THE KILLING ZONE is an incompetent action film, with listless, paint-by-numbers plotting by writer-director Addison Randall.
When his brother is killed in prison, psychotic Mexican drug czar Carmen Vasquez (James Dalesandro) and his gang head north to L.A. for some revenge. For unofficial help, Detective Slade (Charles Sullivan) springs Garrett (Daron McBee) from an Arizona jail. He was incarcerated after an earlier
pursuit of Carmen, who five years earlier had tortured and disabled his then-cop uncle Sam (Armando Silvester). Sam now runs a bar in L.A. with his mate Jenny (Sydne Squine). Reunited with his girlfriend Tracy (Melissa Moore), Garrett, along with Sam and Slade, tracks Carmen along his trail of
killing (including Jenny) and ultimately eliminate him.
THE KILLING ZONE stars pumped-up blond hunk Daron McBee of "American Gladiators" fame, whose macho posturing, instead of acting ability, makes for a more beefcakey than usual hero. The obviously minuscule budget shows in poor stunts and action sequences, with especially laughably inept martial
arts battling. As usual in the genre, the most interesting character is villain Dalesandro, whom, as Slade succinctly puts it at one point, "even Khadafi is afraid of." Bearing copyright 1990, the movie was released direct-to- video. (Violence, profanity, nudity.) leave a comment