Crime Zone (also known as Calles Peligrossas in Peru) is a 1988 American-Peruvian science fiction action film directed by Luis Llosa, written by Daryl Haney and starring David Carradine, Peter Nelson, Sherilyn Fenn, and Michael Shaner.
Carradine plays a mysterious stranger who recruits young lovers in an illicit romance (Nelson and Fenn) to commit a crime spree in a futuristic police state, while promising them an avenue for escape.
Bone, a former security guard who has recently lost his job at a cryogenics facility for not showing the proper respect to authority, meets Helen, a woman forced into prostitution at the government-sanctioned brothel.
They are observed by a mysterious man named Jason, who offers them passage to Frodan, another nation at war with Soleil, in exchange for stealing records from a secure facility disguised as a hospital.
Although suspicious of his offer, they accept and successfully deliver the information to Jason, who attempts to delay their reward and talk them into further criminal acts.
Helen and Bone briefly take Jason hostage, then flee to a safer location, where they discuss plans to rob wealthy citizens stored in the cryogenics facility and hijack a military helicopter that Alexi can pilot to Frodan.
At the military base, Helen and Bone, who managed to escape the facility, set Alexi free and use Creon as a distraction while they steal a helicopter.
[3] Academic Jeffrey Middents wrote that Crime Zone was better received in the United States than in its native Peru, whose critics rejected it as a Peruvian film.
[1] Michael Wilmington of the Los Angeles Times criticized the film as humorless and grim, but he wrote that it rises above its low budget roots to become a competent Blade Runner clone.
[4] Drive-in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs wrote, "Sure, we've all seen this story before, but have we seen it with 1,000 Peruvian extras in shiny silver space suits?