Cross Mission

Lead-brained action/exploitation filmed in the Philippines by an all Italian crew and starring Richard Randall, Brigitte Porsh, Peter Hinz and creepy little Ratman (84) himself—Nelson De La Rosa. Low budget and pretty haphazard, much of the plot revolves around a renegade South American army general who wages a personal war against poppy field farmers and ‘contra’ jungle rebels, so you’d be right to expect green-inferno fire-fights, booby traps, helicopters, thrown grenades, shouts of “Nooooooooo!”, machine gun battles and bouts of blocky martial arts from CIA commando Randall and plucky reporter Porsh.

What you won’t expect is the fact that the army general (Hinz) practices black magic and can shoot lazer bolts from his hands. He can also summon up his very own personal mini-me (La Rosa) out of thin air and is searching for a mythical, lost city of gold called The Gates Of Paradise.
 
All odd elements that drag this otherwise ‘standard’ war flik out of the bargain bin and closer to the shelves that hold the ‘cult’. Director Brescia is also responsible for the mad and absurd space opera turd War Of The Robots (78).