Review of Fear City (1984) by Mike K — 24 Apr 2010
Abel Ferrara made King of New York, Bad Lieutenant and Body Snatchers, all good, low budget sleazy movies. But he had a lot of practice. This movie is so bad, it actually gives Melanie Griffith nothing to do after she has shown her ta-tas a few times.
Literally, her character does nothing for the second half of the movie. The plot is that a martial arts guy is killing strippers. Why? We're never told. Nor is the identity a secret since we know from the first scene who he is, which makes the whole hard-boiled detective role played by Billy Dee Williams extraneous.
What this movie really is about is a boxer played by Tom Berenger who killed a guy in the ring a few years earlier and is dealing with that. Don't want to spoil anything, but he goes mano a mano in the final scene with the kiler.
This review of Fear City (1984) was written by Mike K on 24 Apr 2010.
Fear City has generally received mixed reviews.
Was this review helpful?
