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Crime Zone



Crime Zone - in which the class system is taken deadly seriously, but one cute guy has the courage to stand and do some crime.Okay, so, in the dystopian future, there is a strict class system, and some vague sort of points system, and men who work shitty jobs can be promoted to a higher level in society based on their performance at work. There are also women who work as prostitutes, and not really anywhere else (a few pervert cops), so I think this is all they can do in the future. And the society appears to be a closed municipality, but there is talk of another, better place. So, the main guy is a normal, white guy, level 0, or 0.5, and he works at a cryogenic freezing lab, where the service is purchased by wealthy, older folks, and they freeze themselves with their valuables. They are not in Fry tubes, they are like, hanging around like dry cleaning. So, Guy meets a nice prostitute woman while his gang-friends are maybe working up to raping her, because she is beating them at billiards. They fall in love! So, then they are approached by David Carradine, who offers them enough money to leave town, if they commit a robbery for him. Light crime, no homicide - seems easy enough.
      But no, they are caught red-handed, because Carradine set them up! Turns out, he is the police chief, and there is not enough crime to justify his team, I guess. Even though everything looks really shitty. Plus, this isn't even a surprise, as it was in the synopsis on the back of the box. Whatever. So, Carradine lets the two get away, they sneak onto a helicopter with their older friend, who used to be in the military. They get away, to this other city, that is supposed to be better, but when they get there, David Carradine is also the police chief there, and the city is empty and destroyed, and he's like, well, good luck, I told you it wasn't worth the trip. And then he just leaves them there. That's the ending.

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