Very Cool!!!

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

The two actors in this musical mish-mash are Tony Curtis and Michael Parks. The rest of the cast could best be described as actor wannabees. Curtis definitely has the best lines, including this gem. "You screw with me and I'll play stick ball with your nuts." Michael Parks giving bouncer lessons is also memorable. The lesbian nightclub and a waterbed filled with goldfish are not something you see everyday. Basically "Club Life" isn't much more than music videos interspersed with drug use and violence. The story, what little there is, mostly leads to dead ends. Definitely watchable for Curtis and Parks fans, others might want to look elsewhere. - MERK

My friends and I raid cheap video stores around LA and pick up TONS of titles like this. There's nothing like straight to video 80s B movies, they fu*kin rule.This one absolutely did not disappoint. The best aspect of one of these films is that they always manage to bring in one washed up star for the "heavy" role, or some juicy part. Amazingly, they managed to get Tony Curtis for this picture.I had the feeling that the entire thing was an excuse for the director to call his friends and go "Holy shi*, I got Tony Curtis to be in my movie!" The whole thing seems like Tony just walked on set, threw away his pages and ignored all direction and just said "Im not doing it like that, ya motherfu*ker. Im doing it THIS way." And bless his heart for it, because he RULES in this. Of course this was a schlocky movie for him to do, and its no doubt Tony's a great actor. But to watch him in something like this, surrounded by a bunch of other horrendous actors makes him shine twice as bright. It's kind of like being a mediocre looking chick in a group of fatties. Any other night, nobody would look twice at you. But tonight, you're a STAR. He's such a bad ass in it, I loved it. It made me wish he'd go for meatier roles like this in real movies in his older age.Micheal Parks is his usual, bad ass "Nick Nolte before Nick Nolte" self. He spews tons of great B movie dialog, and says "got-damn" better than most actors in the history of Hollywood. He actually pushes a line of coke in front of the main character and goes "Be somebody." YES! He also has one of the most ridiculous death scenes I've seen in a while, and one of the best funeral sequences ever captured on celluloid.And thank god, thank GOD they didn't let the neon nun-chucks go. You see in bad movies, often there will be some kind of awesome aspect alluded to or featured on the box cover that never really lives up to it's potential; a new kind of gun, some kind of crazy car, etc. (Think of the Balabushka pool cue from Color of Money; some kind of weapon or item that makes the character special) They'll tease you with it for hours, but due to budget constraints it will either fall by the wayside or wind up being totally lame.In this one, they keep showing these awesome glow in the dark nun-chucks. And in the 3rd act, he does indeed use them to their full potential. I was so happy. This movie rocks man, if you're into 80s cheese this one does not disappoint. It's kind of like Roadhouse before the Roadhouse.

I bought this film at a flea market for a dollar as it looked good and I heard Warhol film graduate Pat Ast was in it as I loved Ast in Reform School Girls and Motley Crue's video "Smoking in the Boys Room" plus Warhol's film "Heat" was better than any of Warhol's past work. I also knew that Sal Landi from "Savage Streets" was in it too. I loved the movie and glad I own it. It was a look at a bouncer's life named Tank which was played by Mike Parks from Tarantino's Kill Bill flicks working in dance clubs. Landi's character was in one scene only but a big scene as he tries to make a deal with the club owner with a bunch of other guys. Ast plays an owner at a sleazy rough lesbian bar who hires the bouncer. Ast was a lesbian in real life so she could relate to her role as her character's name was Butch and butchy attitude she had but she wasn't nasty like her role Edna in "Reform School Girls" or in the Crue's music video. She had a supporting role in it and her roles were bigger than in her other films like "Foul Play" or "Homer & Eddie" So she had known roles in all three, "Heat", "Reform School Girls" and this one. Also there's a great soundtracks by 80's music in this film and we also get to see Dee Wallace sing in it. Tank has to deal with some killer thugs in the film who killed his trainer and then at the end killed the owner played by Tony Curtis. It was very sad to see that. Also the closing credits came rolling down instead of rolling up which was interesting too. In the beginning when you see the opening credits and the dirt bike racing it looks like it was going to be a really bad Z-grade film but it isn't. If you love 80's dance films this one is for you, you won't be disappointed.

A movie like Club Life leaves little to be desired. With a story of a small town boy coming to a big city to find work and only finding trouble, it's hard to stay cheerful. The depressing manner of death of new friends, drug addiction of your high school sweetheart, and bad jobs make this story's end morose and sad. After watching this, there is not much to be proud of in life. On the positive side, the movie provides an excellent depiction of how to snort cocaine, beat up people, and how to get beat up yourself by those who are stronger than you. The movie's moral: don't go to Hollywood. My moral: don't watch these kinds of movies.