
Two young rebels live in a world where crime is eliminated in the post-nuclear fascist world of tomorrow, until they team up as Bonnie and Clyde-style outlaws and go on a crime spree.... (Full plot summary below)
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Two young rebels live in a world where crime is eliminated in the post-nuclear fascist world of tomorrow, until they team up as Bonnie and Clyde-style outlaws and go on a crime spree.
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| User ReviewMichael WDavid Carradine is so good at his job (Police Chief of futuristic society) he must recruit criminals to justify his job and continue to collect a paycheck. More neon here than a Miami Vice episode; Michael Mann would have really made this look even slicker. |
| User ReviewPaul FI've learned a lot of things about the future from watching science fiction films. I've learned that everyone will either wear bulky uniforms or skimpy rags, that the cities will be simultaneously bright with neon and dingy with smoke, and that there will be lots of dust everywhere. Plus, spunky women with minds of their own that rebel against the state will have short, really light hair and go topless at the drop of a hat. And when that topless spunky woman with attitude is Sherilyn Fenn, that's not entirely a bad thing. In the final days of Roger Corman's Concorde films that managed to get theatrical releases, there was [i]Crime Zone[/i], in which Fenn plays Helen, a tough prostitute in the middle of the rough-and-tumble Dead End Zone, an area controlled by cops. Helen meets Bone, another rugged individual type who's just gotten fired off the force for not being very good at his job. At least he's supposed to come off like a rugged loner, but Peter Nelson's performace and the dialogue he's given make him seem more like a loveable loser. The two of them get involved, despite the fact that the law prevents them, and they're looking for a way out of the city. They're approached by a cigar-chomping David Carradine, who offers to shuttle them out in exchange for pulling a heist, which they do, setting off the Bonnie-and-Clyde-but-in-a-dystopian-future-where-billiard-balls-look-like-cat-toys plot. It's mildly engaging, fairly paced and decently acted enough to be worth a watch. Almost. Unfortunately, the makers of [i]Crime Zone[/i] seem so convinced that they've got such great sparring dialogue between Helen and Bone that they spend a good portion of the time with it--which would be fine, if they had spent have as much time coming up with responses as they obviously did with non-sequitors. For example, a female cop makes Bone drop his pants, and then asks him, "Is that your normal size?" Okay, think about possible responses to this, keeping in mind that you're a wise-ass who doesn't like cops and your name is Bone. Got something? Good. Now, let's compare this to what Bone actually does, which is.... ...um... ...absolutely nothing. Okay, so nobody's expecting genius from a Roger Corman-produced post-apocalypse movie. But [i]Crime Zone[/i] has enough interesting concepts in it, like the reasons behind Carradine's character's actions, that watching them not get competently explored is downright frustrating. It's slightly more brainy than the average direct-to-video futuristic thriller, but it becomes so convinced of its' own slightly-better-than-averageness that it never bothers to be anything more than that, and that's a damn shame. Director Louis Llosa went on to make [i]Sniper[/i] and[i] Anaconda[/i], and he manages to show enough talent here to justify his chance to make big-budget films, albeit goofy Hollywood films with Tom Berenger and/or killer snakes. [i]Crime Zone[/i], after all, is still worth a look, and it's fun to watch Carradine spew out all of his dialogue from behind a cigar, but there's not enough here to please anyone but the most devoted post-apoc or Sherilyn Fenn fan. |
| User ReviewWrik SOf bad movies, few take the winner's podium like this movie has.. Absolutely no sense in this exercise of movie making.. |
| User ReviewMark NTedious and muddled from start to finish. Slightly amusing in an 80's movie kinda way but for 88 you'd expect something more imaginative and skillful than this heavy handed plot. |
| User ReviewJed DNot David Carradine's finest moment. Deffinetly a Corman flick. Lots of Neon and lots of Blah. Great quote though "Show me your dick!" |