Jeff Fahey stars as a mean spirited cop who hates hip hop (Something he shares in common with me.) however when various rappers are being murdered, it becomes obvious that someone has a vendetta against The Hound a renegade producer who plays hardball with various rappers (Willie Carpenter) however it's not him, rather it goes all the way back to the hound's disco roots. However what really ticks Jeff Fahey off is that his partner (Kenneth Tigar) is killed in the shootout. Fahey swears vengeance and along the way defines disco inferno. I myself was always into heavy metal, so I was never much for Hip Hop, however The Underground takes it's fairly silly plot and somehow makes it even more gleefully moronic than it sounds. However the silliness here is amplified by the clichés such as Fahey's troubled marriage with a supermodel. (Oh boy.) A new partner who is more into the hip hop scene and a disco villain so laughably improbable it just becomes enjoyable in a guilty pleasure way. Picking this up in the bargain bin section, in what marks as my binge into unknown PM titles that you find for 4.99, this has to be the silliest of all the PM titles. For goodness sake the villain is a ticked off disco artist, so that alone is why I love it. Jeff Fahey though seems out of place though, the movie would've been better with a younger actor, still I love it.
* * out of 4-(Fair)
* * out of 4-(Fair)