ARIZONA ROAD is another last-ditch Italian thriller made when the genre had already dried up, although the little studios hadn't quite realised it. This one was shot by Fabrizio De Angelis in Arizona, hiding beneath his 'Larry Ludman' pseudonym. The story is the loosest, lowest budget kind of construct that you can imagine. The first half is a routinely slow boxing drama a la ROCKY, complete with bad fight choreography and cheesy overemoting. The second half turns into a FIRST BLOOD-style thriller with a hero who is imprisoned against his will, only to break out and go on a low rent rampage of revenge. With wooden acting, join-the-dots plotting and terrible dubbing, ARIZONA ROAD is pretty much as bad as it gets. A squinting David Warbeck feels embarrassed to even be showing up and who can blame him on the strength of this?
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