Danger Zone III: Steel Horse War

This film essentially begins with "Detective Wade Olsen" (Jason Williams) becoming devastated over the news that his girlfriend has died in the operating room from wounds received at the hands of the psychopathic biker named "Grim Reaper" (Robert Random). So, suffering from a sense of guilt, Detective Olsen decides to resign from the Los Angeles Police Department and ride off into the desert to collect his thoughts. However, upon learning that Grim Reaper has escaped from prison and is once again on the loose, Wade knows what he has to do--and this time he intends to finish what he started once and for all. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this third film in the series wasn't quite on the same level as its immediate predecessor due to poor writing, a lack of suspense and a rather tedious plot overall. Talk about going through the motions. Likewise, the addition of the ridiculous character known as "Rainmaker" (Barne Subkowski) didn't help matters either. In any case, while I don't consider this to be a terribly bad film necessarily, I wasn't exactly impressed by it, and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Slightly below average.

I saw the whole set up from the start, the game Reaper was playing, and along comes, our hero, an ex cop, now a biker intent on tracking him down. This B movie isn't bad movie fare, with a bit of bad acting, and better strength in it's leads, as our escapee, Reaper. Is now riding with his reunited bad biker pack, who are after this find involving confederate medals. We come across a tasty blonde, some beautiful models on a shoot. And a score of busty beauties in tasty lingerie, assisting this professor with an interesting face, who's beaten Reaper to his rich rewards Though this is a patchy, flawed, with some pathetic moments, kind of flick, it is quite fun. The video cover of our star actor, with a black busty babe, we only meet her in the last two minutes of film. But Wade is a real hero we can vouch for, and to who the revealed father figure reading our movie, through comic, I really admired. As I did, Wade's methods of getting information, via tattoo insignia. The photographer's brazen words to two d**khead bikies, interrupting a model shoot, I couldn't believe. This was quite an entertaining surprise, but still, B movie is B movie. Quite violent in bits too.

A good movie to watch with a blonde in one hand and a bottle of beer in the other. It's loosely a sequel to a pair of earlier "Danger Zone" movies but this one stands well enough on its own. The setting is a desolate stretch of desert (filmed near Trona, California) where a band of renegade Confederates may have buried a supply of gold during the Civil War. Modern-day criminal "Grim Reaper" kills two cops as he rounds up his old motorcycle-gang to find the gold. His nemesis, an ex-lawman named Wade Olsen, tries to thwart him. Thrown into the mix are some swimsuit models and a bevy of college girls on an archaeological dig.

Jason Williams (who put the "flesh" into "Flesh Gordon") pushes the laconic he-man myth a bit too hard but he's an adequate hero and grits his teeth nicely while being dragged behind a motorcycle. Bob Random also suffices as the villain and the horsewhipping he gives a fellow biker is far more vivid than the one shown in the first "Danger Zone."

Juanita Ranney returns as the aptly-named "Skin."