Streets of Blood

Streets of Blood

Film poster
Directed by Charles Winkler
Produced by Nu Image Films
Millennium Films
Written by Eugene Hess
Starring Val Kilmer
50 Cent
Brian Presley
Jose Pablo Cantillo
Michael Biehn
Sharon Stone
Music by Steven Endelman
Cinematography Roy H. Wagner
Edited by Clayton Halsey
Production
company
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release dates
  • July 28, 2009
Country United States
Language English

Streets of Blood is a 2009 action-drama film starring Val Kilmer, 50 Cent, Michael Biehn and Sharon Stone. It is directed by Charles Winkler with a screenplay written by Eugene Hess based on a story by Hess and Dennis Fanning. The film was produced by Nu Image/Millennium Films.[1]

Plot

During the rage of Hurricane Katrina, Detective Andy Devereaux (Val Kilmer) discovers the body of his former partner in a close to underwater warehouse. Quickly forgetting about his discovery, he joins a newly transferred detective named Stan Johnson (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) trying to end a conflict involving looters.

Post-Katrina, Andy and Stan are now partners. They work with corrupt detectives Pepe (Jose Pablo Cantillo) and Barney (Brian Presley), who are caught up in the murder of an undercover narcotics agent. Investigating the escalating police corruption in New Orleans is FBI Agent Brown (Michael Biehn). Brown brings up his thoughts to Police Captain Friendly (Barry Shabaka Henley) who insists he is doing his best to solve the problems in his department.

Meanwhile, police therapist Nina Ferraro (Sharon Stone) tries to help the detectives with their struggles, with little avail. She is particularly interested in Andy, whose father, also a detective, was murdered in the line of duty.

Things are complicated further with Agent Brown's investigation into Andy and his crew. Brown tells Andy that he has an informant who is leaking out the details, and Andy, disbelieving at first, begins to resign himself to the fact that one of his men is betraying him.

After Captain Friendly is assassinated by a local gangster named Chamorro, Andy, Stan, Pepe, and Barney decide to take the law into their own hands and go after Chamorro. While interrogating Chamorro, they find out that Brown has been supplying the drug dealer with information about the police raids, to help his own investigation. In a violent shootout, Barney accidentally shoots and kills Pepe.

Andy and Stan escape, only to return to the warehouse where they met. There Andy realizes that Stan is the informant. After the two start arguing, Brown shows up and there is another shootout, ending in Brown's death. Andy comforts a sobbing Stan, then Andy kills his partner, as he possibly did with his previous one.

The film ends on a low note, leaving no premise about Andy's future.

Production

Filming took place in Shreveport, Louisiana,[2] including some shooting at the Louisiana Wave Studio.[1]

As of April 2010, the movie is available on DVD at Blockbuster Video, Redbox and Netflix.

Cast

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Louisiana Wave Studio attracts Val Kilmer, 50 Cent movie". Shreveport Times. 2008-06-10.
  2. "Hollywood South notes: Cage to shoot 'Bad Lieutenant' in N.O.". New Orleans Office of Film and Video. 2008-05-24.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Dave McNary (2008-04-17). "Kilmer, Stone walk 'Streets of Blood'". Variety. Retrieved 2008-09-30.

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