Watch: Band of the Hand 1986 123movies, Full Movie Online – In an attempt of resocialisation, five hopeless juvenile criminals, J.L., a silent boy with 80s fashion sense who murdered his abusive father, Ruben, a Latino gangbanger, Moss, a African American gangbanger and Ruben’s mortal enemy, Dorcey, an illiterate runaway car thief, and Carlos, a Cuban refugee turned slick yuppie drug dealer, are sent away from prison into the Everglades for a survival training under Vietnam war veteran, “Indian Joe” Tegra. When this is successful, they move back to Miami slums. However this offends the former illegal inhabitants of the rundown two story house they settle in, all loyal customers of drug baron Cream. The conflict escalates into a bloody gunfight, but what the boys don’t know is that Cream is just a henchman for the merciless Miami drug lord Nestor, who also has Carlos’ girl Nikki with him..
Plot: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
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Under-“Hand”ed…
Ladies and gentlemen, afficionados of the ’80s, fans of Michael Mann, allow me to introduce a movie most of you probably have never heard of.“Band of the Hand” came and went in 1986 like the millions of other movies of the ’80s, some with more plot and less style, others vice versa. But what makes this any different than the rest of its ilk?
Well, for starters, it was produced by Michael “Miami Vice” Mann (which accounts for the Miami setting and the Don Johnson clothing styles), it was directed by Hutch from TV’s “Startsky and Hutch” (Glaser), a LOT of familiar faces are featured in the cast (Holly, Fishburne, Remar, Graham and Ferrero and Smitrovich from “Vice”) and has that old “hey-let’s-get-the-kids-together-and-clean-up-the-neighborhood” plot transplanted into Reaganomic drug-enforcement sensibility.
On the down side, there is little to nothing in the ways of personality in the characters; they act just about the way you’d expect TV characters to act. Thing is – THIS IS A MOVIE! And while there are a lot of stretches where people say nothing and just do their thing while music plays on the sound-track for “emotional emphasis”, there are a few dozen of these scenes too many for my taste (hey guys, a little dialogue so we’ll know what people are thinking would be nice…you know, once in a while?). And WHY, in the name of every holy being you could possibly think of, did Mann think he had to ape EVERY SINGLE nuance from “Miami Vice”??? You know, Michael, you are allowed to do something different every once in a while.
Thank god he learned his lesson later on and actually did better movies like “The Last of the Mohicans” and “Heat”. Even 1981’s “Thief” with James Caan was done better in style as well as story. Of course, “Miami Vice” wasn’t on TV yet, either.
As it is, just a reminder of everything that was pastel in the ’80s. Other than that, this is a “Hand” that should be banned.
Four stars, mostly for the look. Maybe “Band of the Hand” would be better if you watched it with the sound turned off? I’ll have to try that sometime.
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 49 min (109 min)
Budget 8700000
Revenue 4865912
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Paul Michael Glaser
Writer Leo Garen, Jack Baran
Actors Stephen Lang, Michael Carmine, Lauren Holly
Country United States
Awards 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera Panaflex Camera and Lenses by Panavision
Laboratory Metrocolor, Hollywood (CA), USA (color)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm