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      Band of the Hand

      R 1986 1 hr. 49 min. Crime Drama List
      0% 8 Reviews Tomatometer 59% 2,500+ Ratings Audience Score An Indian Vietnam veteran (Stephen Lang) trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Premiered Mar 19 Buy Now

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      Steve D A complete and total mess. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/05/23 Full Review Audience Member For years, Band of the Hand had me fooled with its "From the maker of Miami Vice" poster line. I always thought this was a Michael Mann directed movie and not one by one of the directors of several episodes of that show, Paul Michael Glaser, who also played Starsky. That said, Mann is one of th executive producers. Even knowing that, I kinda love this movie. It's all rather dumb — five teenage criminals get rehabilitated by Vietnam vet and Native American Joe Tegra (Stephen Lang, who is also in Mann's Manhunter, so maybe that's another reason I was confused): rival gang leaders Ruben Pacheco (Michael Carmine, who sadly died of AIDS when he was thirty) and Moss Roosevelt (Leon, Derice in Cool Runnings), as well as drug dealer Carlos Aragon (Danny Quinn, who was married at one time to co-star Lauren Holly, who plays Nikki), James Lee "J.L." MacEwen (John Cameron Mitchell — yes, the writer, director and star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch is in this movie and fights evil drug lords) who killed his father and car thief Dorcey Bridger (Al Shannon). After surviving training in the swamps and cleaning up their neighborhood, Joe is killed by gangsters who include Laurence Fishburne and James Remar as the big bad Nestor. Of course the Band of the Hand comes together and makes a plan that I am in amazed by as someone who loves wacky revenge plots. Wrter Leo Garren also directed and wrote the early 70s occult weirdness Hex, while co-writer Jack Baran wrote Great Balls of Fire! The craziest thing about this movie is that it has a Bob Dylan song written for it and he's backed by Tom Petty (who produced) and the Heartbreakers with backing vocals by Stevie Nicks. "We're gonna blow up your home of Voodoo And watch it burn without any regret We got the power, we're the new government You just don't know it yet" Let me say that again: Bob Dylan wrote a song for Band of the Hand. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review delysid d how much did i hate this movie? words cannot express that much hating Rated 1 out of 5 stars 12/17/21 Full Review Audience Member Band of the Hand is a great movie of the time. If you're a fan of Miami Vice, a real fan, this movie is directed by Paul Michael Glaser (Starsky) who directed many great episodes of Miami Vice in the first two seasons. Plus many of the Mann regulars who would get their start or would appear on Miami Vice also star in this film. Great imagery, great soundtrack, and Miami in the mid 80's just as Miami Vice was turning darker. Check it out. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member The juvenile delinquent version of 21 Jump Street. An absolutely horrible movie on every level. Several name actors who, later in their career learn to act, but this movie is clearly before their acting classes. The script seems like what aliens observing 80s Miami through only the lens of TV shows might conjure up. The direction seems to be non-existent and everybody is just making it up as they go along. The execution of the movie only looks good in comparison to the laughable premise of the movie itself. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member I have always liked this movie. Once you get past some of the bad acting its a decent movie. I have watched it for years. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Critics Reviews

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      Walter Goodman New York Times ... mainly whack, splat and kaboom, with fast cuts to a rock beat. Miami vise. May 21, 2003 Full Review Dave Kehr Chicago Reader It plays like a TV pilot filled out with a few cusswords and strokes of excess violence. Jan 1, 2000 Full Review David Elliott Copley News Service Dumb movies are with us always, but it isn't every week that we have a Band of the Hand. Flawlessly false, it breaks into the elite of the super-stupid. Jul 19, 2019 Full Review Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 2/5 Aug 12, 2005 Full Review Michael E. Grost Classic Film and Television Dullsville Rated: 1/5 May 28, 2005 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rated: 1/5 Feb 7, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis An Indian Vietnam veteran (Stephen Lang) trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
      Director
      Paul Michael Glaser
      Rating
      R
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Apr 16, 2012
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $4.9M
      Sound Mix
      Surround
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