The great Steve James is a bounty hunter/detective in a low budget and often surreal film where he battles a young John Leguizamo as wimpy drug dealer who hires psycho Reb Brown and his band of mercenaries to be his muscle in an attempt to take over the criminal under world. James was an under rated actor who really should have achieved super stardom thanks to a winning personality and the ability to making acting look easy no matter who he was matched against. Here he's his stalwart self walking through his role with ease and charm that makes it all okay. Leguizamo is laughably awful in an early role for him. He is so not a match for James that the meetings are comedic and played as such. The need to take his villainy seriously requires the addition of Reb Brown who gives a merely adequate and one note performance as the head of the mercenaries. Thankfully Brown is a match for James in the action department and it makes for some good action sequences. The film as a whole is okay. Its perfect example of a late 1980's exploitation (even though it was released in 1990). It's undemanding and a perfect popcorn film.
Review of Street Hunter
