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Gary Daniels, Art Camacho, Alisha Das, Vanessa Hampton, Dennis Keiffer ...( see more  see more... ) , Chad McQueen

In the year 2007, crime has risen at an exponential rate. Once highly populated metropolises such as Los Angeles are no longer inhabitable. These cities have transformed into "Hell Zones," ruled by vi...( read more  read more... )olent street gangs. The Hell Zone, formerly called the "Zone of Personal Freedom," is a safe-haven for criminal warpaths everywhere. This Hell Zone in LA is controlled by a criminal mastermind named Drexal (Joseph Ruskin). For the sake of entertaining his crowds of decadent losers and underlings, Drexal has staged a series of lethal, no-holds-barred matches in the "Death Ring," where the winner takes all of the glory...while the defeated one shall lose his self-respect (or maybe just his head). Meanwhile, two brave cops, Braniff (Chad McQueen), and Sledge (Gary Daniels) must risk their badges...and their lives when they enter Los Angeles's "Hell Zone." They must fight for their lives in order to expose an alleged "black market" involving the sale of counterfeit AIDS vaccines. Will these two men triumph against all odds in the Hell Zone alive or will they pay with their lives?

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Directed by: Richard Pepin

Release Date: January 19, 1994

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DVD Release Date: May 18, 2004

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  • bringbackmrdirp
    October 20, 2009
    bringbackmrdirp
    The title doesn`t make any sense, it`s about cage fighting. It even had a continunity screwup that I noticed.
  • gravityandgrace2003
    February 25, 2009
    gravityandgrace2003
    Honestly, I was expecting this to be terrible, even for a bad B movie. Boy, was I wrong. This movie is hella fun. A truly shitty Robocop rip-off with Chad McQueen in the starring role, 'Firepower' is highly recommended. It's kinda post-apocalyptic, but not really. The team of Dan...( read more)iels and McQueen wear those uniforms that all the police officers in Robocop did, so I think it was set in the future, but I could be wrong. A lot of people complain that Gary Daniels is the "sidekick," but that's not necessarily a bad thing in a movie like this. McQueen plays the straight man well, and Daniels gets to relish his role as a wise-cracking super cop. He was basically a poor man's Goose from Mad Max. The plot is all over the place, and what is the focal point at one moment in the movie will be completely forgotten until much later. The movie can't decide if it wants to be a post-apocalyptic buddy cop thriller or an underground fight movie. Of interesting note is that Jim Hellwig (now Jim Warrior) is here. For all you wrestling fans, Hellwig is notorious for being the unstable former professional wrestler-turned conservative right wing nut known as the Ultimate Warrior- once the biggest wrestling superstar of the early 90s. It was awesome to see him in this as much as he was- I was actually expecting he was only gonna be in it for about 10 minutes with the old producer bait and switch, but we actually get to see ol' Jimmy kick some royal ass in the death ring. Ol' Hellwig doesn't say much in this, and when he does, he just sounds like a more coherent version of the Ultimate Warrior. When he's in the ring or beating the crap out of good guys, he's not doing anything fancy, just the same stuff he did in the wrestling ring, complete with snarls and shouts. It's hilarious. Damn. It was hard to find things to complain about in this movie- the only thing I could think of was that the plot went from trying to take down Hellwig's character (the Swordsman) and his crew, and get some phony AIDS vaccine off the streets, to Daniels and McQueens' characters competing in an underground fight competition. I guess it is all kinds of hilarious that "the future" in this movie is now two years past. I'd give this movie five stars just for the five minute montage of Daniels doing the splits and the camera focusing in on his chest, but I've decided to be a little more even handed. Wow. Nothing to bitch about here- rent it, you'll like it. LOL
  • ynaficy
    April 17, 2008
    ynaficy
    Check out Gary's latest film, set for 2008 shoot: http://imdb.com/title/tt1180174/
  • tpb001
    November 8, 2007
    tpb001
    I admit, I actually saw a couple of the lousy Daniels movies. I am ashamed.
  • FuturistiK
    October 29, 2007
    FuturistiK
    This is a cool action movie with the Ultimate warrior chewing up all the scenery...
  • frecissimo19
    December 8, 2006
    frecissimo19
    THERE IS MOVIES ND MUVIE... THIS IS THE MOVIE

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