any relevant statement about New Orleans problems after the Hurricane Katrina. To the writers it's far more interesting to say that the crime got worse after the natural disaster but let's show this on a action generic picture than to make dramatic and real statements. But it's so much better than "Hard Luck" whose premise is very similar (in dealing with the tragedy in New Orleans) but that was a pretty bad movie with no chance of redemption. And Hollywood still hasn't made one decent movie about this issue, it's about time.

When it comes the acting department, well, Kilmer and Stone are not on their best form; Jackson goes okay so does Presley playing the redneck cop who always accidentally fires at somebody; Barry Shabaka Henley saved the day playing the only good cop in town; Michael Biehn already tired me out countless times while playing villains.

Really, this is not that bad as viewers tend to say. It offers some good entertainment, a distraction and some good scenes like the repeated exchange between Jackson and a lawyer one cursing each other. I've seen worst things than this film and I trust that some of you as well. 6/10

Watched due to an interest in the area and the culture. This effort was painful to watch and listen to. Accents and attitudes are absurd. What planet are these people supposed to be from? I guess the producers think that New Orleans is part of Georgia or South Carolina. Once again a film about New Orleas that's a total miss and flop. Comment to producers and writers...try spending some time in the region before your next effort.

I think this piece of crap pretty much ranks down there as the worst film in the history of cinema. Can't believe they had Sharon Stone and Val Kilmer participate in this for a paycheck. I guess they needed the money. Val Kilmer acting opposite a gangster rapper now there's a washed up actor!

The so-called "director" is worse than a 1st yr NYU student at film-making. How do these people get the financing and get to "direct" movies just blows my mind... It's shot with this totally wanking documentary style which looks cheap and I find really distracting. Millennium Films sucks gas.

Awful movie about a bunch of idiotic trigger happy cops in New Orleans, has very little point or direction to it, and tries to lure people into watching it by featuring some big named stars (albeit washed up ones). Sharon Stone, Val Kilmer and Michael Biehn make a wage, and 50 cent proves once again that he can't act. Stone looks good for a woman in her 50s but really shows how far she has fallen from being A list material with this direct-to-video mess. Same can be said of Kilmer I suppose. Maybe worthy of a bunch of ten year olds who like to watch mindless gory violence and have little comprehension of plot lines and script. Idiotic and absurd, a true waste of time. Shows how far modern movies have fallen.

From the bad accents to the bad filming - it's like a kid in the 90s with a camera. Just a bunch of thinly written actions of dirty cops. Poor Val.

I stopped watching after 30 minutes. I didnt find any real story by that time, just a lot of gangsta scenes. Drugs, sex, dirty police with no understanding of where this story was going or what was the point of anything the detectives were doing. If something real was going to happen, it would have already happened by then. Instead I was left without any clue who was doing what & why. Did any of this have anything to do with the first scene of the floater. There's no way to know & I gave up thinking that the story would tell us in the end what really happened. Could have been a good movie, but ended up disappointing, despite the big name actors.

"Guy's like Andy and me, were all that stands between people like you and the end of the motherfucking world" strong movie, good ending!

Didn't even know this was half a rapper flick but it did the job for a great movie night.

the movie delivers a nice break in the action with the moments before the action starts again, not really for kids though. I would say for the swearing and nudity, it was acceptable for the feel of realism in the movie.

the movie shows real footage of the new Orleans disaster and gets you hooked from the start!

i would definitely recommend this movie to all the rapper fans and all the people who normally hate the rapper scene because this movie will prove that it is possible to keep the story line on top and the rap second that by the way makes up for some good soundtracks............................enjoy the movie!

Val Kilmer...what happened? Not to say Streets of Blood is that bad of a movie, but what happened to Heat? Played? Hmm. Surprised to see Sharon Stone too.

Anyway, Streets follows Andy Devereaux (Kilmer) and his new partner Stan (50 Cent) and their efforts to rid the New Orleans Police Department of unnecessary corruption. Unnecessary because Andy and Stan have decided to take the law into their own hands. So have two other officers (Brian Presley and Jose Pablo Cantillo), however their exploits led to the death of an undercover DEA agent. An investigator (from the city, naturally) (Michael Biehn btw)comes down to check on all of these characters. Sharon Stone meanwhile sits around and asks straightforward questions to our heroes.

The acting...is what you'd expect from a straight to DVD movie. On the part of Kilmer and Biehn, it's great. Especially Biehn, who's the best performance in the film. Fiddy is okay. Jose Pablo Cantillo is pretty good too as a foul mouthed cop. Couldn't help but think of Mark Wahlberg's character from The Departed. I was surprised to see Barry Shabaka Henley, one of those "that guy" actors that you know-but-not-by-name. He was Cptn. Friendly. By far Sharon Stone is the worst, her accent is indescribably bad.

It's exactly what you expect, nothing more, nothing less. Maybe I'll watch it again, someday.

I really liked this one. Surprisingly this movie could turn all it's disadvantages to a benefits. For example, movie is really cheap - hand camera and almost all shooting was made on real streets . And because of that it looks much more realistic and atmospheric than all "Training Day" clones. The plot is a mess, it is very hard to understand who are the heroes and villains, but this only add realism to this movie. All character are bad (like in noir movies of 50th). Actors didn't do anything special but because of that they look really believable. Val Kilmer is playing cop who never took bribes but constantly brakes laws, makes illegal searches and plants evidences to get drug dealers or simply kills them. But despite of it he is a man of strong principles. His own principles. 50 Cent is playing his partner (I must say I hate 50 cent, since he is a disgrace in music, but in this movie he actually had buff down and looked pretty decent) who torn by Kilmer's methods but always covering his back and secretly stealing money from dead dealers when he had a chance. And it is really hard to understand who is even worse cops or FBI. As I say, what really made this film special in my eyes among dozens of Training Day clones, this movie feels real. And because it felt real all it's disadvantages looks insignificant. And for everyone who felt this way, must especially enjoy the ending