It ain't no
DEADLY PREY, but MIAMI CONNECTION is still an enjoyable "so bad it's good" low budget,
lower talent 80's actioner about a club band, Dragon Sound, who get caught up in
a war against the band that previously played at the club and a gang of
cocaine running ninjas. There's also some drama about the lone female's
jealous brother and the keyboard players lost father.
As far as 80's action movies go, MIAMI CONNECTION is shitty, but time has
actually been kind to it and watching it nowadays it's fun to laugh at the
amateurish action scenes, the silly 80's fashions and just how
upbeat these dorks are! I don't know if there's a nitrous oxide leak at
their house (yes, they all live together) or what, but these fuckers are always
in a good mood. At one point this one dude gets some good news in the
mail, so the other four come running outside and begin carrying him around the
front yard on their shoulders! Who does that?
Piss poor acting, goofy 80's fashions, an initial quick pace that actually
slowed down as the film goes on, multiple unintentionally funny moments that
you'll have to rewind and watch over, two musical numbers early on but then
nothing for the remainder of the film, a guy and 20 of his closest friends
picking his sister up at college, buns that are unlike the ones they make at the
bakery, stupid cocaine, toe-to-nose kung fu, dismemberment, nudists for Jesus,
bad lighting and some horrific topless scenes that left me wishing I was
watching an Andy Sidaris flick instead.