This movie should have starred this man...
http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0005377/
With him (who really is from the Bronx), the character's coolness would have been believable. And with him, a director who'd done more than Playboy videos, a writer who knew how to plot a movie properly, better actors and a title which made more sense this movie might have been something. As is, however, it's a Plan 9 From Outer Space for the 90s.