Enzo G. Castellari's cheesy super-low budget cartoon-like action fantasy which is just awful on so many levels; direction, acting, script, and production design. Basically it is a cheap rip-off of earlier genre classics such as Mad Max, The Warriors, and Escape from New York, and as bad as this film is it still does have some entertaining value to it. Taking place in a post-apocalyptic New York City where the Bronx has been officially declared "No Man's Land" devoid of any law because of the murderous street gangs that totally infest that borough. A tall, handsome, muscle-bound androgynous looking young Italian actor, the late Mark Gregory plays Trash the leader of motorcycle gang who rescues a wealthy and beautiful young female runaway named Ann, played by Stefania Girolami, from another brutal gang on roller-skates. Trash does not know it yet but Ann is the heiress to the presidency of the powerful Manhattan Corporation which controls 60% of the world's arms production, she runaway because she is a pacifist and wants nothing to do with them. But the Manhattan Corporation want her back at all costs, and has sent in a sadistic covert agent named Hammer, played by the late American character actor Vic Morrow in over-the-top paycheck performance which has to be the worst of his career, he stages a series of elaborate double-crosses among various gangs to start a war between them in order to grab Ann from Trash's protection. All this will lead to a climactic assault by a team of flamethrower-armed cops on horseback led by the evil Hammer to lay siege on the gangs and get Ann back. The terrible direction by Castellari is almost non-existing, as for the acting Fred Williamson delivers the best in this film with his fun turn as the "Ogre" king of all the gangs. The film's star Mark Gregory cannot act, he is pure eye-candy and acts with his good-looks and sexy lean muscular body, and Stefania Girolami delivers a truly wooden and lifeless performance as Ann. Stupid from beginning to end, but it is somewhat amusing as a bottom-of-the-barrel B-movie.
Review of 1990: The Bronx Warriors
