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Is south Miami this run-down in INVASION U.S.A.?

posted 15 years ago by jeffyoung1
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The movie is filmed in late 1984 and comes out in summer of 1985. It takes place in Miami.
Our man Chuck Norris drives through some of the worst-looking examples of advanced urban decay I've ever seen on screen.
South Miami looks like what comes after the fall of civilization. The dark, trash-strewn streets are lawless, filled with people hanging out on the street up to no good or with criminal intentions. The buildings are decayed and decrepit. Just driving through the streets at night brings on random attacks. The only other decayed urban areas that come close to matching the post-apocalyptic sights of urban Miami in this movie are to be found in Detroit, St. Louis, Chicago, inner-city Los Angeles and east Los Angeles, and others I can't think of right now...but when the sun goes down, the cops and all semblence of law and order disappears and the neighborhoods turn into Viet Cong territory.

[–] RobBase086-1 14 years ago

I have never been to Miami, Florida so I could not tell you on how it looks like at all. I know there are swamp areas and all there.

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[–] Cletus_Yokel 11 years ago

No.

[–] Lunarsilver629 8 years ago

I've never lived in Miami, but I've read that in the late 70s to late 80s the city had a serious problem with drugs and gang violence. One documentary I saw directly linked the spike in violence to Cuban refugees that sought asylum in the US. Granted most of the refugees were seeking asylum and a better life, but others took advantage of the policy Present Carter had instituted that allowed all Cuban refugees to stay "no questions asked" and came to Miami either to escape the law in Cuba or to smuggle drugs. Fidel Castro was quoted as saying he "flushed the toilet on the United States".

So in short, I don't know if Miami was run down as it was in this movie but it wasn't exactly a safe city at the time, either.