While I can appreciate Cody's "journey" and the tragedy it entails, the whole thing swerves too far away from the original Streets of Fire, as far as Cody's character. Suspending disbelief, there are several changes I'd have made to it, were I doing this movie and still working with this material. First, I would cut out the whole introduction with its explanation. The movie would have been much better if the audience was just left guessing. I suppose since the movie was "unauthorized" the characters' names being changed some was to be expected, but in other ways, there were incursions onto the original material. It seems like it would've been better for instance, if Cody was just "Cody" as opposed to Cody Wilson. More nudity would've been better. The ending with Cody being let off the hook seemed bogus. My sense of justice was that even Kat was "better" than Cody because she hadn't been at it as long. Ashe seemed to be mostly a victim and not deserving of her fate. I don't question God on any of this, just to be straightforward, but do question the writers or director. The music in the movie was great whether the old or the new. There was a little too much included. If you did only what I said, you're really left with a short rather than a full movie. There was too much detail in the movie in some ways also. With the changes and some fleshing out, this could be an 8 or even 9 star movie. I still rate it a little above average. I watched the Direct Streaming version from 2015 off Albert Pyun's own site also. Just FYI.
Review of Road to Hell
