cannonclubonline Set on the backdrop of devastated New Orleans after the Katrina, the partner of Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) is found dead. Devereauz soon teams up with Stan Green (50 Cent) as new partner. During the investigations, an undercover DEA agent is murdered by two dirty police officers who are corrupt and power hungry. I can't forget the segment where the drug dealers are hanging at the house listening to loud music and having sex with the women.The precinct's psychologist Nina Ferraro (Sharon Stone) has successive interviews with Andy, Stan and the two perpetrators of the shooting. Meanwhile, the FBI also investigate the corruption in the police force leaded by Agent Brown (Michael Biehn).Kilmer's and 50 Cent's chemistry is crucial for this film to work out. Unfortunately, it's just too disappointing that they don't deliver in that aspect because the script is fairly engaging at times. The viewer has to be witness to this vile & grim view of crime & how it affects the characters who are being watched as they are supposed to just protect & serve our interest but obviously are not. The shaky digital camera works in this instance because nothing about this bleak world we are entering should be represented with the opposite of beauty which is filth & grime. The camera is all over the place, barely ever still. There seems to be only a few long shots that turn out any longer than maybe five or so seconds before switching angles. Even though the plot gets messy & is a bit hard to follow, we must always remember that life in the projects gets quite blurry sometime, not sure if we understand who the heroes or the villains really are, yet this paradox only adds realism to the film. All the players in this film are corrupt in some fashion. We assume they all are worldly guys that are not always saints that do special things, yet this street-wise quality makes the characters look really believable. Val Kilmer is playing cop who never took bribes but constantly brakes laws, makes illegal searches & plants evidences to get drug dealers or simply kills them. But despite of this, he is a man of strong principles. His own principles. 50 Cent is playing his partner who, torn by Kilmer's methods, always covered his back & secretly steals money from busts when he had the opportunity.I'm going to point my finger at Kilmer's disconnection here since I thought that 50 CENT tried to show emotions half of the time, but Kilmer never really engaged his guilt. Yet still, Kilmer seems to be barely mumbling, making it hard to understand him at times. Maybe that's the way the director wanted him to come over as a cursing bad guy or something, but it didn't hardly work for me mostly. Sharon Stone was not really a good pick for this piece since it was much harder for me to believe in her Cajun accent.Overall the plot is just a bit too confusing and the story seems to roam. 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. There was a scene when one of the guys got shot up against some food trailer and he smeared blood all over the side of the trailer where it said something about roasted rooster balls. I guess that was an ironic end to his vengeful demise? As I stated the script could have been a great deal stronger and the the acting by 50 cent could have be a great deal better, however, I'm sure, for him as a rapper, it's probably hard for him to feel comfortable playing a street cop.

Bob_the_Hobo 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.

danielmgoudreau 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.

derirre357 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.