Introduction and FEAR CITY

Before we delve into the masterpiece that is FEAR CITY, let's introduce ourselves a bit.

Ryan- Will watch anything as long as there's popcorn. He is very good at knowing actor/actresses and the roles they've played in various films. Always on the lookout for bad 80s movies.

Chris- Oldest member and largest supplier of the films. Seriously this guy will blow money on any movie without even knowing what it is. Proved that John Cusack wears a Hawaiian shirt in every one of his films.

Dennis-the youngest member and most naive. Can watch "Batman" and then "Johnny Dangerously" and not realize both are Michael Keaton. Biggest concern in movies is that the military is accurately portrayed. (He's usually dissappointed). Hates Ryan and Chris.

And now that we've established our players, let's begin with a personal favorite, FEAR CITY

How did we choose this film you ask? Well for one, Billy Dee Williams. Flipping through OnDemand's free movies, we discovered this nugget of gold. When we saw it starred Billy Dee we almost jumped on it BUT Tom Berenger was also in it! The three of us... we just don't trust Tom Berenger. Ever since he shot Willem Dafoe in PLATOON, we lost all faith in Tom Berenger. Of course, Billy Dee in a city of fear sold us and we put it on.

You just can't trust Tom Berenger.

From the description Comcast provided, we believed Billy Dee and Berenger to be two detectives trying to find a serial killer targeting hookers. That's not the case. Billy Dee's a detective alright. Berenger's a...well we don't actually know. He's not so much a pimp as a stripper dealer.

"Don't rock and roll with me, Rossi!"

Anyway after a gruesome attack on a stripper, we find out that there is a serial killer running around Fear City so that much we got right. Of course, this isn't an ordinary serial killer. This dude's a German ninja who practices karate in the nude (when he's not killing strippers) in his little apartment. Every time he kills another one, he writes a new chapter in his book aptly titled "FEAR CITY". Although it's never explained why he's writing a book in the first place or why he targets strippers or why he practices naked.

Berenger's gotta stop this mad ninja and save his girlfriend stripper Melanie Griffith before she too falls prey. Lucky for Berenger, he's an ex-boxer with a history of killing people in the ring. It's exciting stuff. He trains like Rocky in a musical monologue. All the while, the ninja dude is still killing hookers in sophisticated ninja ways. In the one scene, he slices a woman's head off with a katana blade on a street corner and then books it. In the end, Berenger faces off with the ninja and KO's him to death. Even after the killer is dead and Berenger gets the girl, Chris and I were still waiting for Berenger to show his true colors. "There's no way they made him a hero". Surely Berenger was about to shoot Griffith and leave her dying in Vietcong-infested territory. This...uh...never happened. To this day, Chris and I are still waiting for Berenger's betrayal. Mind you, the movie's been over for 41 days.

Honestly, we believe this movie was a result of two guys at a gym: one a boxer and one a martial artist. Someone asks who would win in a fight. The boxer and martial artist both say they would win. Billy Dee overhears this and thinks it'd be a good movie...if only there was something else...oh yeah, strippers! Ryan met Billy Dee before he watched Fear City, but it is his hope that the next time they meet, he can say "Dude! Fear City!" to which Billy Dee will reply:

"Hell yeah, Fear City"

All in all, a great movie for Billy Dee fans (although not enough for Dennis' liking) and a testament that even Tom Berenger gets to be the hero once in a while. Watch FEAR CITY now! Until next time!