Brotherhood of Justice / Terminal Rush / South Bronx Heroes / Nightmare at Bittercreek / Spenser: Pale Kings & Princes

I remember watching this when I was a pre-teen years ago, absolutely in love with Brat packesque heart throbs...of course Keanu Reeves was top of the list, along with Kiefer and Billy Zane -- WHAT!!! This brought back such nostalgic memories...

As a fan of Keanu Reeves, I love this early TV movie. He shows his talent even at an early age in his career. The storyline is very relavent for today's teens also. Keanu plays Derek a leader at his high school. He forms a group of guys to help stop sone of the violence in his school. As with all things that start out with a moral purpose, it suddenly turns into the violence they were trying to prevent. But Derek's character comes through as he knows this is all wrong. So he turns himself in and confesses all. They are all arrested which is fitting for their crimes. Recommend this movie highly. 11-29-2015

I dont' really care for the other 6 movies and I am stumped and why a movie with a presumed 17-yr old Keanu Reeves has a jacket cover of a Reeves at about 25?

Keanu Reeves never let's you down.

Keanu Reeves was quite young when this movie was made, perhaps it's the 70s film making or perhaps it's a poor script. This film is not terrible, but it's not great either. A true Keanu Reeves fan might want to see this to better know the actor, but your not missing anything by not seeing it.

Random thoughts about this film---1. Important forgotten slice of film history, as seeing it makes you suspect that James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow saw it together, each getting casting and respective ideas for their blockbusters to follow (Billy Zane is a most excellent bad guy, Keanu plants seeds for Point Break with some fight action, reveals gorgeous bod in 80s-style workout clothes, and throws a football for 1st time ever onscreen--also we see people committing crimes in silly rubber masks. Oh my gosh and I almost forgot, there was actually a VIA CON DIOS!!). 2. Thought it was inversely cast for a typical teen angst film; would have been predicable to cast blond Kiefer as the well-heeled football type and Keanu as the working-class dude who keeps his nose down; glad they went the other way. Keanu's character was actually complex; appreciate the nuance of Derek's moral position. He is paired again with Lori Loughlin from The Night Before, and she's good--has this intelligence to her delivery which sets her apart from typical most-popular-girl-in-high-school vibe.

Good movie showing how trying to do the right thing the wrong way only leads to more wrong. It also shows how adults can lead young people down a dark path without meaning to by there actions or words.

Acting was good, hard lesson was learned. Too bad a movie had to be made about this subject. Leave justice to the proper authorities.

Two of the five movies in this grab-bag selection of low and (and very-low) budget films are enjoyable enough. The full array of these motion pictures are "Brotherhood of Justice", "Nightmare at Battercreek", "South Bronx Heroes", "Spenser: Pale Kings and Princes", and "Terminal Rush", making for a mixed assortment of crime, disaster-crime, and action films, plus the two films which are not in any of those genres and which, partly because of that, are the stand-outs, namely the first- and third-listed of them."Brotherhood of Justice" receives the star billing and with good reason: it has a true celebrity, Keanu Reeves, in the cast in one of his earliest movies (this one "made-for-television"), about some high-school football jocks who decide to form a vigilante brigade to maintain order and to reduce vandalism on their school's campus. This is the only film of the five which is relatively low-budget but also truly well and fully professionally produced and carefully edited. Among other good things, the film image quality beautifully conveys the lovely natural and suburban scenery of Northern California. Obviously, teens are too young and immature for the kind of social intervention which they attempt, which, unsurprisingly, turns out badly, and which is the kind of thing that often goes awry even when adults get involved in such antics.Keanu Reeves turned twenty-two in 1986, the year of release for "Brotherhood of Justice", but he looks very much the adolescent, so fresh-faced, beautifully boyish, and utterly nubile and appealing, as, indeed, he would continue to look for about another decade of his life, well into, chronologically, handsome early middle-age. The visual presentation of this edition of the film is misleading, portraying Keanu as photographed at ca. forty-something and posing as either an adult criminal or crime-buster. It's a nice photo, though, however inappropriate for the film's more youthful Keanu-content. The casting, of Keanu Reeves and of the other young actors, works well since the film's script does not probe depths of emotion, motivation, or of psychology which in any way would overtax the skills of young actors beginning to make their way in cinema.The only other film of interest to this viewer (caring little for the crime/thriller sort of cinematic fare that the movies constitute over which this review passes in silence) is "South Bronx Heroes". The subject matter even nowadays (perhaps especially in recent decades, for that matter) is child pornography, the exploitation of alike young and pubescent children, both boys and girls, for photographic sex trade. There is, thankfully, no explicit depiction of juvenile nudity, but that is really about what the film deals. Taking place mostly in an exceedingly bleak urban setting, the little boy at the beginning of the film, the eleven-years-old girl, and fourteen-years-old boy are all cute kids who act out the drama of their exploitation very capably for their respective ages. As for the adults, they pass the grade in their parts also, even if their acting tends to be rather brittle in character.The story of "South Bronx Heroes" and how it comes across onscreen is often very quirky and exudes what is supposed to pass for 1980s "hip" agreeably enough (looking, though, more like something from the previous decade). Less suitably, the action is a bit too episodic to make following the story an easy feat for much of the time. Resort to IMDb's very brief description of the action helped to gain bearings to understand what was taking place early in the film; the remainder, with some effort, could be figured out unaided well enough. The images on the screen in "South Bronx Heroes" are bleary, lacking in clear focus, although whether that is due to the film itself or to the DVD's source material for it, and editing (if any) thereof, this reviewer cannot attest.In this economy-oriented release (Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 34644 being the North American edition viewed) there are no extras with the various films and no subtitles, either, for any of them. The DVD is worth it for fans of Keanu Reeves, many of whom, however, may tend to purchase an edition of "Brotherhood of Justice" alone, without the additional mediocre cinematic works found on Echo Bridge's DVD.

Very good movie for Keanu's fans. This copy as it contains as well 4 other movies is not of the highest video and audio quality. Brotherhood of Justice though is just about good enough to warrant to be remastered in a better format. It stands alone quite well. It is a fun story, though not a comedy, well acted and portrays High School as many would remember.

Good condition! Came in a timely fashion.

didn,t purchase it

DVD jacket deceptive. Keanu Reeves is a young teen in the movie. Jacket portrays him as present day 40 to 50yrs. Movie itself was ok. Other movies on DVD were ok. Somewhat slow moving