Zona Violenta

My review was written in October 1991 after watching the film on a PM video cassette.

"The Killing Zone' Is a passable he-man adventure, released direct to video stores.

Dero nMcBee successfully graduated from the beefcake antic of the "American Gladiators" tv series to play a convict recruited from the chain gang by the Drug Enforcement Administration to go after a Mexican drug lord.

McBee's uncle, Armando Sylvestre, is also committed to getting the evil drug kingpin (played by James Dalesandro), who tortured him and left him for dead years back.

MeBee is a handsome surfer type, but is convincing in the fighting scenes, while Sylvestre ably fills the role usually played by William Smith, as the heor's role model. Feminine pulchritude is provided by rising B-pic starlet Melissa Moore.

Low-budgeter is well-directed by Addison Randall, but his script is too routine, especially in piling on extraneous motivation to get the good guys to whip into action.