Graffiti Bridge (1990)1/2 (out of 4) This section is where I normally write a plot description but GRAFFITI BRIDGE doesn't have any sort of story so we will just say that Prince goes up against Morris Day.GRAFFITI BRIDGE is considered by some to be a semi-sequel to PURPLE RAIN but considering how awful this movie is I'd rather just pretend there's no connection. If anything this film proves that even a genius can have off moments because you've got to wonder what Prince was even trying to do here. The movie has no story. The movie has no acting. The movie has boring love interest in Ingrid Chavez. This is pretty much an extended music video but sadly even the music is bad.I think even the biggest Prince fan would have a hard time defending this one because there's just one bad scene after another and I'd argue that they're all quite pointless as well. Even worse is that all of the scenes appear to just be Prince showing off his wild costumes. The lack of any real story means you really don't care about the characters, their situations or anything that happens to them. It's easy to see why Prince stayed away from movies after this one.

The movie that put an abrupt stop to Prince's movie career. Oh, it's a bad movie, all right, but I don't quite get that it's one of the worst movies ever, or even that it's significantly worse than Purple Rain. Honestly, I think I prefer it, just a bit, to the 1984 film. It's far shorter and it's way goofier - doesn't take itself as seriously. Sure, Purple Rain - the album - is Prince's masterpiece, but the soundtrack to Graffiti Bridge, while more stuck in the late 80s/early 90s and less timeless, is pretty great, too. Plot-wise, the two films are pretty similar. Prince is the good guy, Morris Day is the bad guy. They both fight over a girl (here it's Ingrid Chavez, who is beautiful but lacks the charisma of Apollonia; she's most famous for co-writing the Madonna song "Justify My Love"). There are a lot of songs. The set design here is pretty fantastic, and gives the film a surreal feel. I'm surprised the film isn't more beloved by cult audiences. It's very weird. And laughable, but in a fun way. Morris Day threatened to be more interesting in Purple Rain, and he succeeds in being so here. Prince has far less presence.

This is a hideously, embarrassingly bad film. Prince spends much of it sliming about attempting to look enticing, wearing a truly disgusting beard and what looks like some kind of toddler's romper suit which gives him the appearance of just having arrived from a special needs pageant. Finding a spider in your bed would be sexier.As for the story, what story? This was an extended pop video for some shockingly bad music made by someone whose talent seems to have melted away faster than the polar ice caps. The sets looked fake; the spiritual aspect of the babble spouted by the characters was utterly ridiculous and the in-jokes and the feel of vanity on show was suffocating.I watched until the end, yes, but I enjoy car crashes.

This movie shocked me 1984 Purple Rain, Brilliant Movie, 1986 under the cherry Moon it was a decent movie I enjoy it, But Graffiti Bridge just plain sucked. The main reason I beleive it sucked was the whole spirital think he got into. The sets were as bad as a school play, the Script just was bad and if you hadn't notice had the same story line as Purple rain.The only positive thing about this movie was the Sound track it was Great.